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I have a deep conviction that our lives are eternal, that it is waking and sleeping, that we are born together with the people we love lifetime after lifetime.
Author:
Marcia Wallace
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The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.
Author:
Derek Walcott
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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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Mao Tung
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
Author:
Wislawa Szymborska
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Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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There is a certain comfort in waking up and finding that Michael Jackson is still the Big Story. At least it tells you that nothing horrible has happened in the world that would force them to move on to real news.
Author:
Pat Sajak
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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
Author:
John Rockefeller
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The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
Author:
Gail Porter
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How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
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Plato
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We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope.
Author:
Rick Perry
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
Author:
Novalis
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You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.
Author:
Paul Newman
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I'll quit coffee. It won't be easy drinking my Bailey's straight, but I'll get used to it. It'll still be the best part of waking up.
Author:
Megan Mullally
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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
Author:
Henry Miller
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A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.
Author:
Walter Mare
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When I'm not working, I definitely I like waking up at noon.
Author:
Jena Malone
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I think sleep's really important. I value it as much as waking up and having a full day.
Author:
Jena Malone
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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
Author:
James Lowell
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I have many memories of waking up to eat breakfast that my mother carefully prepared for us and her saying, what do y'all want for lunch, and as we're eating lunch, what do y'all want for dinner? It's always about the next meal.
Author:
Lisa Loeb
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In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping.
Author:
Mary Little
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Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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No more waking up at noon, updating FC for an hour, and spending the rest of the day cashing FC checks and watching porn? It was a hard decision, but, like, I'm a man now.
Author:
Philip Kaplan
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It was relatively easy to write 'The Cave of Lost Souls', though, because it came to me one night in a dream. I remember waking up and having this idea for a complete story - from start to finish - in my head, so I jotted it down, then later began writing the thing.
Author:
Paul Kane
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I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.
Author:
Lyndon Johnson
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Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
Author:
William James
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I think it's time for me to get out, because at the moment I'm only thinking about fishing 21 hours a day, and they're the waking moments. And even when I close my eyes I'm thinking about it.
Author:
Rex Hunt
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I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.
Author:
John Hope
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Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
Author:
Frederick Hedge
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
Author:
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.
Author:
Elizabeth Gaskell
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Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
Author:
Margaret Fuller
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Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
Author:
Black Elk
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Author:
Pliny Elder
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I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.
Author:
Annie Dillard
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Waking up with a bad head in the morning is difficult sometimes.
Author:
Caroline Corr
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The Beltway is waking up to the realities of Prsident Obam's budget plan, which taxes, spends, and borrows as far as the eye can see.
Author:
Matthew Continetti
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I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement.
Author:
John Byrne
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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
Author:
Andre Breton
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There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up to face a day when you know that you are going to have to deal with a government office or bureaucrat.
Author:
Neal Boortz
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For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes.
Author:
Bob Beauprez
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
Author:
Pedro Barca
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I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.
Author:
Mitchell Baker
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Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Author:
Aristotle
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Hope is a waking dream.
Author:
Aristotle
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O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.
Author:
Louis Aragon
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It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Author:
Woody Allen
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The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
Author:
James Allen
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After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.
Author:
Casey Affleck
