Restive Quotes

#1. Our people were very restive, saying that they could not sit under that notice, and that if the National Board did not call them out soon they would go out of themselves.

Rose Schneiderman

#2. These left-overs from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse, from their homes and massacred, have been restive under the Republican rule.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#3. In democratic times, enjoyment is keener than in aristocratic centuries, and above all the number of those who taste it is infinitely greater; but on the other hand, one must recognize that hopes and desires are more often disappointed, souls more arouse and more restive, and cares more burning.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#4. The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

Mary Oliver

#5. Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely dissatisfied with anything else. He becomes as a lover to whom abstinence is intolerable.

Jean Toomer

#6. In 1983, most Nicaraguans had still not fallen to the depths of deprivation and despair which they would reach in later years, but many were already unhappy and restive.

Stephen Kinzer

#7. Fantasists aren't natural readers. They grow restive easily.

Amit Chaudhuri

#8. A sagging economy, a soaring national debt, and an increasingly restive Congress pushed Obama to order troop reductions that are both deeper and faster than recommended by his military commanders.

Ron Fournier

#9. The light comes brighter from the east; the cawOf restive crows is sharper on the ear.

Theodore Roethke

#10. Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed.

Peg Bracken

#11. My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.

Warren Christopher

#12. He cared for languages dead long enough that they wouldn't change on him.

Maggie Stiefvater

#13. Reality doesn't care about convenience or dramatic story progression.

Anonymous

#14. I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.

Paul McCartney

#15. Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.

Haile Gebrselassie

#16. A lot of friendship is about practice, that's something I've learned as I've gotten older. It's not simply some spiritual soul-bond of memories and longings, it's really about having coffee every week, or talking on the phone every day or every other day - whatever suits you.

Ann Brashares

#17. Make a commitment today to something bigger and more important than yourself.

Brian Tracy

#18. Lindsey [Buckingham] and I went up to Aspen and we went to somebody's incredible house and they had a piano and I had my guitar with me and I went in their living room, looking out over the incredible Aspen sky and I wrote 'Landslide.

Stevie Nicks

#19. Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange, Vivre est un mal. Once our heart has been harvested once, Life becomes miserable.

Charles Baudelaire

#20. Sometimes I look at my wife and get this amazing feeling inside, and tears will start to form in the corners of my eyes, and at that moment I feel truly blessed

Steven Aitchison

#21. He had known that power requires to be used; that the world compels the exercise of power if one possesses it. And that necessity constrains what one may do with power.

Rachel Neumeier

#22. The more that you need a relationship, the less you are able to be in a relationship. The more that something on the surface can answer you, the less that you will be really answered when you're in it.

John De Ruiter