Quotes on Rest

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

Author: Abigail Adams

How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.

Author: Robert Allen

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

Author: Mary Astell

Georgia is in an enviable position today, but we can't rest on our laurels.

Author: Roy Barnes

It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.

Author: Ed Belfour

Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where.

Author: Robert Bridges

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

Author: Robert Browning

U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined.

Author: John Bruton

If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.

Author: Betty Buckley

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.

Author: Jonathan Carroll

Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.

Author: Jonathan Carroll

In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks.

Author: Ron Chernow

The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.

Author: Emile Cioran

At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun.

Author: Nicolaus Copernicus

Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.

Author: Hernando Cortes

No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.

Author: William Cowper

I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest.

Author: Moshe Dayan

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Author: Charles Dickens

With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it's going to translate easily.

Author: Robert Downey, Jr.

I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.

Author: Alexandre Dumas

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.

Author: Tim Duncan

You push the button, we do the rest.

Author: George Eastman

Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.

Author: King Edward VIII

The publisher is a middleman, he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays the piper.

Author: Geoffrey Faber

When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.

Author: William Feather

Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest.

Author: Edward Fitzgerald

I agree with the rest of the band, that a truly synthesized sound isn't really what I would want to go for.

Author: Mike Gordon

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Author: Baltasar Gracian

I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.

Author: Spalding Gray

If you rest, you rust.

Author: Helen Hayes

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

Author: Arthur Helps

The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent.

Author: Joseph Hume

I think getting the rest of the guys in the band to write is important.

Author: Donnie Iris

I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.

Author: Jack Irons

The rest of the world wants our cash; we like plastic.

Author: Bill Janklow

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.

Author: Jerome

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

Author: St. Jerome

When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out.

Author: Joan Jett

We will not rest until we see the suspects behind bars.

Author: Walid Jumblatt

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.

Author: Ken Kesey

It was suggested that I take a recording test. I passed, was liked and, well, you know the rest of the story.

Author: Johnny Kidd

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

Author: Fran Lebowitz

We didn't know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was so different that we wanted to try to imitate that, to a certain extent.

Author: Bob Livingston

None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives.

Author: Jake Lloyd

The crowd is wonderful. There is always a superb atmosphere in the finish area. It's good for the World Cup. I missed it a lot when I had to rest and it's so nice to be back here.

Author: Hermann Maier

There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

Author: Edouard Manet

I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.

Author: Shirley Manson

I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest.

Author: Norma McCorvey

But after this last year and dealing with the studio, the rest of us are closer than we've ever been.

Author: Bruce McCulloch

What is without periods of rest will not endure.

Author: Ovid

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

Author: Ovid

I'm in an absolute frenzy towards doing as many things as I can that I want to do today. The rest can wait till tomorrow, next week, if I'm around we'll take a look.

Author: Buck Owens

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

Author: Laurence Peter

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

Author: Pablo Picasso

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

Author: Pythagoras

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

Author: Thomas Quincey

No, no, no separate but equal... never the twain shall meet. And the pendulum kept swinging and it came to rest in the bastard hybrid known as the Daily Show.

Author: Mo Rocca

What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our lives, even better.

Author: Campbell Scott

Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians.

Author: John Shimkus

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Author: Denis Waitley

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

Author: Alice Walker

A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.

Author: Edmund Waller

Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that.

Author: Charlie Watts

I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.

Author: Flip Wilson

But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, with his martial cloak around him.

Author: Charles Wolfe

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

Author: John Wooden

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

Author: Steven Wright

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

Author: William Yeats