Repose Quotations

I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.

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.

It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.

LAZINESS, n. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

Simplicity and repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

But the thing uttered by the speaker I strain towards is still not quite the story of what is going on; it is more reflexive than that, because as a poet I am in fact straining towards a strain, seeking repose in the stability conferred by a musically satisfying order of sounds.

It creates a place for fish to hide and it reduces the angle of repose to reduce erosion.

The art of measurement, by showing us the truth would have brought our soul into the repose of abiding by the truth, and so would have saved our life.

The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.

I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and, when got, the repose is insupportable

We are praying now for the repose of his soul. Hoping you're well and not in hell. Nice change of air. Out of the frying pan of life into the fire of purgatory.

The thoughts and prayers of everyone in this building are with Tony and (wife) Lauren, their children and their extended family, and for the repose of James' soul. This is a tragedy for the Dungy family and by extension for his football family here with the Colts.

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.

The rich and the honorable, if divested of this right, have still their wealth and their honors to repose on, and to solace them.

Our thoughts and prayers from everyone in this building are with Tony, (his wife) Lauren, their children, their extended family and the repose of James' soul. This is a tragedy for the Dungy family and by extension for his football family here at the Colts.

In these two cemeteries repose the remains of more than 1,000 people. They are in a pretty failed state of condition.

We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.

Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.

Youth is a season that has no repose.

Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.

The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two can help us thread a path between having all our secrets trivially discoverable and preserving nothing for our later selves for fear of that discovery.

Wisdom is the repose of the mind.

Consider the silent repose of the sausage as compared to the aggressiveness of bacon.

Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

Kings are like stars, - they rise and set, they have - The worship of the world, but no repose

repose, v.i. To cease from troubling.

Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia give the world repose

It was not a bosom to repose upon, but it was a capital bosom to hang jewels upon.

To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flames from wasting by repose.