Rest Quotes

As long as poverty, injustice, and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended.

There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights.

Instead of submitting to surreptitious cruelty in thousands of dark jail cells and on countless shadowed street corners, he would force his oppressor to commit his brutality openly--in the light of day--with the rest of the world looking on.

I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect.

You must sleep sometime between lunch and dinner, and no halfway measures. Take off your clothes and get into bed. That's what I always do.

The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.

Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only lasts twenty minutes, is sufficient to renew all the vital forces.

Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.

I try to not work too many Sundays. At least on Sunday nights, I try to chill out a little bit. I call it Sunday Funday.

I'm just tired; I just want the world to be quiet for a bit.

It's my job to be better than the rest, and that's enough reason to go for me. It's my job to be better than the rest, and that makes the day for me.

Even warriors put their spears down on Sundays.

I'll rest when I'm dead. I'm hungry and life is short!

I wanted to read all these books, but I would have to have been in a rest home or something to do that.

I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?

We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

Elvis really died the day he joined the army. That's when they killed him, and the rest was a living death.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.