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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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I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.
Vivien Leigh
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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 don't feel restless, I just like to travel.
Brad Pitt
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Jazz is restless. It won't stay put & it never will.
J. J. Johnson
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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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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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We live on a restless planet in a violent universe.
Dale Jamieson
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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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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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Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.
John Podhoretz
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'The Young and the Restless' is my favorite television show.
Jesse Ventura
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Ah, current music. What would that be? Ah, really, a lot of it sounds defective to me. It makes me restless.
Bob Dylan
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I have been restless for as long as I can remember.
Henry Rollins
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Waiting makes me restless. When I'm ready, I'm ready.
Reba McEntire
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I'm restless and wildI fall, but I tryI need someone to understand.
Kelly Clarkson
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Blakes Hotel in South Kensington was a particular favourite of mine during what I affectionately think of as my Restless Years.
Julie Burchill
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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