Restless Quotes - Page 7

• Your life is not going to be easy, and it should not be easy. It ought to be hard. It ought to be radical; it ought to be restless; it ought to lead you to places you'd rather not go.

  Henri Nouwen

  Encouragement, Life Is, Easy

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• We were young, we were wild, we were restless
  Had to go, had to fly, had to get away
  Took a chance on that feelin'
  We were lovin' blind borderline wreckless
  We were livin' for the minute we were spinnin' in
  Baby we were alot of things, but we weren't crazy

  Josh Gracin

  Country, Song, Baby

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• When my family isn't alright, I get restless. It just doesn't seem right to me.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Football, My Family

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• Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Lying, Ice

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 114

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• You made us for yourself, Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. In this creative restlessness beats and pulsates what is most deeply human - the search for truth, the insatiable need for the good, hunger for freedom, nostalgia for the beautiful, and the voice of conscience.

  Pope John Paul II

  Beautiful, Faith, Inspiration

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• 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.

  Azar Nafisi

  Imagination, Littles, Great Work

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• When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.

  Samuel Hoffenstein

  Love, Lonely, Bored

  Samuel Hoffenstein (1954). “Complete Poetry”

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• Like one who has eaten and drunk too much and vomits painfully and then feels better, so did the restless man wish he could rid himself with one terrific heave of these pleasures, of these habits of this entirely senseless life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Feel Better, Men, Drunk

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.63, Om Books International

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• The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.

  Bert Holldobler

  Nuclear, World, Weapons

  Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson (1994). “Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration”, Belknap Press

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• Most restaurants fail. The sad ones are stillborn. The mad ones flourish within the bustle and excitement of fame, notoriety, the thrill of the new. But they rarely sustain the glow. They are balloons kept aloft by a restless crowd. Only the strange, the freaks of restaurant perfection, can sustain life beyond a few years.

  Sam Sifton

  Years, Mad, Perfection

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• We must be learning if we are to feel fully alive, and when life, or love, becomes too predictable and it seems like there is little left to learn, we become restless - a protest, perhaps, of the plastic brain when it can no longer perform its essential task.

  Norman Doidge

  Love Is, Brain, Essentials

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.116, Penguin

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• I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things. I am a very impatient person and headstrong. If I've made up my mind to do something, I can't be persuaded out of it.

  Vivien Leigh

  Mind, Different, Enough

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have always been restless, had a lot of energy.

  Riz Ahmed

  Energy

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• There's a restless feeling knocking on my door today.

  Alison Krauss

  Doors, Feelings, Today

  Song: Every Time You Say Goodbye, Album: Every Time You Say Goodbye, 1992

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• Do what you love and try not to look at what other people occupy themselves with. Most people seem restless and bounce around too much to focus or even pay attention enough to themselves to figure out exactly what they really do love, as opposed to what the people that surround them are doing.

  Rodney Mullen

  People, Focus, Trying

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• I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Stress, Thinking, Shining

  "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers - Geoffrey Rush". Interview with James Ashwood, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as creation - characterizes Montaigne's restless reflections on matter in motion, Cervantes's chronicle of his mad knight, Michelangelo's depiction of flayed skin, Leonardo's sketches of whirlpools, Caravaggio's loving attention to the dirty soles of Christ's feet.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Dirty, Reflection, Knights

  Stephen Greenblatt (2011). “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

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• America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warm-hearted, over-friendly; quick-witted, lavish, colorful; given to extravagant speech and gestures; its people are travelers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless; swarming in Fords, in ocean liners; craving entertainment; volatile. The chuckle among the nations of the world.

  Edna Ferber

  Ocean, Moving, America

  Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

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• That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism, working for good and evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom - these are the traits of the frontier.

  Frederick Jackson Turner

  Powerful, Evil, Mind

  Frederick Jackson Turner (2012). “The Frontier in American History”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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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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• Those of us who witness the degraded state of the environment and the suffering that comes with it cannot afford to be complacent. We continue to be restless. If we really carry the burden, we are driven to action. We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!

  Wangari Maathai

  Giving Up, Suffering, Generations

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• IBM doesn't want its people to get frustrated and restless because it has them reaching for carrots they can't quit

  Buck Rodgers

  People, Frustrated, Want

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• Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Depression, Fighting, Vitality

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• It is so rare...to find a complete person, with a soul, a heart and an imagination; so rare for characters as ardent and restless as ours to meet and to be matched together, that I hardly know how to tell you what happiness it gives me to know you.

  Hector Berlioz

  Friendship, Heart, Character

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• The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars.

  Elissa Schappell

  Stars, Adventure, Dawn

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