Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.
Franz Kafka
Related At a certain point I realized that it would be better to make this collection available to the rest ... BRUCE KOVNER You want at least 5% of the population being serious. That five, 6% of the population carries the re... RUSH LIMBAUGH If I can’t be your love, then let me be a simple brooch so I may rest a while against ... KAMAND KOJOURI Let me tell you the story about Massachusetts under Governor Romney. It did fall to 47th out of 50 i... STEPHANIE CUTTER Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as sca... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jo... HARUKI MURAKAMI I am a cage, in search of a bird. FRANZ KAFKA People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim... GREGORY MAGUIRE If you look at footage of the Newfoundland Regiment, you see they are at rest and giddy and being si... MICHAEL WINTER Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may ... C.S. LEWIS Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may... C.S. LEWIS don’t say you’se ole. You’se uh lil girl baby all de time. God made it so you spent yo’ ole ... ZORA NEALE HURSTON I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN Only people of a certain disposition are frightened of being alone for the rest of their lives at tw... NICK HORNBY If the living conditions were better in Africa, Africans wouldn't be leaving to live in Europe. But ... IDRISSI SOW It amazes me that most people spend more time planning next summer's vacation than they do planning ... PATRICIA FRIPP The people you live with at college, those first roommates often are people you're still friends... RICHARD LINKLATER Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary. SIR WALTER SCOTT So it all ties together rather than the MET being dramatically different from the rest of the school... WALT BYRD Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intrica... CAROLINE KNAPP I think with the sophomores playing in their last home game, they were a little more focused on that... DAVE STRICKLIN When you feel, staying home is best then your body may be at rest but not your mind.For your mind to... KOWSALAPATHY May the Father be gracious according to your needs.Dear Father preserve their life,relieve them of p... SHELLEY E WILLIAMS Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressi... C.S. LEWIS Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressi... C. S. LEWIS May it never be a footprint that you shall ever say maybe in May. May it instead be a footprint that... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH That'll be something they remember the rest of their lives. It may not be all good, but it'll be goo... NORRIS ASHLEY The key here is that with planning, you can take advantage of opportunities, where without this plan... BRUCE PITTMAN When you get as old as I am, you kind of believe there's nothing new under the sun, but there... JACKI WEAVER If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gon... FRANZ KAFKA You remind me of an old lady that's past her prime that should be sitting home in a rocking chair do... RICARDO MAYORGA The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces li... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN These heroes are dead. They died for liberty - they died for us. They are at rest. They sleep in the... ROBERT G. INGERSOLL Very rarely are they separated. Usually at the beginning of the training we do a couple of shootings... JAMES UPHAM Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, withou... BLAISE PASCAL Being on the DL and knowing that you are not coming back the rest of the season is not fun at all, .... CHRIS DUFFY There is this one thing that I never ever want to know, and that is knowing how to give up on a true... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We all work together so well. And the rest of the club jumps in at the final hours to get it all tog... TRACI DANIELS I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that th... RANDY HARRISON I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories without me.... MICHAEL IRVIN Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. BALTASAR GRACIAN So they actually did better than 3.5 percent in the toy industry itself. Clearly they did better tha... MARGARET WHITFIELD Evolution at this level, like the rest of history, is predictable, perhaps more predictable than peo... GEERAT VERMEIJ You know how it is between sisters in their middle age? that old old friendship, how loose-fitting i... MOLLY GLOSS Happiness in reality consists only in rest, and not in being stirred up. This instinct conflicts wit... DALLAS WILLARD Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka") WILLIAM S. WILSON Better Old King Cole and his merry soul than a hundred Franz Kafkas. MARTY RUBIN I suppose there is some people who won't let it rest. They are free to think along those lines, but ... EMMETT BROWN I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the ... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES She is in very good health at the moment. She's probably far better than the rest of us at standing ... GILLY PENROSE Let me share some facts with you about the law in most of our country. California is in many ways a ... MICHAEL D. BARNES I assure you I'll be in Pocatello the rest of my life, ... I'm never moving again. CHRISTINE KING With regard to future bliss, I cannot help imagining that multitudes of the zealously orthodox of di... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Message from Archangel Raphiel: "Be at peace in the center of your world. You are not missing a beat... KIMBERLY DAWN The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a s... STEVE JOBS Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are tha... EZRA TAFT BENSON Let go of the mistakes and the sins of others. You'll have plenty of time to make your own mistakes,... C. JOYBELL C. Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to hav... EUGENE DELACROIX Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees. THOMAS JONATHAN "STONEWALL" JACKSON Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees THOMAS STONEWALL JACKSON If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be... ABRAHAM MASLOW Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all. MARK TWAIN Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all MARK TWAIN I was cursed with age, really. You do that stupid thing at 12 years old when you say something and i... TOM FELTON Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet
