Top 101 Rests Quotes

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.

My father use to say if coal died, the country died. He was right. Our economy rests on the back of the coal miner. If we did not have the black diamonds of the mountains to burn, we would lose more than half of the nation’s energy reserves.

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

The bedrock principle of separation of powers ought to be upheld regardless of the (D) or (R) that rests behind a given president’s name.

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

The entire existence of the NFL – and of football at any level, for all of that – rests on whether or not the game can keep fooling itself, and its paying fan base, that it is somehow superior to boxing and to the rest of our modern blood sports.

The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

The future of communicating with customers rests in engaging with them through every possible channel: phone, e-mail, chat, Web, and social networks. Customers are discussing a company’s products and brand in real time. Companies need to join the conversation.

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.

There is something wonderful about turning up every day and knowing that not just the character but the whole movie kind of rests on your shoulders. And there’s great satisfaction when you think it’s going well and then real terror when you think it’s not.

We remain a country where a young person’s chance of fulfilling their potential rests on the vagaries of where they were born and what their parents do, rather than their innate talent and ambition.

Here rests the soul of our nation – here also should be our conscience.

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.

America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity.

The American tradition rests on pillars of self-questioning, self-actualization, and disagreement.

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.

If I’m working as an engineer for another band, the responsibility for brilliance pretty much rests on their shoulders. I think I’m pretty good, but I’m not good enough to turn a trout into a sausage, or the other way around.

Britain is a parliamentary democracy. Power rests in Parliament, in the House of Commons, and the government – the executive – has to seek the consent of MPs for its legislation.

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

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

I’m not good with long rests.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

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.

Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.

Stone Mountain Memorial is the greatest project of its sort ever conceived. It should be finished, because it represent an idea as deep, as basic as the rocks on which our wonderful continent rests.

Cabinet government rests on the principle of collective responsibility: Ministers debate and argue in private but then hammer out a common policy which they all agree to support.

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

It rests in the hands of ‘Dreamgirls’ and ‘Hairspray.’ If they’re successful, we’ll be back on track – people will continue to greenlight musicals. If they don’t work, then you’re going to see everyone go back to the way it was before ‘Chicago.’

Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud. Submit yourself to ordeals and test yourself in fire. Relinquish the emotion which rests upon a mistaken belief, and seek to feel fully that emotion which fits the facts.

Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today’s world, it can now spread like contagion.

The responsibility to seek learning by faith rests upon each of us individually, and this obligation will become increasingly important as the world in which we live grows more confused and troubled.

The fate of our democracy rests on our ability to protect voting rights for all citizens.

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

The reality of football rests on that patch of green between 90 and 95 minutes. Whichever team is going to win has to do it on the field of play and by scoring more goals than the opposition.

All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is ‘important’ in the sense of being ‘worthy of being known.’

It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.

The Keynesian prescription for unemployment rests on the persistence of a ‘money illusion’ among workers, i.e., on the belief that while, through unions and government, they will keep money wage rates from falling, they will also accept a fall in real wage rates via higher prices.

Trying to make something as tricky as ‘Room’ really believable is extremely hard, and it largely rests with that relationship between the actors and the director, and the director and the crew.

The foreign policy of the United States rests entirely on propagandistic lies.

The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.

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

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

The big mistake people make is eating their grilled beef hot. I prefer room temperature or cool. When the meat rests and starts to get cool, all of that fat goes back into the muscles and becomes much more tender.

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.

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

The days of noblesse oblige are long behind us, so our elite’s entire claim to legitimacy rests on theories of equal opportunity and upward mobility, and the promise that ‘merit’ correlates with talents and deserts.

Freedom rests on a rational distrust of government; government will always use its power to benefit the incumbent administration.

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

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

The merit of a democratic regime rests on one’s continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.

Catalytic oxidation in living substances rests upon change of valency in an iron compound which is the respiratory oxygen-transferring ferment.

Tensions exist in any free society. But the freedom we enjoy rests on a foundation of individual liberty and shared moral values.

My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father – dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.

Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

Gaddafi’s ability to have survived so long rests on his convenient position in not being committed to a single ideology and his use of violence in such a theatrical way.

A living art of teaching, one that rests on a true understanding of the human being, has a thread of strength running through it that stimulates individual students to participate so that it is not necessary to keep their attention through direct ‘individualized’ treatment.