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188 Repose quotes by 147 unique authors

Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or… — Tom Hodgkinson
The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose,… — Thomas Merton
Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art . — Robert Smithson
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. — Henry David Thoreau
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. — Frank Lloyd Wright
A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature. — Loretta Young
He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose: for one moment… — Peter Ackroyd
These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of… — Abigail Adams
He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from… — Euripides
Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his repose, by the… — Hermann Hesse
Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both… — Victor Hugo
This dim coolness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that is to say… — Marcel Proust
Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and… — Michel de Montaigne
We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest; And deal full many a thoughtless blow, To those who love us best. Laugh,… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Jane: Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life-if ever I thought a good thought-if ever I prayed a sincere and… — Charlotte Bronte
It is always the way of events in this life,...no sooner have you got settled in a pleasant resting place, than a voice calls out… — Charlotte Bronte
For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn… — Bram Stoker
Consider the silent repose of the sausage as compared to the aggressiveness of bacon. — Tom Robbins
These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a… — Abigail Adams
The girl in the mirror caught my eye briefly...It is an uncanny feeling, that rare occasion when one catches a glimpse of oneself in repose.… — Kate Morton
...The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may… — Alexandre Dumas
When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the… — Emile M. Cioran

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