Quotes of: Repose Keyword

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

Henry Adams

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadow...

Gaston Bachelard

The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of m...

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

[Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose] as descriptive of human as well as detrital rest. As you said, it was too good for mere dirt; you tried to apply it to your own wandering and uneasy...

Angle of Repose

What interests me in all these papers is not Susan Burling Ward, the novelist and illustrator, and not Oliver Ward the engineer, and not the West they spend their lives in. What really interests me is how two such unlike particles clung together, and...

Angle of Repose

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

William Blake

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

Angle of Repose

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

Cyril Connolly

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Henry David Thoreau

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Rabindranath Tagore

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

Indira Gandhi

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Thomas Otway

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

Jean-Paul Marat

Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

Julius Sterling Morton

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.

Edward Coke

Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

Ambrose Bierce

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

Robert Smithson