Rests Quotes

In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline.

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.

My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us - where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.

The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.