Rests Quotes

452 Rests quotes by 365 unique authors

The responsibility which rests upon man is proportional to the ability which he possesses and the opportunity which he faces. Perhaps that responsibility is no… — Unknown Author
The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws operate. It is the scientist's… — Edward Teller
It is my view that our society can be no more stable than the foundation of individual family units upon which it rests. Our government,… — James Dobson
There is one view of the subject which ought to have its influence on those who espouse doctrines which strike at the authoritative origin and… — James Madison
When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights,… — Ronald Reagan
The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered by me [as President] according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain… — Thomas Jefferson
The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in… — William J. Brennan
Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way. — May Sarton
Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him. — Unknown Author
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth. — Nicolas Chamfort
It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests. — Van Jones
The entire future of marriage rests with Justice Anthony Kennedy, the man who declared in Citizens United that corporations are people with constitutional rights. I… — Stephen Colbert
The God within is your Spiritual Heart. Your Soul. And in that individual Soul, rests God- rests the One. Go into your soul and your… — Ram Dass
Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other… — Wallace Stegner
Beauty rests on necessities. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride. — Vince Lombardi
Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is… — Soren Kierkegaard
All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob. — Edward Abbey
Nietzsche's break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple. — Gilles Deleuze
Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action constitutes 'life'. I recognized that… — Piet Mondrian
Faith is not a blind, irrational conviction. In order to believe, we must know what we believe, and the grounds on which our faith rests. — Charles Hodge
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand. — George Henry Lewes
Innate sensuousness rarely has any desire for accuracy, no desire for precise information. It basks in sunshine, bathes in color, dwells in a sense of… — Theodore Dreiser
[Mr. Gifford] made it much his business to deliver the people of God from all those false and unsound rests that by nature we are… — John Bunyan
It is my conviction that if any professional biologist will take adequate time to examine carefully the assumptions upon which the macro-evolution doctrine rests, and… — Dean H. Kenyon

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