Rests Quotes
452 Rests quotes by 365 unique authors
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The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing ‘money’ with ‘wealth’…Real…
— Henry Hazlitt
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My dear friend, Bonnie, is a person who rests and, consequently, earned my ire early in our relationship. Her ability to rest eventually taught me…
— Sue Thoele
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All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than…
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours,…
— Mark Hertsgaard
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A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them,…
— Albert Schweitzer
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The New Testament rests itself for credulity and testimony on what are called prophecies in the Old Testament, of the person called Jesus Christ; and…
— Thomas Paine
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The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his…
— Herbert Hoover
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Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can…
— Cyril Connolly
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The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work.
— Paul Cezanne
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A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of…
— Ben Shahn
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The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.
— Michael Schudson
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Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at the bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law that…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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I cannot persuade myself that without love to others, and without, as far as rests with me, peaceableness toward all, I can be called a…
— Saint Basil
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May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man…
— H P Lovecraft
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If her security rests upon her alliance with a man, another woman may take that man away; therefore women have no unity between themselves.
— Frederick Lenz
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Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.
— Ouida
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White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and…
— Honore de Balzac
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Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.
— James Anthony Froude
Who Wrote These Rests Quotes
365 authors contributed a total of 452 Rests Quotes, led by these top contributors: