Win The Life

It's no rest to be idle. - Paul Peel

 

How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward. - Proverb

 

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest. - Francis Quarles

 

No one needs a vacation more than the person who just had one. - Source Unknown

 

Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest. - Antoine Arnauld

 

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. - William Cowper

 

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen. - Leonardo Da Vinci

 

Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life. - S. W. Duffield

 

No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned. - Jean Paul

 

I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest.-Moshe Dayan

 

The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.-Ernie Pyle

 

All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.-Ernie Pyle

 

Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.-Edward Bach

 

Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.-Hernando Cortes

 

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.-Thornton Wilder

 

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.-Thomas Huxley

 

I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life.-Paula Radcliffe

 

Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.-Jack LaLanne

 

In these times, God's people must trust him for rest of body and soul.-David Wilkerson

 

Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.-Rutherford B. Hayes

 

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.-Wendell Berry

 

Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that.-Charlie Watts

 

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.-Nora Ephron

 

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.-John Updike

 

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.-Willa Cather

 

Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.-David O. McKay

 

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.-Anthony Hopkins

 

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.-Harriet Ann Jacobs

 

Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.-Ornette Coleman

 

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.-Thorstein Veblen

 

A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.-Clara Barton

 

If you rest, you rust.-Helen Hayes

 

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.-Helen Hayes

 

I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.-Conor Oberst

 

Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.-Xun Zi

 

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.-Xun Zi

 

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.-William Cowper

 

No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.-William Cowper

 

A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.-William Howard Taft

 

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.-Thomas Mann

 

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.-Saul Bellow

 

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.-William Feather

 

When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.-William Feather

 

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.-Barbara Jordan

 

Well, to be honest with you, yes there is and there is not. But as I am a fan of this kind of music as well as the rest of the guys naturally are - and being a fan, we kind of get pleased by our music as fans and as being in SLAYER.-Kerry King

 

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.-Paul Cezanne

 

Tony Blair will be remembered for nothing other than that he followed George W. Bush over a cliff; took the rest of us with them, and we haven't yet reached the bottom, I'm afraid.-George Galloway

 

Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.-Spike Lee

 

You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight.-Reggie Jackson

 

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.-Mikhail Gorbachev

 

I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now.-Leonardo DiCaprio

 

A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.-James Cash Penney

 

The thought in my mind was that I must be a good merchant. If I were a good merchant, the rest would probably take care of itself.-James Cash Penney

 

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.-William Penn

 

The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.-Emile M. Cioran

 

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.-Ken Kesey

 

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.-Dylan Thomas

 

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.-Andy Rooney

 

You'll have time to rest when you're dead.-Robert De Niro

 

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.-Aristotle Onassis

 

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.-Charles Kettering

 

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.-Charles Kettering

 

I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.-Charles Kettering

 

Texas created more jobs in 2008 than the rest of the states - combined.-Rick Perry

 

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.-St. Jerome

 

And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap.-Shia LaBeouf

 

I drink protein shakes nonstop - three or four a day - and I run a lot, so you get rid of the bad carbs and keep the rest so you have the energy to make it through.-Shia LaBeouf

 

The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.-Jim Harrison

 

I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels.-Nicholas Sparks