Top 100 Quotes About Rested
#1. A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good.
Francis Atterbury
#2. The sun was setting over Rainbow Valley. The pond was wearing a wonderful tissue of purple and gold and green and crimson. A faint blue haze rested on the eastern hill, over which a great, pale, round moon was just floating up like a silver bubble. They
L.M. Montgomery
#3. He slid an arm around me and pulled me to him. I rested my head on his chest, and he nuzzled my hair and kissed me just above the ear.
Janet Evanovich
#4. Rand threw open the door to the kitchens, and there they were. Moiraine rested her serene eyes on him, unsurprised.
Robert Jordan
#5. At the same time, we both pulled back briefly still oh so close. Everything in the word rested on that moment.
"We can't ... " He told me.
"I know," I agreed.
Then his mouth was on mine again, and this time I knew there would be no turning back.
Richelle Mead
#6. God rested from all his work which he created to do/make. The last word, this last 'to do' is for us, we are the partners in the completion of creation, it's not done yet.
Dennis Prager
#7. Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor
it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people.
Anthony Doerr
#8. I sighed, looking down at the book in my hands. The Years. I rested my elbow against the arm of the couch and cracked the spine. It had the feel of a book that hadn't been touched in decades, creaking, as if to say ahhh.
Sarah Jio
#9. I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life ... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.
Herbert Hoover
#10. I don't want you to go yet. I like having you here with me. You soothe me, baby." He rested his head on top of mine. "You are my ray of light in a fog of ignorance and frustration.
Raine Miller
#11. She yawned, and Rowan rubbed his eyes, his other hand still in hers. But he didn't let go. And when she awoke before dawn, warm and safe and rested, Rowan was still holding her hand, clasped to his chest.
Sarah J. Maas
#12. When my eye rested on an arid height, spirit partook of the barrenness. - Heartily wish Niebuhr & Strauss to the dogs. The deuce take their penetration & acumen. They have robbed us of the bloom.
Herman Melville
#13. After the birth of a boy, mothers rested from one moon to the next, but the birth of a birth-giver required a longer period of separation from the world of men.
Anita Diamant
#14. In ancient times, determinism rested on a belief in an omniscient God. Today, it is not old-time religion, but, rather, our culture's newfound faith - science - that challenges the belief in free will.
Jeffrey M. Schwartz
#15. There is work for us to do to be God's partner as it were and to continue. There is something for every one of you to do as a partner with God in this world. He has rested and as it were now, we take over. Later, God does not intervene quite as much as obviously as God did with the Exodus of Egypt.
Dennis Prager
#17. The moon rested right above the mountains, a place I call home.
Daniel Wallock
#18. 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
#19. We danced about a mile apart the whole time, until during "Auld Lang Syne" he suddenly rested his chin on the top of my head as if he were very tired.
Sylvia Plath
#20. I wish children could grow according to their natural pace: sleep when sleepy, wake up when rested, eat when hungry, cry when upset, play and explore without being unnecessarily interrupted; in other words, be allowed to grow and blossom as each was meant to.
Magda Gerber
#21. She drew in a shuddering breath. "I love you." And let it out. "God." The emotion that swept through him was like a summer storm, quick, violent, then clean. Swamped with it, he rested his brow on hers. "You didn't choke on it.
J.D. Robb
#22. head rested on her pulled up knees and dark hair hid her face, but there was no mistaking that despair rocked her small frame.
Karen Lenfestey
#23. Faith, girl, faith. At the end of the day, that's all we have." Charlotte rested her cheek against her
Rachel Hauck
#24. I wait for the next opportunity to have something to do with food. If I get rested, my mind just starts creating new dishes - click, click, click.
Paul Prudhomme
#25. I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.
Jane Campion
#26. Akin rested his chin on Iriarte's shoulder and savored the strange pale scents - all pale now.
