Rests Quotes

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.

Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline.

My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us - where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.

Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.

The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.