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Rest Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- You always think, 'Oh, if only I had a little chalet in the mountains! How great that would be and I'd do all this writing'…
- Home is where the heart is, I thought now, gathering myself together in Betty's Luncheonette. I had no heart any more, it had been broken;…
- All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood to wine, their…
- The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary…
- Because you may think a bed is a peaceful thing, Sir, and to you it may mean rest and comfort and a good night's sleep.…
- They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did…
- Because you are never here but always there, I forget not you but what you look like You drift down the street in the rain,…
- So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually…
More Rest Quotes
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- I've committed to surfing the rest of my life. — Lance Armstrong
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are… — Jane Austen
- Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the… — Edward Bach
- The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not… — Gaston Bachelard
- Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be… — Francis Bacon
- Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted… — Erykah Badu
- The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which… — Walter Bagehot
- Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. — Pearl Bailey
- Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of… — Russell Baker