never really meet; and two others at ... MARY CATHERWOOD Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at f... MARY CATHERWOOD It is better not to be born, than spending the rest of your life in eternal Lake of fire THE INSPIRATIONIST They pretty much kept it at that the rest of the way. DAN SYLVESTER When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break tog... C.S. LEWIS We want the morning show to be at least as good, if not better, than the radio station. The morning ... DON HOWE It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life. RANDALL JARRELL It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live
with you for the rest of your life. RANDALL JARRELL It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life RANDALL JARRELL An observer who is sitting eccentrically on the disc K' is sensible of a force which acts outwards i... ALBERT EINSTEIN Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a l... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Stop over-loading yourself with numberless tasks. Give time to yourself for rest and positive delibe... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Since it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights, so that they may be in fact Spani... JOSE RIZAL Your muscles will still be burning calories when you are at rest. MANDY ANDRE It is better to hide under the shadow of the righteousness of Almighty God than seek refuge in shelt... LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and
any eminent departure from it, un... EDMUND BURKE Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, und... EDMUND BURKE Not knowing what may happen next is the end of knowing. Confirming to yourself that nothing is certa... JACK TYME The rest of the band were basically friends, So it was me following them around and begging them to ... JONNY GREENWOOD Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country. JAMES WOODS There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they con... GAIL GODWIN These people have history and I crave history. I crave someone knowing me so well that they can tell... MELINA MARCHETTA From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being pr... CARL HIAASEN They're out of contact now; their cell phones may not be working there. When we get into the trenche... BILL PYLE If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... Chances are, in five years they may not exist at all, or it may be something else, but right now it'... HAL VOGEL You are serving someone for the rest of your life, not knowing a time must come when you must also b... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR If the rest of the children are boys and the middle child is a girl, then the experience may be diff... ANNE DUBOIS In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you ... DORIS LESSING Those who believe and whose hearts are set at rest by the remembrance of Allah; now surely by Allah'... QURAN I want to take one last journey together, just the three of us, and go back to Easterbury… and let... YUKAKO KABEI How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no for... HENRY DAVID THOREAU 50-50. It may be time to get on with the rest of my life. LINDSAY SHEARER I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories wit... MICHAEL IRVIN You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life. COCO CHANEL
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FRANZ KAFKA From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. FRANZ KAFKA I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, end... FRANZ KAFKA I have this vision: That I would finally come and find you. Scattered pieces of distance would not s... FRANZ KAFKA They no longer wanted to entice anyone; all they wanted was to catch a glimpse for as long as possib... FRANZ KAFKA Am I to leave this world as a man who shies away from all conclusions? FRANZ KAFKA Please — consider me a dream. FRANZ KAFKA Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might... FRANZ KAFKA Atata timp cat nu incetezi s urci, treptele nu se vOr termina; sub pasii tai care urca, ele se vOr i... FRANZ KAFKA For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light. FRANZ KAFKA Paths are made by walking FRANZ KAFKA In a certain sense the Good is comfortless. FRANZ KAFKA Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are me... FRANZ KAFKA I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as ... FRANZ KAFKA I can’t feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my h... FRANZ KAFKA Auch ist es vielleicht nicht eigentlich Liebe wenn ich sage, daß Du mir das Liebste bist; Liebe ist... FRANZ KAFKA We're not used to thinking of vegetables in creative ways, and consequently the flavors are boring. BARBARA KAFKA This was one time I didn't have to fight to keep my book healthy. It came easily. All those vegetabl... BARBARA KAFKA And the lime juice is very important, too it brings the taste forward in the mouth. BARBARA KAFKA It's entirely conceivable that life's splendor surrounds us all, and always in its complete fullness... GUSTAV KAFKA The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character wi... FRANZ LISZT You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involve... FRANZ GRILLPARZER Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wi... FRANZ SCHUBERT