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Quotes About Rests

9Fools mock the need for repentance,b while the favor of God rests upon all his lovers.
~ Brian Simmons
Faith does not justify because of that which it is in itself, but because of that to which it is directed, in which it rests.
~ Herman Ridderbos
Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.
~ James Buchanan
The door partly opens, and Deacon rests his hip on the frame and looks me up and down as if he has no idea who I am. He's wearing gray sweatpants with CORVALLIS UNION HIGH SCHOOL printed up the leg, his hair all askew. He's shirtless, whether for effect or for comfort I'm not sure.
~ Suzanne Young
Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods.
~ Empedocles
Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.
~ Tony Blair
For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.
~ Virginia Woolf
Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases.
~ Cees Nooteboom
As so often before, on the courage and determination of British men and women, serving our country, the fate of many nations rests.
~ Tony Blair
Here rests his head upon the lap of EarthA 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
We need rests called naps And rests called play, We need little moving rests Called getting away.
~ Terri Guillemets
All human thought, including scientific thought, rests on premises which cannot be validated by human reason and which came from historical epoch to historical epoch.
~ Leo Strauss
The Holy Grail 'neath ancient Roslin waits. The blade and chalice guarding o'er Her gates. Adorned in masters' loving art, She lies. She rests at last beneath the starry skies.
~ Dan Brown
The Holy Grail 'neath ancient Roslin waits. The blade and chalice guarding o'er Her gates. Adorned in masters' loving art, She lies. She rests at last beneath the starry skies.
~ Dan Brown
In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.
~ Ralph Richardson
For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.
~ Virginia Woolf
when your foot rests on the unknown, your body quivers with metaphysical excitement
~ Unknown
My case rests on the rights of desire,' he says. 'On the god who makes even the small birds quiver.
~ Unknown
My case rests on the rights of desire,' he says. 'On the god who makes even the small birds quiver.' (11)
~ Unknown
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
Sky-bound was the mind, Earth-bound the body rests
~ Johannes Kepler
I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure. Sky-bound was the mind, Earth-bound the body rests.
~ Johannes Kepler
This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies! It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!
~ John Cleese
A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.
~ Wendell Berry