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Quotes About Resting

I am really irked by healthy NBA players resting. I really don't understand it. Players in the past have played all season for years. I just don't love it. I feel like it hurts the integrity and competitiveness of the game. It's got nothing to do with the TV partners; it's about cheating the fans.
~ Molly Qerim
One of the great lessons of 200 years of American boom is that technology is never neutral. Things come with demands, they have needs and they exploit the environments they find themselves in. America invented technopomorphism, the imbuing of functional tools with sapient attributes. There is no such thing as an inanimate object, they are just resting.
~ A.A. Gill
The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river's deeper and truer nature revealed itself.
~ Aberjhani
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Evil the drink and ill the resting place. I am not, unfortunately, asleep.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
~ Haniel Long
When you are dead, seek for your resting place not in the earth, but in the hearts of men.
~ Rumi
No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there. [No churchyard is so handsome that a man would desire straight to be buried there.]
~ George Herbert
God is continuously in action, without resting for a single moment.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
15. Therefore to believe in God, is in believing to cleave to God, to lean on God, to rest in God as in our all-sufficient life and salvation. Deut. 30, 20. by cleaving to him, for he is thy life.
~ William Ames
Faith is a resting of the heart on God; as on the author of life and eternal salvation: that is to say, that by him we may be freed from all evil, and obtain all good, Isa. 10. 20.
~ William Ames
Prayer is not simply what we do. It is a way of being. More specifically, it is resting in the reality of our being-in-God. This is our fundamental identity. It is the hidden but deepest truth of our existence.
~ David G. Benner
God's peace is joy resting. His joy is peace dancing.
~ F. F. Bruce
I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower!
~ Frederick Lenz
After being impaled by a javelin, while officiating- I'm doing fine now, just resting and hanging around.
~ Jeremy Campbell
Bodily fatigue, which nearly always accompanies this hateful malady, can wear down the spirit. And how can the Holy Spirit work with a vessel that's leaking as fast as he can fill it?" "If I know you," the bishop continued, kindly, "you are not resting. You are not recreating.
~ Jan Karon
she barely moved and was, of course, concerned only with her own beautification and cleanliness. She dozed or was, at any rate, lying down, eyes closed, on her front, on her back, on one side, on the other, covered in sunscreen, her gleaming arms and legs always fully extended so that no part of her would remain untanned, no fold in her skin, even her armpits, even her groin (nor, it goes without saying, her buttocks)
~ Javier Marías
He seekes out mighty charmes , to trouble sleepy mindes.
~ Edmund Spenser
I have always enjoyed cemeteries. Altars for the living as well as resting places for the dead, they are entryways, I think, to any town or city, the best places to become acquainted with the tastes of the inhabitants, both present and gone.
~ Edwidge Danticat
To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.
~ Chief Seattle
start working- rarely resting- seemingly driven by a fatalistic sense that work that has to be done was best done as quickly as possible.
~ Richard Rodriguez
Here lies resting, out of breath, Out of turns, Elizabeth Whose quicksilver toes not quite Cleared the whirring edge of night.
~ X.J. Kennedy
The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert