Unresting Quotes

#1. There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.

George Eliot

#2. The God who guides the stars, unhasting and unresting, will as assuredly fulfill what He has promised.

Oswald Chambers

#3. Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea, Men meet, and greet, and sever, Parting eternally.

Edwin Arnold

#4. Energy and curiosity are the lifeblood of universities; the desire to find out, to uncover, to dig deeper, to puzzle out obscurities, is the spirit of the university, and it is a channelling of that unresting curiosity that holds mankind together.

Robertson Davies

#5. This unresting anxiety is the greatest evil which can happen to the soul, sin only excepted.

Francis De Sales

#6. Unhasting and unresting' was his motto

Leo Tolstoy

#7. Science ... means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an aim which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but the intellect can never fully grasp.

Max Planck

#8. What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself unwitting where their Master dwells?

John Masefield

#9. I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting till he rests in me, Drawn upward by the choice that makes him free, Leave him in tragic loneliness to choose, With all in life to win or all to lose.

Edwin Markham

#10. Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.

E. O. Wilson

#11. The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.

Moliere

#12. I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.

Jim Harrison

#13. Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

Hermann Hesse

#14. The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the balance of payments.

Gunnar Myrdal

#15. I think relationships are really hard. Each one gives you lessons that you need.

Jennifer Grey

#16. Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing.

John Fletcher

#17. It seems wise to spend time and energy on fixing the problems we see out there - but if we don't take a step back and see the OVERALL big picture - the real CAUSE of all of these results that we're focused on - our efforts will only go so far.

Dana Gore

#18. There is possibility of making you suffer even and pain. There is a way!

Deyth Banger

#19. Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier

Pierre Bourdieu

#20. Money is only used for two things. One, it's to make you comfortable, and the more comfortable you are the more creative you will become. And the other purpose is it enables you to extend the service you provide far beyond your own presence.

Bob Proctor

#21. He saw the threat of the family being destroyed by not being open to life or children. Paul VI was brave. He was a good pastor. He alerted his sheep, telling them that the wolves were approaching.

Pope Francis