Octavia E. Butler
#27. In the morning he would not have needed sleep, for all the warm odors and sights of a complete country night would have rested and slept him while his eyes were wide and his mouth, when he thought to test it, was half a smile.
Ray Bradbury
#28. we can speculate on the relay of our common activity, make a circle round our errant roots. Dancing is what we make of falling. Music is what we make of music's absence, the real presence making music underneath. I'm exhausted so my soul is rested.
Fred Moten
#29. Jace looked at him. His expression was cool, unfriendly; his hand was atop Aline's where it rested on her thigh.
Cassandra Clare
#31. Jules and I smiled a lot. So much, that I found my cheeks actually hurt when I finally rested my head at the end of the day. I would rub the muscles in them, readying them for their inevitable workout the next day.
Fisher Amelie
#32. Podo and Leeli finally came back to where the others rested, and though her face still bore the weight of her sorrow, Janner could see that is sister was present. Her eyes didn't see stare into nothing. They saw the situation, grieved for it, and faced it.
Andrew Peterson
#33. Wine?" said Zoe. "At two in the afternoon?"
"I've decided to become an alcoholic. Just for the duration of my middle years." She filled a glass and rested it on the edge of the washbasin. "That's yours.
Mo Hayder
#34. His chin rested on top of my head as he stroked my hair.
"It's alright," he murmured. "I'll keep you safe."
"She okay?"
Ayden jerked away, dropping his hands. And me.
A&E Kirk
#35. Jerry shifted the clipboard to his side as he rested his fists on his hips, as though to attest to his in-chargeness.
Nina Post
#36. The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct "actuality" of the world around us, can be extrapolated into the atomic range. This extrapolation is impossible, however.
Werner Heisenberg
#37. Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.
Neal Shusterman
#38. I waked that I judged it was after eight o'clock. I laid there in the grass and the cool shade thinking about things, and feeling rested and ruther comfortable and satisfied. I could see the sun out at one or two holes, but mostly it was big trees all about, and gloomy in
Mark Twain
#39. It may take a little self-discipline - be simple, be kind, stay rested. Attend to your own inner-health and happiness.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#40. The humanitarian developers behind World of Warcraft have also discovered a way to bribe gamers into turning off their computers and going outside. If you log off for a few days, your character will be more 'rested' when you resume playing, a mode that temporarily speeds up your leveling.
Clive Thompson
#41. Sommerfeld's fine-structure theory was generally considered to be excellently and unambiguously confirmed by experiment. Because the theory rested on the foundation provided by Bohr, the experiments were also taken as strong support for his theory of atomic structure.
Helge Kragh
#42. Sydney, look at me.' He rested his hands on the car roof and leaned in. 'No one is going to hurt you. Do you know why?' She shook her head, and Victor smiled. 'Because I'll hurt them first.
V.E Schwab
#43. At the present time he was a man of perhaps forty-five years of age, short and heavy-set, with a bullet-shaped head that rested on broad, ape-like shoulders. His thick torso and bulging paunch were supported by a pair of spindly legs that contrasted oddly with the upper portions of his beefy body.
H.P. Lovecraft
#44. The passage, "And He rested on the seventh day" (Exod. xx. 11) is interpreted as follows: On the seventh Day the forces and laws were complete, which during the previous six days were in the state of being established for the preservation of the Universe. They were not to be increased or modified.
Maimonides
#45. How's this for honesty?" Luke said abruptly. "I want you..."
"I don't have sex with men I've just met," she murmured.
He rested his hands on her hips, the warmth of his touch searing her flesh. "Would you consider making an exception?
Elle Kennedy
#46. The United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward, and so will space.
John F. Kennedy
#47. On everyone's lap rested a book. Any book. In case the wedding got boring.
Cynthia Hand
#48. She rested her head on Esther's shoulder and let the fuzzy warmth of her hug flow through her. It was the kind of warmth that clicked your bones back into place, smoothed out your muscles and made your blood sing a soft lullaby all the way around your body.
