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Quotes About Resting

My whammy system is set up so I can yank the bar up as well as do dive-bombs with it. This means that if I accidentally push down on the bridge with my palm, my strings go sharp and sound out of tune. I make sure this never happens by never resting my hand on the bridge when muting. I always do my muting just in front of the bridge.
~ Dimebag Darrell
When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you were twelve floors up instead of four. It was very much like living on the edge of the world - a last resting place before the final big drop.
~ Charles Bukowski
Manny, what are you doing working in auto parts?" "Resting. My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
~ Charles Bukowski
Manny, what are you doing working in auto parts?" "Resting.
~ Charles Bukowski
I don't mind traveling that much when I can go somewhere and stay there for a while, but touring is different. You rarely see anything. You get there early in the morning and you're resting all day, and you go in and do a sound check, and you do the show, and then bam you're gone.
~ George Strait
God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
~ Bible
Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.
~ Muriel Rukeyser
She had the kind of legs that kept her butt from resting on her shoes—a size-eight dame in a size-six dress and every mug in the joint was rooting for the two sizes to make a break for it as they watched her wiggle in the door and shimmy onto a barstool with her back to the door.
~ Christopher Moore
Creatures of the night were rising from their resting places and venturing forth to feed on their unsuspecting victims.
~ Christopher Moore
Galbatorix glanced over his shoulder and said, "It was inconsiderate of you to attack so early in the morning. I was already awake--I rise well before dawn--but you woke Shruikan. He gets rather irritated when he's tired, and when he's irritated, he tends to eat people. My guards learned long ago not to disturb him when he's resting. You would have done well to follow their example.
~ Christopher Paolini
It is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken that slumbering Progress.
~ Victor Hugo
It is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awake that slumbering Progress.
~ Victor Hugo
The successful use the power they think they have while the rest, resting desire the power they think they don't have.
~ Goa Kerle
resembled photographs she had seen of Rudyard Kipling, when the newspapers published photographs of the author and his wife visiting the battlefields of northern France in search of their only son's final resting place.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
Mightily and long must a man strive within himself before he learn altogether to overcome himself, and to draw his whole affection towards God. When a man resteth upon himself, he easily slippeth away unto human comforts. But a true lover of Christ, and a diligent seeker after virtue, falleth not back upon those comforts, nor seeketh such sweetness as may be tasted and handled, but desireth rather hard exercises, and to undertake severe labours for Christ.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Everyone knows where they are from when they know where it is they want to be buried.
~ Colum McCann
Herinnering is als een hond die gaat liggen waar hij wil.
~ Cees Nooteboom
Sometimes even a well-rested steak will lose juices when you cut into it. Sometimes a completely un-rested steak won't spill a drop. But as a general rule, resting meat for about one-third of its total cooking time guarantees that more juices will stay inside than on your cutting board or plate.
~ J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
But faith is not necessarily, or not soon, a resting place. Faith puts you out on a wide river in a boat, in the fog, in the dark. Even a man of faith knows that (as Burley Coulter used to say) we've all got to go through enough to kill us.
~ Wendell Berry
Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make, that has no price? Where is our sanity but there? Where is our pleasure but in working and resting kindly in the presence of this world? (pg. 215, Economy and Pleasure)
~ Wendell Berry
And, you know, we are all in the same keeping. The sea is a glorious great pure thing, you know, that man cannot hurt or defile. It seems to me," said Ethel, looking up, "as if resting there was like being buried in our baptism-tide over again, till the great new birth. It must be the next best place to a churchyard. Anywhere, they are as safe as among the daisies in our own cloister.
~ Charlotte Mary Yonge
Ranger was slouched on the couch, watching a ball game. Bob was beside him, his big shaggy orange Bob head resting on Ranger's leg.
~ Janet Evanovich
He did not hate the Winter now, for he knew that it was merely the Spring asleep, and that the flowers were resting.
~ Oscar Wilde