Quotes about rest
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“What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?”

Source: White Oleander

“But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war?”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

War, Stupidity, Fear

“The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands, but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you. We would rather be just like, and have that be all right.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“A postcard. Neat handwriting fills the rectangle.

Half my days I cannot bear to touch you.
The rest of my time I feel like it doesn’t matter if I will ever see you again. It isn’t the morality, it’s how much you can bear.

No date. No name attached.”

Michael Ondaatje book The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

Feeling, Time

“Jas, you are three hundred miles away. You would have to have nunga-nungas the size of France for Jock to be able to rest his hand on them.”

Louise Rennison book Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas

Source: Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas

“If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

God, World, Time

“Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

Way, Time

“No stories or explanations,' Finnikin had once told him. 'When it comes to women, straight into an apology and you will find the rest of your life bearable.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

Life, Women

“If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive?… Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Rest against my heart. Let me watch over your dreams. And know that tomorrow morning, and every morning after that, you'll awaken next to someone who loves you.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Married By Morning

Love, Dreams, Heart

“There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers (2001)
Variant: There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Men, Learning

“Some times I think this whole world
Is one big prison yeard
Some of us are prisoners
The rest of us are guards”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

World, Thinking, Time

“A bluebear has twenty-seven lives. I shall recount thirteen-and-a-half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest. A bear must have his secrets, after all; they make him seem attractive and mysterious.”

Walter Moers The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

Source: The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

Secret, Books

“Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue though it may take some time before they can taste it.”

Shannon Hale The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

People, Time

“It's going to give you nightmares for the rest of your wasted life."
Oh, my God, I was so badass. It was all I could do not to give a”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

Life, God

“Alan Blunt got in touch with me and asked me to put you up here for the rest of the week, to pretend that you're my son. I have to say, you don't look anything like me."

"I don't look anything like myself either," Alex said.”

Anthony Horowitz book Point Blanc

Source: Point Blank

“Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain”

Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian

World

“Mulch's tongue lolled out, resting on the centaur's neck. "Mmm," he mumbled around his tongue. "Horse. Tasty"

"Let's go," said Foaly nervously. "Let's go right now.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Atlantis Complex

Horse

“No," I say, looking up at Griggs. "It's actually because my heart belongs to someone else." And if I could bottle the look on his face, I'd keep it by my bedside for the rest of my life.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

Life, Heart

“We must accept our pain
Change what we can
and laugh at the rest”

Camille Paglia (1947) American writer

Pain, Change

“I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it's medically conservative to cut people open or put them on powerful cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of their lives … Animal products are the main culprit in what is killing us. We can absolutely live better lives without them.”

Dean Ornish (1953) American physician

Quoted in Roberto Suro, "Hearts and Minds", New York Times Magazine (29 December 1991).

People, Understanding, Animals

“I want to be with one person in my life. I want to know that the guy I spend the rest of my life with is the first person I share something so intimate and exciting with.”

Randa Abdel-Fattah (1979) contemporary Australian writer of novels for young adults

Source: Does My Head Look Big In This?

Life, Guy, Personality

“He looked like a man who'd invite you to rest your head on his shoulder while he made everything bad go away.”

Jennifer Ashley (1974) American author

Source: Pride Mates

“Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside… It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.”

Sarah Dessen book Keeping the Moon

Variant: Being self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside. It starts with the rest of the world and leads back to you.
Source: Keeping the Moon

World, Confidence, Self-confidence

“I want to marry a [guy], so i can rest my soul with [him] till we both get old. This can't go on all the time-- all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

Guy, Soul, Time

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes (2007)

Heart, Sad, Depressing, Hurtful

“After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.”

Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows

Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 1

Business, Holiday, Parting

“Murder? You mean he's dead?"
"No. He's resting comfortably," I said. "People always sleep best with their heads at a ninety-degree angle. He looks comfortable, doesn't he?"
(Paige & Elena)”

Kelley Armstrong book Stolen

Source: Stolen

People, Sleep, Dead

“She snuggled back under the blanket with me, turned toward me so that she could rest her head on my chest. “I hear your heart,” she said.
“Do you check every once in a while, just to make sure I’m not undead?”

Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart

Source: The Fiery Heart

Heart

“He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Source: Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Tear, Heart

“Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because sometimes they take a rest.”

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist

“No rest
without love,
No sleep
without dreams
of love -
be mad or chill
obsessed with angels
or machines
the final wish
is love.”

Allen Ginsberg book Howl and Other Poems

Source: Howl and Other Poems

Love, Dreams, Angels, Sleep

“On an incredibly simplistic level, you can think of depression as occurring when your cortex thinks an abstract thought and manages to convince the rest of the brain that this is as real as a physical stressor.”

