unable to stay still or silent and becoming increasingly difficult to control (usually happening because of impatience, boredom or some sort of dissatisfaction) alternative definition exclusively when describing a horse: refusing to advance; stubornly standing still; moving backwards or sideways
Christian Century
@christiancentury.bsky.social
“Protestant thought determined the type of social order that was under construction. This meant not just ruling a restive territory but also cleansing it of its earlier inhabitants, of their cultures and spiritual ways, and replacing them wholesale with new populations and races.”
– Philip Jenkins
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Maria Popova
@mariapopova.bsky.social
"The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time."
Mary Oliver on creativity: www.themarginalian.org/2026/07/29/m...
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Maria Popova
@mariapopova.bsky.social
"The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time."
Mary Oliver on creativity www.themarginalian.org/2016/10/12/m...
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