Restless Quotes - Page 2

• Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

  Doris Lessing

  Men, Conservative, Adventurous

  "The great contrarian". Interview with Lisa Allardice, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2007.

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• His heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small restless body.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Body, Mines

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• Love is a circle that doth restless move in the same sweet eternity of love.

  Robert Herrick

  Sweet, Moving, Love Is

  'Love What It Is'

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• A man's body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.

  Michael Caine

  Men, Body, May

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• Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Restless Mind, Energy

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• Knowing that we are fulfilling God's purpose is the only thing that gives rest to the restless human heart.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Heart, Knowing

  Charles Colson, Nancy Pearcey (2011). “How Now Shall We Live?”, p.204, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every part of my mind. And with long searching and hard work, I became devoted to my restlessness.

  Gordon Parks

  Hard Work, Long, African American

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• This restless world
  Is full of chances, which by habit's power
  To learn to bear is easier than to shun.

  John Armstrong

  World, Bears, Chance

  John Armstrong, John Dyer (1858). “The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations”, p.27

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• Man is by nature restless. When left too long in one place he will inevitably grow bored, unmotivated, and unproductive.

  Ricardo Semler

  Men, Long, Bored

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• Be always restless, unsatisfied, unconforming. Whenever a habit becomes convenient, smash it! The greatest sin of all is satisfaction.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Satisfaction, Sin, Habit

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• The unorganized mind will always be restless until its content is reordered.

  Ervin Seale

  Mind

  ERVIN SEALE (1971). “TAKE OFF FROM WITHIN”

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• but curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

  Girl, Passion, Curiosity

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• Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, God, Jesus

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• It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity.

  Joanna Baillie

  Dark, Mind, Looks

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• Talented people are restless at their core.

  Lorne Michaels

  People, Core

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• Better balance, less pain and less restless leg syndrome.

  Euclid

  Pain, Balance, Legs

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• Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.

  William Blake

  Crush, Philosophy, Writing

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.379, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.

  Tim Burton

  Exercise, Drawing, Imagination

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• How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.

  Ida Tarbell

  Children, Work, Sleep

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• The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.

  Oscar Wilde

  Forgiveness, Caves, Sin

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”, p.126, Oscar Wilde

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• If we persist in our restless desire to know everything about the universe and ourselves, then we must not be afraid of what the artist brings back from his voyage of discovery.

  Herbert Read

  Artist, Discovery, Desire

  Herbert Read (2002). “To Hell with Culture: And Other Essays on Art and Society”, p.142, Psychology Press

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• In most marriages, there is a contented partner and a restless one.

  Jennifer Wilson

  Partners

  Jennifer Wilson (2011). “Running Away to Home: Our Family's Journey to Croatia in Search of Who We Are, Where We Came From, and What Really Matters”, p.8, Macmillan

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• When we have sold our identity to the judges of this world, we are bound to become restless, because of a growing need for affirmation and praise.

  Henri Nouwen

  Inspirational, Religious, Judging

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• Time flies on restless pinions - constant never.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Time, Constant, Time Flies

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.304, Delphi Classics

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• The universe was born restless and has never since been still.

  Henri Rousseau

  Born, Stills, Universe

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