Restless Quotes
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.
As a broken microphone cannot broadcast a message, so a restless mind cannot transmit prayers to God
The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.
With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.
That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our preconceived notions and formulas.
My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.
Walk in the way of the Lord with simplicity and do not torment your spirit. You must hate your defects, but with a quiet hate, not troublesome and restless.
With all this wide and beautiful creation before me, the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound.
A mother's love is like an island, In life's ocean vast and wide, A peaceful, quiet shelter, From the restless, rising tide.
Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.
Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?
Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in an intellectual realm as well as in a physical one.
When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change
When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit.
I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze.
All things look good from far away and it is man's eternally persistent childlike faith in the reality of that illusion that has made him the triumphant restless being he is.
It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.
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.
The true measure of a city is its soul. This is the restless energy that doesn't wait for political leadership.
There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east.
Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -- the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.
Good Luck is a giddy maid, Fickle and restless as a fawn; She smooths your hair; and then the jade Kisses you quickly, and is gone.
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family.
A man's body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.
Restless thoughts are a kind of mental 'static' which must be silenced if we are to hear the whispers of our inner self.
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.
If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy.
The people are not always well-informed, but is better that they have misconceptions that make them restless than that they be lethargic-for lethargy in the people means death for republics.
A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.
It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity.
The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.
I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
Many of us, restless and unfulfilled, see no supreme worth in our lives. We want more out of life. And war, at least, gives a sense that we can rise above our smallness and divisiveness.
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.
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.