Quotes about rest
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“I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.”

Anne Fadiman (1953) American essayist, journalist and magazine editor

Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

“I think it's possible to realize you love someone as deeply as you know how to love and not end up spending the rest of your life with him.”

Robin Jones Gunn (1955) American writer

Source: As You Wish

Love, Life, Thinking

“99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against?”

Mary E. Pearson book The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Time

“I wanted to read all these books, but I would have to have been in a rest home or something to do that (p. 37,).”

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

Books, Home, Reading

“Nothing but writing rests me; only then do I seem completely myself!”

Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856–1923) American writer

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”

Lin Yutang (1895–1976) Chinese writer

"A Trip to Anhwei", in With Love And Irony (1940), p. 145

Beauty, Travel, Home

“one pierced moment whiter than the rest

-turning from the tremendous lie of sleep
i watch the roses of the day grow deep.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Lie, Sleep

“I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living.”

Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American writer

Source: The Signature of All Things

“The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.”

Jim Butcher (1971) American author

World, Thinking, Madness

“"You're not leaving me here alone," I say. Because if he dies, I'll never go home, not really. I'll spend the rest of my life in this arena trying to think my way out.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Katniss Everdeen, p. 343
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)

Life, Way, Home, Thinking

“I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted.”

Elmore Leonard book LaBrava

Source: LaBrava

“The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

Life, Childhood

“Rest. Heal. Sleep. I shall most likely kill you on the morrow.”

“You? A Princess Bride quote?” I croaked.

“What is that?” she asked.”

Jim Butcher book Cold Days

Source: Cold Days

Quotes, Sleep, Princess

“But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that's the blessing.”

Natalie Babbitt book Tuck Everlasting

Source: Tuck Everlasting

Parting

“The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.”

Edward O. Wilson (1929) American biologist

Life, People

“The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Source: Flipped

Life

“Because it’s our duty to God to protect the rest of humanity from evil creatures of the night.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

God, Evil, Night

“A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

Sleep, Forgetting

“I held her close for only a short time, but after she was gone, I'd see her smile on the face of a perfect stranger and I knew she would be there with me all the rest of my days.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Source: Strange Dreams: Collected Stories & Drawings

Smile, Time, Perfection

“My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's.”

John Connolly The Book of Lost Things

Source: The Book of Lost Things

Love, Feeling, Business

“They all deserve to die.
Even you, Mrs. Lovett
Even I.

Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief
For the rest of us death would be relief.”

Stephen Sondheim (1930) American composer and lyricist

Source: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Death

“Don't ask where the rest of this book is!" It is a shrill cry that comes from an undefined spot among the shelves. "All books continue in the beyond…”

Italo Calvino (1923–1985) Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels

Source: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Books, Cry

“More like some small, fierce bird of prey, something with a sharp bite. An owl perhaps, that speaks only when the rest of the world sleeps.
Jenny will do well enough.”

Juliet Marillier book Daughter of the Forest

Source: Daughter of the Forest

World, Bird, Sleep

“Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.”

W.C. Fields (1880–1946) actor

Life

“I watch the beauty for as long as I can, then turn and face the rest of it.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

Beauty

“We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”

Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author

Art, Passion, Madness

“All right, then, her first rule for the rest of her days: no more looking outside for definitions. She might not have any clue who she was, but better to be lost and searching than shoved into a social box by someone else.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Revealed

Source: Lover Revealed

Search, Box

“I cry to you, my Lord, my rock! Do not be deaf to me, for if you are silent, I shall go down to the pit like the rest. Hear my voice raised in petition as I cry to you for help, as I raise my hands, my Lord, toward your holy of holies.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

Help, Cry

“I must be overtired', Buttercup managed. 'The excitement and all.'
'Rest then', her mother cautioned. 'Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

Night

“They can't hurt me. I'm not like the rest of you. There's no one left I love.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Love, Hurt

“the rest of the girls pretended not to notice. That's just what best friends do.”

Sara Shepard Pretty Little Liars

Source: Pretty Little Liars

Girl

“Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

World, Daughters

“We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.”

Bill Russell (1934) American professional basketball player and coach

Hope, Learning

“I had weird dreams full of barnyard animals. Most of them wanted to kill me. The rest wanted food.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

Food, Dreams, Animals

“Do you love me?" he asked.
I fell silent.
"For the rest of it is glitter and noise," he said. "At the heart of it all is love. You make that choice, and you go forward from there.”

Sharon Shinn (1957) American science fiction writer

Source: Summers at Castle Auburn

Love, Heart

“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

“Stone and sea are deep in life
Two unalterable symbols of the world
Permanence at rest
And permanence in motion
Participants in the power that remains”

Stephen R. Donaldson (1947) Novelist

Source: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever

Life, World, Sea

“Write in the morning, revise in the afternoon, read at night, and spend the rest of your time exercising your diplomacy, stealth, and charm.”

Roberto Bolaño book The Savage Detectives

Source: The Savage Detectives

Exercises, Time, Reading, Night

“The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

As quoted in The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom (1958) edited by Herbert Victor Prochnow <br class="br">As quoted at page 212 in The Pocket Book of Quips and Quotes http://books.google.de/books?id=jcIWpJdFBkEC&pg=PA212&dq=The+world+is+full+of+willing+people,+some+willing+to+work,+the+rest+willing+to+let+them.&hl=de&sa=X&ei=R9LOUe3UL8mctAbO0oDQCg&ved=0CGwQ6AEwCDgK#v=onepage&q=The%20world%20is%20full%20of%20willing%20people%2C%20some%20willing%20to%20work%2C%20the%20rest%20willing%20to%20let%20them.&f=false (1996) by Rajendra Pillai, Copyright 1996 The Saint Paul Society Bombay, 2nd Print 1999 <br class="br">1950s

People, World