Joy Cowley
#49. Whatever her dream was, it rested somewhere in the most vague of directions.
Elizabeth Craft
#50. For me, conferences are like little mental vacations: a chance to go visit an interesting place for a couple of days, and come back rested and refreshed with new ideas and perspectives.
Erin McKean
#51. She knew she could kill him in a variety of gory ways in less time than it took him to adjust the strange spectoculums that rested on the very end of his nose, but even this distraction didn't seem to help!
Stuart Hill
#52. Mediocrity is a pit that swallows people who have rested on seats of complacency for long.
Israelmore Ayivor
#53. If I believed the stories I learned growing up, God made the world in six days and on the seventh day he rested. I wonder if, like me, the eighth day was when he watched it all begin to unravel.
Cora Carmack
#54. His hand still rested on her breast, but his fingers had stilled. The touch that had been so agitating now felt comforting. As though he soothed her by it.
Meredith Duran
#55. He just watched the way Finnikin's hands rested on Evanjalin's neck and he rubbed his thumb along her jaw and the way his tongue seemed to disappear inside her mouth as if he needed a part of her to breathe himself.
Melina Marchetta
#56. Not before the harvest is in, and the mules
are rested
Hugh Laurie
#57. I sat on the floor behind him, putting my legs on either side of his hips so that my calves were over the edge, and I rested my cheek on his bare back. He continued to play and I recognized the tune. Wild Horses by the Rolling Stones.
D.D. Prince
#58. He rested his mouth against my ear once more and told me softly "there is nothing I want in this world, so much as you.
Joanne Valiukas
#59. I think the fact that Sir Alex Ferguson rested Howard Webb had a lot to do with the result.
Noel Gallagher
#60. Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to be circular, tentative, and uncertain.
Alister E. McGrath
#61. We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.
Jones Very
#62. Breathing heavily near his ear as he rested his head next to mine, I whispered, "I wish we could stay this way forever."
"You only need to say the word, and I would take you away from all of this. We could make love for eternity. I can be very creative, Cassandra.
L.J. Kentowski
#63. Somebody said my name, asked if I was okay. I didn't answer, the sound of the commotion dying around me as the heavy monkey of sleep rested its warm, hairy ass on my eyelids.
David Wong
#64. I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness of God than when I find myself in a natural setting not much changed from the way He made it.
Jimmy Carter
#65. Chronicler found himself thinking of a story he had heard. One of the many. The story told of how Kvothe had gone looking for his heart's desire. He had to trick a demon to get it. But once it rested in his hand, he was forced to fight an angel to keep it.
Patrick Rothfuss
#66. You stayed," he murmured ... Her softly whispered answer sifted into his hair where her lips rested against the top of his head. "You didn't let go.
Tina St. John
#67. She was gentle and sedate as usual, but evidently absent and preoccupied. Her eyes rested on the dew lying on the grass in the garden, and her ears were intent upon the melancholy singing of the autumn insects. It was as if we were in a real romance.
Murasaki Shikibu
#68. I missed you, she cried into him. Standing on top of the snow gave him an additional few inches on her and she rested her head against his chest. She could hear nothing within, just her own heartbeat echoing.
Thomm Quackenbush
#69. Experience has taught me that it is always better to be well rested than to know what you are doing - Nanny Piggins
R.A. Spratt
#70. Although her heart had been dead for years, she clasped her hands over her breast to protect what rested underneath.
Montgomery Mahaffey
#71. Your best changes from moment to moment, sick or well, tired or rested. Remember that you are an imperfect human being. There is no value to judging yourself for
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#72. If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.
Will Schwalbe
#73. The Giant rested back in his chair. "You've some stories left," he said. " I can smell them on your skin.
Brian Patten
#74. He pulled his lips away and rested his forehead against hers, trying to keep himself from getting another erection. It took great strength of will, but he did it.
