Restless Quotes

357 quotes by 314 authors

I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long. — Buffalo Bill
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. — Charlotte Bronte
Blakes Hotel in South Kensington was a particular favourite of mine during what I affectionately think of as my Restless Years. — Julie Burchill
The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100… — Smedley Butler
In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were… — Julia Child
More than any other nation on Earth, America has constantly drawn strength and spirit from wave after wave of immigrants. In each generation, they have… — William J. Clinton
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting… — Victor Cherbuliez
A talkative soul lacks both the essential virtues and intimacy with God. A deeper interior life, one of gentle peace and of that silence where… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting… — George Eliot
A man's body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever. — Michael Caine
The peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of god seems to be secure and deep, only so long as the presence of man… — Thomas de Quincey
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where… — Tryon Edwards
Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized. — Ken Keyes Jr.
A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart,… — George Whitefield
At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first… — Abraham Flexner
I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who,… — Lord Chesterfield
Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet my axe is restless in… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction cannot give up the thought… — Zhuangzi
Man wants two contradictory things together: he wants peace and he is ambitious. It is impossible. If you are ambitious, then your mind is bound… — Rajneesh

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