Rest Quotes

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

Leave the rest to the gods.

Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

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

I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.

A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.

I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend the rest of my life wearing waistcoats. I got the chance to try everything. Not just Romeos, but pimps and grandfathers and even one role as a woman in a Naomi Wallace play called Slaughter City.

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Politicians are no different than the rest of the public.

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one project a year and take the rest of the year off as long as that project is special.

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.

A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.

The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.

Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.

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

The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.

I'm on this road for the rest of my life.

Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.

My favourite quality workout is 6 X 5 minutes with 1 minute rest between each.

Imagine you are walking along, and you trip over something and you turn around and find that it is a huge diamond. You would pick it up and do everything in your power to take care of that diamond because it might take care of you for the rest of your life.

A similar revolving fund could be set up for Germany, for a durable peace can rest only upon a Germany that, while militarily impotent, is industrially active.

Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.

The surgery will always be a huge part of my life. I'm going to need to help people with weight problems for the rest of my life so that I can maintain my weight.

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.

I am pleased to tell you that he is finally getting some rest and is regaining his appetite as well.

Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.

We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.