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Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.
Thomas Hobbes
Humans are propelled by a ceaseless and uneasy craving for authority.
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No more restless uncertainties, no more anxious desires, no more impatience at the place we are in; for it is God who has placed us there, and who holds us in his arms. Can we be unsafe where he has placed us?
Francois Fenelon
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The great stillness in these landscapes that once made me restless seeps into me day by day, and with it the unreasonable feeling that I have found what I was searching for without ever having discovered what it was.
Peter Matthiessen
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The universe was born restless and has never since been still.
Henri Rousseau
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Everybody should know that Germany will not go it alone: there will be no restless Reich.
Helmut Kohl
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Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves onevery occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us.
George Canning
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We have sought for firm ground and found none.
The deeper we penetrate, the more restless becomes the universe; all is rushing about and vibrating in a wild dance.
Max Born
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I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.
Vivien Leigh
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I don't feel restless, I just like to travel.
Brad Pitt
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My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.
John Keats
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That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our preconceived notions and formulas.
Azar Nafisi
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Jazz is restless. It won't stay put & it never will.
J. J. Johnson
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There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.
Wilson Mizner
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We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
Minoru Yamasaki
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I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze.
Lauren F. Winner
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Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear.
Laozi
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The unorganized mind will always be restless until its content is reordered.
Ervin Seale
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Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -- the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.
Rabindranath Tagore
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We live on a restless planet in a violent universe.
Dale Jamieson
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In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.
Rich Lowry
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A restless vitality wells up as we approach 30.
Gail Sheehy
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Restless thoughts are a kind of mental 'static' which must be silenced if we are to hear the whispers of our inner self.
John Novak
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I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
Oscar de la Renta
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Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.
Henry Ward Beecher
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His heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small restless body.
Haruki Murakami
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Man is a restless creature, nomadic at heart.
Tash Aw
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I was very restless, but finally I found my way.
Emma Bonino
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In most marriages, there is a contented partner and a restless one.
Jennifer Wilson
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I am a restless soul hungry perhaps wretched.
Bob Dylan
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It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed.
Ian Mcewan
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There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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This will of Stirner's, this restless probing of all given knowledge, this endless questioning, and the continuous bending towards new understanding.
John Carroll
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Restless at home, and ever prone to range.
John Dryden
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I've always been a sort of curious and restless person. I've always wrestled with ambition.
Lydia Polgreen
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whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.
Ayn Rand
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I don't know where to place my body. Everyone notices that about me. I'm very restless.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
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For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems not to have been a restless man.
George W. S. Trow
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I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.
Beth Henley
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I have always been restless, had a lot of energy.
Riz Ahmed
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Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery; the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The work of Liszt I most admire is the music he wrote toward the end of his life. This is often music of tremendous inventiveness. The music seems to be seeking something. It tends to be restless, unpredictable, often very sad.
Michael Hersch