Zitat des Tages über Ruhe / Repose:
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or what management types refer to as 'employee satisfaction results' - might improve.
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
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 shadows.
The Republican party is not inflamed, as some would fain have the country believe, against the South. Its borders are wide enough for all truly loyal men to find within them peace and repose from the din and discord of angry faction.
Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.
Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
The solution as consumers is - perhaps surprisingly - to take adverts very, very seriously. We should ask ourselves what it is that we find lovely in them - the visions of friendship, togetherness, repose, or whatever. And then consider what would actually help us find these qualities in our lives.
Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
You have only to see what became of my father's will immediately after his death, and the wills of so many other kings. I know it well; but nevertheless, they have wished it; they gave me no rest nor repose, no calm until it was done.
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.
When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.
The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words.
I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility of it.