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And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.

Soren Kierkegaard

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Charlotte Bronte

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

Thomas Hobbes

Once upon a time I was so restless in love / When things were fine I changed my mind just because / Now I see how wrong and reckless I've been / Each frog has a prince / Just waiting inside of him, ... Somebody's Miracle.

Liz Phair

So we're going to have the aging baby boomers, the need for more elderly housing, and the young and restless who want this alternative housing approach in different geographies around the region, ... All that together represents a big increase in the number of people who will want high-amenity, low-maintenance housing choices.

Sam Williams

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?

Tryon Edwards

America sometimes grows very restless when they can't get their way.

Joel Diemond

Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.

Adelaide Anne Procter

It was great music, ... but it has passed. It is wonderful to recall it, fun to hear it, but that is not for me: I get too restless, too bored; I need something new.

Joe Zawinul

The market looks just restless.

Tsutomu Yamada

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow.

Fanny Burney

...Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.

Saint Augustine

[Miller, whose profile eerily matches early portraits of Byron, skillfully blends his restless passion and moments of sour self-awareness. Byron is caustic about his future wife from the first, noting that he would] like her more if she were less perfect. ... Could she not find one in Jane Austen?

Vanessa Redgrave

Imagination must be visited constantly, or else it begins to become restless and emit strange bellows at embarrassing moments; ignoring it only makes it grow larger and noisier.

Patricia Mckillip

The natives are getting restless. It's a tense situation.

Joe Rowe

We still have a great deal to do. That's why New Jersey is so restless. We're only in the middle of a 40- to 50-year plan to connect and expand our commuter rail system.

Martin Robins

The natives were getting restless so to speak, it was very eerie. You could feel a riot building, the looting had already begun.

Andrew James

We get stressed, or we feel down, or we're just restless and instead of doing things like taking a walk or listening to music, we reach for food to take care of it.

Linda Spangle

I grew up in Champaign, so this is very near the land of my people, ... Restless.

Alison Krauss

I know things will happen in God's time and not mine. But I'm getting a little restless.

Carmen Davis

Three restless souls can be at peace now.

David Evans

He's not eating, he's not talking, and he's in a restless, agitated state right now.

Deborah Besley

It's been crazy since the Big East Tournament. After that loss we didn't feel secure. It's been hectic, a little crazy, a little restless, but it was worth the wait.

Ezria Parsons