Top 100 Quotes About Rests
#1. A religious system is to be judged by its idea of God, for it is upon this that its whole structure rests.
John Daniel
#2. One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.
Josephine Preston Peabody
#3. When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared.
Geraldine Brooks
#4. Her head rests against my chest as my finger glides around her viscid pussy.
Aven Jayce
#5. Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion, not upon the nobility of a race, not on the merits of talents and of riches. It merely rests upon numbers and hides behind the name of the people.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
#7. The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.
Victor Hugo
#8. Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.
Carl Jung
#9. We see that science also rests on faith; there is simply no science "without presuppositions
Friedrich Nietzsche
#10. For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.
Virginia Woolf
#11. Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion can change the government.
Abraham Lincoln
#12. Catholic school is similar to apartheid in that it's ruthlessly authoritarian, and its authority rests on a bunch of rules that don't make any sense.
Trevor Noah
#13. Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery ... is his natural and normal condition.
Alexander H. Stephens
#14. My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.
Whittaker Chambers
#15. The soul seeks God with its whole being. Because it is desperate to be whole, the soul is God-smitten and God-crazy and God-obsessed. My mind may be obsessed with idols; my will may be enslaved to habits; my body may be consumed with appetites. But my soul will never find rest until it rests in God.
John Ortberg
#16. Love is that that never sleeps, nor even rests,
nor stays for long with those that do.
Love is language that cannot be said,
or heard.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#18. Leadership rests not only on outstanding ability. It also rests on commitment, loyalty and pride. It rests on followers who are ready to accept guidance. Leadership is the ability to direct people and - more important - to have those people accept that direction.
Vince Lombardi
#19. No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
Lin Yutang
#20. Catalytic oxidation in living substances rests upon change of valency in an iron compound which is the respiratory oxygen-transferring ferment.
Otto Heinrich Warburg
#21. Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors.
Ludwig Von Mises
#22. Part of you is the wind," he murmured. "Oui, that is true. But even the wind sometimes rests."
Shaking her head, she slid her hand around the back of his neck, soaking in the intrinsically male heat of his skin.
"Then consider me an endless storm.
Nalini Singh
#23. The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#24. The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.
Herbert Hoover
#25. In fact the Kabbalah rests upon the exoteric Judeo-Christian tradition. It consists of metaphysics and philosophy, from which can be drawn a mystical way, which is applied and regulated through personal asceticism.
Robert Ambelain
#26. Our greatest priority as Christian parents is to gradually transfer our children's dependence away from us until it rests solely on God.
Craig Groeschel
#27. We all have a dark side, our quality of life rests on whether or not we have the strength to control it.
Adam Steven Page
#28. The delight which the mariner feels, when, after having been tossed about for many a day, he steps again upon the solid shore, is the satisfaction of a Christian when amidst all the changes of this troublous life, he rests the foot of his faith upon this truth
'I am the Lord, I change not.'
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#30. Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#31. Higher good is like water:
the good in water benefits all,
and does so without contention.
It rests where people dislike to be,
so it is close to the Way.
Good ground;
profound is the good in its heart,
Benevolent the good it bestows.
Lao-Tzu
#32. Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other ideas that have preceded it in time.
Wallace Stegner
#33. When a phrase is born, it is both good and bad at the same time. The secret of its success rests in a crux that is barely discernible. One's fingertips must grasp the key, gently warming it. And then the key must be turned once, not twice.
Isaac Babel
#34. There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.
Frank Chodorov
#36. The entire world economy rests on the consumer;
if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have
on things he doesn't need
we're done for.
Bill Bonner
#37. Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging.
Marsha M. Linehan
#38. The law of prayer, the right to pray, rests on sonship.
E. M. Bounds
#39. A human being does at all times only what he wills, and yet does it necessarily. But that rests on the fact that he is what he wills: for out of what he is everything that he does at any time follows necessarily.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#40. As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn't come with easy answers.
Laurie Foos
#41. Again and again parents describe ... the trancelike nature of their children's television watching. The child's facial expression is transformed. The jaw is relaxed and hangs open slightly; the tongue rests on the front teeth. The eyes have a glazed, vacuous look.
Marie Winn
#42. Christian Science ... is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#43. I love to chase my shadow to feel how it rests in the dark.
Munia Khan
#44. Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color." - - Unknown
"Racism rests upon and functions as a kind of seesaw: the persecutor rises by debasing and inferiorizing his victim.
Albert Memmi
#45. Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?
Carlos Castaneda
#46. My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. The more you develop it in your own being, the more it overwhelms your surroundings and by and by might oversweep the world.
M K Gandhi
#47. In her beauty rests (both) my death and my life.
Maurice Sceve
#48. Making anything a success rests with people and commitment; strong will to always do the best, confidence in one another.. and absolute determination.
Jorgen Roed
#49. Thus, to take the phrases in Acts and make them into a magical incantation upon which God s forgiveness rests is to grossly misunderstand the phrase and, consequently, grossly misportray the kind of God whom Scripture reveals. Beyond
Gregory A. Boyd
#50. The certainty of our salvation rests on the character of God.
F.B. Meyer
#51. He wastes no time pulling me closer. Rests his chin on my head, his hands on my back.
And we stand like that until I'm too old to remember a world without his warmth.
Tahereh Mafi
#52. Civilization rests on two things: the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and the voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where would this splendid civilization be without both?
