Restless Quotes - Page 5

• But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.

  H. G. Wells

  Years, Long, Waiting

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• Everybody should know that Germany will not go it alone: there will be no restless Reich.

  Helmut Kohl

  Germany, Should, Knows

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• For the most part, it is true, ordinary men and women regard mathematics with energetic distaste, counting its concepts as rhapsodic as cauliflower. This is a mistake-there is no other word. Where else can the restless human mind find means to tie the infinite in a finite bow?

  David Berlinski

  Mistake, Mean, Men

  David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

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• God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights follow in bitter routine: the sun shines without brightness, and the moon rises without light. My heart has the taste of ashes, and my throat is tight and weary with weeping. What is a lost soul? It is one that has turned from its true path and is groping in the darkness of remembered ways—

  Malcolm Lowry

  Heart, Moon, Night

  Malcolm Lowry (2015). “The 1940 Under the Volcano: A Critical Edition”, p.306, University of Ottawa Press

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• I can't justify taking one minute of free time for myself. I'm restless to do things. Anything! Hell, I'll watch Top Chef and I think, "God, maybe I could be a chef," I'll watch a dancing show and think, "God, maybe I can be a dancer." I mean, that's how I got into acting. I visited an improv show and thought, "Hey! I could do this." It sounds like arrogance, but I don't think it is... just an ambition to reach out and touch something new.

  Steven Yeun

  Ambition, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Without the instruments and accumulated knowledge of the natural sciences... humans are trapped in a cognitive prison. They are like intelligent fish born in a deep shallowed pool. Wondering and restless, longing to reach out, they think about the world outside. They invent ingenious speculations and myths about the origin of the confining waters, of the sun and the sky and the stars above , and the meaning of their own existence. But they are wrong, always wrong because the world is too remote from ordinary experience to be merely imagined.

  E. O. Wilson

  Stars, Intelligent, Thinking

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• Whatever else you do or forbear, impose upon yourself the task of happiness; and now and then abandon yourself to the joy of laughter. And however much you condemn the evil in the world, remember that the world is not all evil; that somewhere children are at play, as you yourself in the old days; that women still find joy in the stalwart hearts of men; And that men, treading with restless feet their many paths, may yet find refuge from the storms of the world in the cheerful house of love.

  Max Ehrmann

  Laughter, Children, Heart

  Max Ehrmann (2017). “The Desiderata of Happiness”, p.7, Souvenir Press Ltd

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• The only way of salvation for the world is by returning to thy allegiance.... Firm in my faith, I shall have force to withstand my evil counsellors, my skepticism, which leads me to doubt of the people, my restless spirit which, after truth has been brought to light, impels to go on searching for it.

  Ernest Renan

  Light, People, Evil

  Ernest Renan (1883). “Recollections of My Youth”

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• It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests.

  Isaac Asimov

  Insecurity, Height, Tests

  Isaac Asimov (2010). “The End of Eternity”, p.246, Macmillan

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• Yea, I have looked, and seen November there; The changeless seal of change it seemed to be, Fair death of things that, living once, were fair; Bright sign of loneliness too great for me, Strange image of the dread eternity, In whose void patience how can these have part, These outstretched feverish hands, this restless heart?

  William Morris

  Loneliness, Heart, Hands

  William Morris, Peter Faulkner (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.96, Taylor & Francis

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• The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay
  With courage to behold the restless day,
  And count it fair.

  Amelia Earhart

  Choices, Soul, Pay

  "Amelia, My Courageous Sister : Biography of Amelia Earhart". Book by Muriel Earhart Morrissey and Carol L. Osborne, 1987.

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• One of the gravest perils which besets the ministry is a restless scattering of energies over an amazing multiplicity of interests which leaves no margin of time and of strength for receptive and absorbing communion with God.

  Bonar Law

  Prayer, Energy, Ministry

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• Ere you lie down to sleep in the night, sit still awhile, and nurse again to life your gentler self. Forget the restless, noisy spirit of the day, and encourage to speech the soft voices within you that timidly whisper of the peace of the quiet night; and occasionally look out at the quiet stars. The night will soothe you like a tender mother, folding you against her soft bosom, and hiding you from the harm of the world.

  Max Ehrmann

  Mother, Peace, Stars

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• I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.

  Vivien Leigh

  Different, Enough, Headstrong

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the moment and the quick fix. The earthly rhythms that characterize a more pastoral way of life have been shunted aside to make room for the fast track of an urbanized existence. Lost in a sea of perpetual technological transition, modern man and woman find themselves increasingly alienated from the ecological choreography of the planet.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Life, Past, Men

  Jeremy Rifkin (1989). “Time Wars: The Primary Conflict in Human History”, Touchstone

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• Princes have but their titles for their glories,
  An outward honor for an inward toil;
  And, for unfelt imaginations,
  They often feel a world of restless cares.

  William Shakespeare

  Imagination, Honor, Toil

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1848). “1847. Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus”, p.35

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• [Imagination] must be visited constantly, or else it begins to become restless and emit strange bellows at embarrassing moments; ignoring it only makes it grow larger and noisier.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Imagination, Strange, Moments

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• To our dismay, users who had been enduring several hour waits between jobs run under batch processing were suddenly restless when response times were more than a second.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Running, Jobs, Waiting

  "On Building Systems That Will Fail". Communications of the ACM, Volume 34 Issue 9, dl.acm.org. September 1991.

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• I am blessed or cursed, depending on how you look at it, with an incurably restless spirit and the ability to work hard.

  Salvatore Ferragamo

  Blessed, Hard Work, Looks

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• The work of Liszt I most admire is the music he wrote toward the end of his life. This is often music of tremendous inventiveness. The music seems to be seeking something. It tends to be restless, unpredictable, often very sad.

  Michael Hersch

  Very Sad, Ends, Admire

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• The true measure of a city is its soul. This is the restless energy that doesn't wait for political leadership.

  Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

  Cities, Waiting, Political

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• I've always been a sort of curious and restless person. I've always wrestled with ambition.

  Lydia Polgreen

  Ambition, Curious

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I'm incredibly restless. I read a lot of poetry. I also find myself reading the first 20 pages of everything, looking for something. And you know what? I'm usually looking for the book I'm writing. And it's not out there!

  Janet Fitch

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• I'm just a restless soul musically.

  Joe Louis Walker

  Soul

  Source: somedayprods.com

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• I think that I will continue being an active and restless soul. And I think that what I do which is to help people nurture their potential not only for themselves, but also for the world.

  Kathy Eldon

  Thinking, People, Soul

  Source: www.pbs.org

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