Quotes About Rest

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.

O cease! must hate and death return, Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!

Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; Heaven so real that we must have men there.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.

Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.

All men are alike when asleep.

It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.

overtaken every afternoon by a need for sleep so intense it was almost painful.

the one and only key to a successful nap was to break the thread of consciousness just long enough for the switch to be thrown to "off." When it got thrown to "on" again, even if it was only a few minutes later, the brain–body system rebooted itself, like a fucked-up computer that just needs to be unplugged from the wall for ten seconds and restarted in order to come back to life in clean working order.

You want to play video games twenty-four hours a day? Or watch. I just want to not be me. Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's what's important.

You don't work anymore 12 hours

THE LAND OF DREAMS Sleep, sleep, It will carry you Into the land of wonderful dreams. The future is waiting for you there— Your future, And your family. Yuma

You can trade with ninety-five percent of the rest of the world. Stop blaming the American embargo for all your problems. Your problems are made in Cuba.

And here I am again, not convalescing this time but decompressing, which is a lot better than decomposing.

I mean, why waste time in sleeping?" She laughed, a little shrilly. "Just doesn't make sense.

Stop! Hersey cried out. Stop! something appalling is happening to all of us. We're saying things we'll regret for the rest of our lives. We're merely speaking the truth [William Compline] It's the sort that shouldn't be spoken. It's a beastly lop-sided exaggerated truth.

The facile, if not tautological, answer to the question is that the West dominated the Rest because of imperialism.

You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.

On the drive we talked easily, but we did make a small detour. After pulling into a rest stop, we made out like teenagers.

acceptance is the heart of true love, not judgment. To be fully accepted by another, even in your weakest moment, is to finally feel at rest.

Tired soldiers made mistakes. Learn to sleep when it was time to sleep, no matter how chaotic things were, trusting it would be better the following day.

I want balance. Work is important because I have to support myself, but so are friends, health, rest. Having the time to do things that I enjoy, and sometimes doing nothing at all.

When I go home, I go to my house in the countryside. I don't hang out in Dublin. I go home to be with my family and have a rest and so on. I don't know anything about the Irish music scene, and I've never felt part of it.