Julianne MacLean
#75. [John Jarndyce] rubbed his head so constantly that not a single hair upon it ever rested in its right place
Charles Dickens
#76. The easiest way to stay super-focused is to be well rested and not do any multi-tasking unless you absolutely have to.
Lawrence Voss
#77. Lightning rods guarding some graves denoted dead who rested uneasily; stumps of burned-out candles stood at the heads of infant graves. It was a happy cemetery.
Harper Lee
#78. In truth, we were similar. Like two sides of a fan, we were at odds with each other, we competed with each other, but our fates similarly rested in the hands of the Emperor--the holder, the commander, the manipulator of our destinies.
Weina Dai Randel
#79. Presently it appears that people are mainly concerned with being well rested. Those capable of uninterrupted sleep are much admired. Unconsciousness is in great demand. This is the day of the milligram.
Fran Lebowitz
#80. Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs ... I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.
Maya Angelou
#81. She grabbed both of his hands in hers, squeezed. Then she rested her head on his shoulder, her nose nestled against his neck - she had to be standing on the tips of her toes. Each breath from her sent a new wave of chills across his skin.
James Dashner
#82. The more sleep you get in before the clock turns midnight, the more rested you feel no matter what time your alarm goes off.
Summer Sanders
#83. Your packmate?
Ren lowered his head. My second
I'm sorry. My father rested his muzzle on Ren's shoulder.
Ren whimpered softly, leaning into my father.
Andrea Cremer
#84. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.
Mary Kay Ash
#85. The order of things established by the Romans in Libya rested in substance on a balance of power between the Nomad kingdom of Massinissa and the city of Carthage.
Theodor Mommsen
#86. The pair sat relaxed and stared toward U.S. 1 at nothing in particular. Coleman rested his joint on the edge of the window and popped a beer. "This is the life." "You said it, buddy." Serge uncapped a bottle of water. "Florida, a full tank of gas, and no appointments.
Tim Dorsey
#87. Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
Frederick William Faber
#88. He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.
Ernest Hemingway,
#89. Akua rested her head against a rock, and did not speak until she heard the girls' soft and sleepy breaths floating about her like tiny butterflies.
Yaa Gyasi
#90. While God did rest from His creative work, since the Fall He has never rested from His redemptive work.
Peter Hubbard
#91. When I rest, I rest and when I work, I work hard and sometimes for long hours. I always try to be rested when I work ...
Simmie Knox
#92. Your eyes are beautiful, he said, and she felt warm suddenly, warm in the sun that dappled through the treetops and rested on them in patches.
Kristin Cashore
#93. The mists seemed to draw back. Waxillium stood there, wearing a large, dusterlike coat, cut into strips below the waist. A pair of revolvers gleamed in holsters at his hips, and he rested a shotgun on each shoulder. His face was bloodied, but he was smiling.
Brandon Sanderson
#94. I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I'm fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival.
Eva Herzigova
#95. Your presence was shore where I rested/ released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke/ with my true voice again.
Robert Hayden
#96. Most bravery, dear little one,' he said as he pulled the dog from the water and rested it across the back of his thickly muscled neck, 'is marked by a strength less than imagined, and a hope farther from reach than one expects.
Steven Erikson
#97. Once the stone door slid into place, Keegan closed the very short distance between them. She didn't move, nor did she flinch when he snaked an arm around her waist and drew her into his body, hard. A soft gasp escaped her, and she rested her palms on his chest.
Lia Davis
#98. Her feet half rested half floated, upon the floor; Earth scarcely held her down, so fast was she becoming a thing of dreams. No love of hers for Earth, or of the children of Earth for her, had any longer power to hold her there. And
Lord Dunsany
#99. I slept for over a full day, as you know, but I won't say I rested.
Daniel Woodrell
#100. Nina rested her chin atop Inej's silky hair. "Zoya used to say that fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return." (p188)
Leigh Bardugo
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