#restless

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#ambitious #content #despise #doubting #exertions

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#failure #first #i #man #me

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#conservative #current #despite #ideology #men

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#constituents #court #effect #government #government offices

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#closet #makes #restless #skeleton #something

You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#had #heart #hearts #i #just

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#mind #pillow #restless

In the large cities that received new Americans, there flowered a golden age of restaurants, manned by the available talent from abroad and fueled by the restless wealth of the newly rich. ↗

— David Joseph Schwartz

#age #available #cities #fueled #golden

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

#corrosive #devising #evil #exact #hate

I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me! ↗

— Taylor Swift

#bed #day #dream #get #half