Robert M. Sapolsky book Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

Source: Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

Thinking

“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us… It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”

Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

People, Way, Evil

“So, what are you?"
"What I am is someone who doesn't want you to jump out of the window. The rest are details.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Rise of the Hotel Dumort

“All men are mad in some way or another, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Source: Dracula

Men, God, World, Way

“How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

Selfishness

“It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Variant: Being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed especially when the rest of the world could be so mean
Source: Just Listen

World

“Everything begins with a decision. Then, we have to manage that decision for the rest of your life.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

Life, Decision

“Oh, come with old Khayyám, and leave the Wise
To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies;
One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies;
The Flower that once blown for ever dies.”

Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883) English poet and writer

Source: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Life, Flowers

“[…] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage.”

Nick Hornby About a Boy

Source: About a Boy

Love, Beauty, Feeling, Intelligence

“Jenks, you can fly me up the rest of the way to Trent, and then pow! I give
Trent his statue."

"Pow, you'll be naked!" Jenks exclaimed.

(Rachel and Jenks)”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Black Magic Sanction

Way, Flying

“There's the beautiful people and then there's the rest of us.”

Thom Yorke (1968) English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter

People, Beauty

“and all I could think was that I would like to spend every morning for the rest of my life waking up beside her”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Life, Thinking

“Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.”

Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

Life, Understanding, Business, Thinking

“Boy," Annabeth interrupted, "I'm sure you both would've been wonderful at killing each other. But right now you need some rest.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Boy

“I don't think we have a future. I know we do. I want to marry you and have kids and be a stay-at-home writer dad while you take Boston journalism by storm. I want to wake up beside you every day for the rest of my life.”

Shannon Stacey (1972) american writer

Source: Exclusively Yours

Life, Home, Thinking, Future

“In 1945, peace broke out. It was the end of the Joke. Joke warfare was banned at a special session of the Geneva Convention, and in 1950 the last remaining copy of the joke was laid to rest here in the Berkshire countryside, never to be told again.”

Graham Chapman (1941–1989) English comedian, writer and actor

Source: Monty Python's Flying Circus

Peace

“It doesn’t matter,” said Adrian, smiling. He rested a hand on my shoulder. “Some things are worth the trouble.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Variant: It doesn't matter,” said Adrian, smiling. He rested a hand on my shoulder. “Some things are worth the trouble.
Source: The Indigo Spell

Smile

“She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Americanah

Source: Americanah

Feeling, Time

“He didn’t want to spend the rest of his life looking like an extra from The Walking Dead.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Life, Dead

“the only thing you need to
do for now is get some rest and take good care of yourself until you do
know the answer”

Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American writer

“Answer me this, did you hesitate at all or did you see the giant, go ‘Wheee!’ and run toward it?”
“She ran toward it,” Juke quipped.
“He was biting people in half.”
“I rest my case,” Curran said. “A note wouldn’t have made any difference.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Shifts

People

“One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.”

Philip Pullman book Northern Lights

Source: The Golden Compass

World

“No rest without love,
no sleep without dreams of love-
be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machines,
the final wish is love
-cannot be bitter, cannot deny,
cannot withhold if denied: the weight is too heavy”

Allen Ginsberg book Howl and Other Poems

Source: Howl and Other Poems

Love, Dreams, Angels, Sleep

“Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

People

“I hated every minute of it. But I said to myself, 'Suffer now, and live the rest of your life as a champion.”

Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist

On training, as quoted in "Ali: Born Again!" by Pete Axthelm and Peter Bonventre, Newsweek (25 September 1978)

Life, Hate, Suffering

“Says he foun' he jus' got a little piece of a great big soul. Says a wilderness ain't no good, 'cause his little piece of a soul wasn't no good 'less it was with the rest, an' was whole.”

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men

Soul

“Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)”

Julia Cameron (1948) American writer

Source: God is No Laughing Matter

“It's over when you decide it's over," Norah says. "When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky. That has nothing to do with us.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Sun, Night

“Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Peace, Joy

“I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little things to fill the space. Some of use weren’t even doing little things. We were vegetables.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

World, Waiting

“Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

People, Help

“All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.”

Alan Sillitoe book Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Source: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Time

“I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time…
… why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future.”

Jonathan Safran Foer (1977) Novelist

Books, Learning, Time, Future

“I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.”

George Burns (1896–1996) American comedian, actor, and writer

Life, Future

“What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.”

Rikki Ducornet (1949) American writer and artist

Source: The Fan-Maker's Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade

Books, Dreams, Reading

“She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words.”

William Faulkner book Light in August

Source: Light in August

“Ole Golly: You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.”

Louise Fitzhugh (1928–1974) American children's writer

Life, People

“The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.”

May Sarton (1912–1995) American poet, novelist, and memoirist

Light, Change

“… if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of Confidence. Either that or a scented candle.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Variant: You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle
Source: One Day

Life, Confidence

“Often admitting our weakness and fear is the first step to finding rest in God. Our trust in Him isn't conveyed though superhuman confidence as much as it comes in the way of childlike reliance on Him.”

Tracie Peterson (1959) American writer

Source: Morning's Refrain

God, Fear, Way, Confidence