Restless Quotes - Page 14

• With a time-based medium like theater or film, you can't have the audience getting restless in their seats. They're stuck there on their bums; you have to pay enormous attention to pace and you can't lose your way.

  Emma Donoghue

  Way, Attention, Pace

  "The Keeper of Room". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2015.

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• There is a reason people in America are disappointed and restless. If opportunity seems like it's been slipping away, that's because it has. And liberal progressive ideas have done exactly nothing to help.

  Paul Ryan

  Opportunity, Ideas, America

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The Stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn. In her train followed hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of thousands of restless, rolling Stones . . . to Saturn . . . to Uranus, to Pluto . . . rolling on out to the stars . . . outward bound to the ends of the Universe.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Stars, Rolling, Stones

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• I was simply restless, quite likely because of a dissatisfaction with the recent trajectory of my life, and if there is a better, more compelling reason for dropping everything and moving to the end of the world, I know not what it is.

  J. Maarten Troost

  Moving, Compelling Reason, World

  J. Maarten Troost (2004). “The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific”, Broadway

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• From the first days of my career as an entrepreneur, I have always used my own and my team's lack of experience to our advantage. In fact, at our first venture, Student magazine, we used our newcomer status to secure great interviews and generate publicity - people were excited about our new project and wanted to get involved. Our inexperience fed our restless enthusiasm for trying new things, which became part of our core mission.

  Richard Branson

  Team, Careers, People

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• Most journalists are restless voyeurs who see the warts on the world, the imperfections in people and places. . . . gloom is their game, the spectacle their passion, normality their nemesis.

  Gay Talese

  Passion, Games, People

  Gay Talese (2013). “The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World”, p.1, Random House

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• Carl Jung tells in one of his books of a conversation he had with a Native American chief who pointed out to him that in his perception most white people have tense faces, staring eyes, and a cruel demeanor. He said: “They are always seeking something. What are they seeking? The whites always want something. They are always uneasy and restless. We don't know what they want. We think they are mad.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Book, Native American, Eye

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.75, New World Library

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• The essence of the miracle of forgiveness is that it brings peace to the previously anxious, restless, frustrated, perhaps tormented soul.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Forgiveness, Essence, Miracle

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• In this noisy, restless, bewildering age, there is a great need for quietness of spirit. Even in our communion with God we are so busy presenting our problems, asking for help, seeking relief that we leave no moments of silence to listen for God's answers. By practice we can learn to submerge our spirits beneath the turbulent surface waves of life and reach that depth of our being where all is still, where no storms can reach us. Here only can we forget the material world and its demands on us.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Wave Of Life, Asking For Help, Practice

  Alice Hegan Rice (2013). “My Pillow Book”, p.29, Read Books Ltd

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• Mental purity will come through constant chanting of the divine name. This is the simplest way. You are trying to cross the ocean of transmigration, the cycle of birth and death. The mantra is the oar of the boat; it is the instrument you use to cross the samsara of your restless mind, with its unending thought waves. The mantra can also be compared to a ladder that you climb to reach the heights of God realization.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Ocean, Restless Mind, Names

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• I love shooting, when the character is interesting and the script is interesting, but the research beforehand is really fun. The whole process makes me anxious and restless, and I have trouble sleeping, just trying to figure out the character.

  Matt Damon

  Fun, Character, Sleep

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2002.

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• Nevertheless, scientific method is not the same as the scientific spirit. The scientific spirit does not rest content with applying that which is already known, but is a restless spirit, ever pressing forward towards the regions of the unknown, and endeavouring to lay under contribution for the special purpose in hand the knowledge acquired in all portions of the wide field of exact science. Lastly, it acts as a check, as well as a stimulus, sifting the value of the evidence, and rejecting that which is worthless, and restraining too eager flights of the imagination and too hasty conclusions.

  Archibald Garrod

  Science, Hands, Imagination

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• The dragon-fly is dancing, - Is on the water glancing, She flits about with nimble wing, The flickering, fluttering, restless thing. Besotted chafers all admire Her light-blue, gauze-like, neat attire; They laud her blue complexion, And think her shape perfection.

  Heinrich Heine

  Thinking, Light, Blue

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• But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.

  Tobias Wolff

  Writing, Doe, Littles

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• I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

  Beth Henley

  School, Los Angeles

  "Expressing 'the Misery and Confusion Truthfully'". Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, American Drama, Volume 14, No. 1 (p. 87), Winter 2005.

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• A restless spirit who can't reach his goal, can't find a home until I've found my soul.

  Ray Davies

  Philosophy, Home, Goal

  Song: Still Searching, Album: Phobia

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• Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as illness, rather than being willful, angry, irrational or simply tiresome.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Psychosis, Violence, Illness

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

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• We were just killing time, we were young and restless, and needed to unwind. There ain't nothing that lasts forever, forever.

  Bryan Adams

  Philosophy, Forever, Lasts

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• My friends and neighbors were always fixing their cars. Soldiers who felt restless wanted to work on something, and they understood cars. Me, I like to look at cars but I was never really a mechanic.

  Edward Ruscha

  Car, Soldier, Looks

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• It is not that God is stingy and must be coaxed, for He "giveth liberally and upbraideth not." It is that we ourselves are so shallow and sinful that we need to tarry before Him until our restless natures can be stilled and the clamor of outside voices be deadened so that we can hear His voice. Such a state is not easily reached, and the men God uses have paid a price in wrestlings and prevailing prayer. But it is such men who rise from their knees confident of His power and go forth to speak with authority.

  Vance Havner

  Prayer, Wrestling, Men

  Vance Havner (0101). “Blood, Bread and Fire:: The Christian’s Threefold Experience”, p.10, Solid Christian Books

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• Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fate, Spurs, Treasure

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1872). “Faust: A Tragedy”, p.57

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• The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.

  Robert Southey

  Wings, Sound, Bees

  Robert Southey (1829). “The poetical works of Robert Southey: complete in one volume”, p.115

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• No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

  John Keats

  Dream, Luxury, Long

  John Keats (1818). “Endymion: A Poetic Romance”, p.43

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• You, O money, are the cause of a restless life! Because of you we journey toward a premature death; you provide cruel nourishment for the evils of men; the seed of our cares sprouts from your head.

  Propertius

  Money, Journey, Men

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• I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete cleanliness.

  John Steinbeck

  Sitting Still, Celibacy, Cleanliness

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