Restless Quotes

357 quotes by 314 authors

A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as… — Stephen Greenblatt
America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed… — Edna Ferber
That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things,… — Frederick Jackson Turner
God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights follow in bitter… — Malcolm Lowry
Those of us who witness the degraded state of the environment and the suffering that comes with it cannot afford to be complacent. We continue… — Wangari Maathai
IBM doesn't want its people to get frustrated and restless because it has them reaching for carrots they can't quit — Buck Rodgers
Knowing that we are fulfilling God's purpose is the only thing that gives rest to the restless human heart. — Charles Colson
The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with… — Lawrence Durrell
Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been defeated many times… — Emile M. Cioran
It is so rare...to find a complete person, with a soul, a heart and an imagination; so rare for characters as ardent and restless as… — Hector Berlioz
All that you ever need to know about genitals is that they are made up of flesh, blood, and millions of tiny, restless nerve endings… — Julia Serano
The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars. — Elissa Schappell
It is no easy task to walk this earth and find peace. Inside of us, it would seem, something is at odds with the very… — Ronald Rolheiser
Love is a circle that doth restless move in the same sweet eternity of love. — Robert Herrick
I went out to testify in front of the Ways and Means Committee out in Congress on open free trade to China. Now, this would… — Jesse Ventura
We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I call the aerial… — Sam Keen
Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers. Feel motivated and energized,… — Robert Greene
The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction… — Stephen Jay Gould
The close observer soon discovers that the teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of… — Nathan M. Pusey
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless. — Minoru Yamasaki

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