Robertson Davies
#54. Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle.
Hugh Nibley
#55. The entire hope of fallen humanity rests on this one thing - that there is a Savior who is eternally steadfast in redeeming, forgiving, reconciling, transforming, and delivering love.
Paul David Tripp
#56. Why do they need you on Molokai?"
"I'm not at liberty to say."
"'Not at liberty to say.' They should put that on your grave. 'Here lies Roberta Griswold. Whether or not she rests in peace, we're not at liberty to say.
Neal Shusterman
#58. In comparison, Mount Everest, though 29,029 feet above sea level, rests on the 17,000-foot-high Tibetan plateau and rises just 12,000 feet from base to summit. A similar plateau boosts the Andes; without those geological booster seats, those peaks all would lie in Denali's shadow.
Andy Hall
#59. Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.
Thomas Gray
#60. Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas and pursue our abstract imaginings.
Belinda Jeffrey
#62. My heart will not beat again until my sight rests upon your emerald eyes, he whispered into my ear.
Nely Cab
#63. Freedom rests on finding the meaning and lessons even in our greatest pain.
Lee L Jampolsky
#64. National security rests on the credible threat of a form of warfare universally condemned since the Dark Ages, the wholesale slaughter of noncombatants.
George Will
#65. Notwithstanding our boastful assertions to the world, for nearly a century, that our government was based on the consent of the people, it rests upon force, as much as any government that ever existed. - Robert E. Lee
William C. Davis
#66. The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication that rests on a stubborn refusal to admit its downside.
Evgeny Morozov
#67. The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.
Susan B. Anthony
#68. What am I to do on this earth? The choice rests with me: suffer or enjoy. Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness; but I will have enjoyed myself.
Victor Hugo
#69. Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.
Rick Larsen
#70. What can we get on with while our consciousness rests? A researcher into the mind, a psychonomer , a thought-mapper , might claim this a meaningless question: that we are nothing without our consciousness.When it rests so do we
-Railsea by China Mieville
China Mieville
#71. In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the TOMB OF HORRORS. This labyrinthine crypt is filled with terrible traps, strange and ferocious monsters, rich and magical treasures, and somewhere within rests the evil DemiLich.
Ernest Cline
#72. One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected by sociologists and psychologists.
Lester Thurow
#75. The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor or a prima donna.
Giuseppe Verdi
#76. So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.
John B. S. Haldane
#77. The Holy Spirit does not 'proceed from the Father and the Son', as the Western church's Nicene Creed maintains. The Spirit proceeds from the Father, rests on the Son, and from the Son radiates into the world.
Jurgen Moltmann
#78. When your claim to be victims of secularism rests on Wal-Mart greeters wishing shoppers Happy Holidays, you are clearly a bunch of great big babies.
Katha Pollitt
#79. There are strange moments in life when the mind rests without any kind of worries. When our mind is quiet, when our mind is in silence, then the new arrives.
Samael Aun Weor
#80. The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.
Thomas Jefferson
#81. When we pull away, he rests his hand on my thigh pressed next to his and we ride like that for a long time; the only time he moves his hand is to take better control of a sharp curve or to adjust the music, but he always puts it right back.
And I always want him to.
J.A. Redmerski
#82. The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
George Bancroft
#83. It's a mistake to believe technology rests outside India. We compete very successfully.
Adi Godrej
#84. The river this November afternoon
Rests in an equipoise of sun and cloud:
A glooming light, a gleaming darkness shroud
Its passage. All seems tranquil, all in tune.
Cecil Day-Lewis
#86. Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions of "lower" animals with simple nervous systems arise as genetic products of natural selection, then human behavior should have a similar basis.
Stephen Jay Gould
#87. So you're telling me that the whole of history rests on . . . Neville Longbottom? This is pretty wild.
J.K. Rowling
#88. Words, language and representation of meaning are an important aspect of reflective practice. Slips of the tongue, dream interpretations and the whole idea of a 'talking cure' rests on our capacity to reflect on what is (or is not) said.
Jacqui Stedmon
#89. If whatever men know comes through their brain without the Holy Spirit regenerating their spirit, then their knowledge will help them not one whit. If their belief rests in man's wisdom and not in God's power, they are merely excited in their soul.
Watchman Nee
#90. The secret strength of things
Which governs thought, and to the infinite dome
Of Heaven is as a column, rests on thee,
And what were thou and Earth and Stars and Sea
If to the human mind's imaginings
Silence and solitude were Vacancy?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#91. The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.
Edwin Louis Cole
#92. Many now veer away from the time-honored use of the term Father as applied to the Christian God ... This difficulty rests mainly, I believe, on failure to distinguish between a symbol and a definition.
Georgia Harkness
#93. Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Sidney Lanier
#94. Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.
Mary Parker Follett
#95. Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
Pythagoras
#96. The fact is that our Union rests upon public opinion and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens...If it can not live in the affections of its people, it must die.
James Buchanan
#97. All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion.
David Hume
#98. Her name is Truth. He who has once seen her never rests again. Till death he desires her." And the hunter cried: "Oh, tell me where I may find her." But the old man said: "You have not suffered enough," and went. Then
Olive Schreiner
#100. Whatever we say about God always rests within the larger reality of what we can't say; meaning always resides within a larger mystery; knowing always takes place within unknowing; whatever has been revealed to us surrounded by that which hasn't been revealed to us.
Rob Bell
