Literary Quote by Scott Toney

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished…

— Terry Eagleton

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!

— William Collins

Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.

— Ovid

“O God, who is ever at work and ever at rest. May I be ever at work and ever at rest.”

— Saint Augustine

If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad.

— Sylvia Plath

Give it your best, you don't have to be like the rest.

— God

If you have to, take a break, go to your corner, get some sleep, but don't ever give up. You will get there.

— Colin Cunningham

In work we act under the predominant motive of external, rational necessities; in pleasure, under the predominant motive of other, equally general necessities of…

— Nikolay Chernyshevsky

“My parents took us to dinner but we came back early. Tomorrow was to be a day of days and we must get a…

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

“I am at rest and remaining.”

— Rumi

“The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.…

— Wendell Berry

For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night's rest.

— Judith Guest