Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Reed

When we fall asleep, we withdraw our awareness from its hypnotic fascination with physical sensation, thereby enabling us to listen with our now awakening sixth sense.

I think everyone would be more worried if we played at 10 a.m.. College guys are a lot more awake at 10 p.m. I think the key is to not make a big deal of it. You stay in the same routine (as you would for a normal 7 p.m. game), you just push everything back three hours.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep -- he hath awakened from the dream of life -- 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.

Our job is to awaken the wealth of the community to do something in their own community.

Bruce Babbitt

That book really awakened people to what was going on,

Clive Sinclair

Many years ago, when I lived in the mini-Siberia they call East Anglia, I was awakened in the early hours by the sound of a pantechnicon being loaded. Peeping through the curtains, I observed the grocer doing a runner with all his chattels and his family.

Anne Lamott

Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.

Alexander MacLaren

I am satisfied, for I awake in Thy likeness.

Deepak Chopra

Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not.

Angelus Silesius

The one awakened liberated sees all things as one unseparated.

Elliott Abrams

History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.

Eckhart Tolle

The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.

Eckhart Tolle

There's something in everybody that longs for that awakening to be more true to yourself.

Eckhart Tolle

Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word.

Eckhart Tolle

Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why there is indeed an enormous acceleration in the awakening process of our species.

Martin Freeman

There are lots of things that keep me awake at night, but work isn't one of them. I mean, no-one's going to die if someone doesn't like what I do. So I don't feel a great pressure.

Max Heindel

It is a law in the universe that a wave of spiritual awakening is always followed by a period of doubting materialism, each phase is necessary in order that the spirit may receive equal development of heart and intellect without being carried too far in either direction.

We need to shrink that equipment. That's what drives us nuts and keeps us awake at night.

Dorothea Dix

While we diminish the stimulant of fear, we must increase to prisoners the incitements of hope, in proportion as we extinguish the terrors of the law, we should awaken and strengthen the control of the conscience.

Dory Previn

In 1973, I broke off from the therapy and decided I could go through one of those episodes on my own, in my house. I found there is no real need to be locked up. I found that I was able to use that kind of awake dreaming that you go into during insanity and look at it and live with it and relate to it and become friends with it.

In any case, his campaign has awakened expectations for economic and social benefits that will be hard to satisfy.

Adam Burish

I lay awake in bed at night, thinking about how it will feel. How great it will feel to win it.

I hope this is the beginning of an Islamic awakening and that it will lead to Islam's triumph in other countries.

Charles Rangel

Oh no, it makes the country a lot more safe, ... The further Bush is away from Washington, the better it is. And sometimes I don't think even Cheney is awake enough to know what's going on.

It was on a bitterly cold night and frosty morning, towards the end of the winter of '97, that I was awakened by a tugging at my shoulder. It was Holmes. The candle in his hand shone upon his eager, stooping face, and told me at a glance that something was amiss.

I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.

Robin Wasserman

'The Waking Dark' is about what happens when something awakens a town's darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.

Brian Boyle

They came out flying and were on a mission. We respected them, but they really took us off guard with how good they executed and how well they played. It's a different season when it comes to the playoffs, and we had a rude awakening to that last year.

The title Prince of Persia: Warrior Within clearly reflects who the new Prince is ? an awakened Master Warrior. He's not the young, inexperienced Prince he was on his first adventure. He is now a warrior of unmatched skills, with a dark heart and a penchant for pain. Knowing his fated death is imminent, the Prince must summon the powers within him to defend what no enemy can take away ? his life.

Charles Rangel

isn't awake enough to know what's going on.

Investors who had been less aware of mutual fund taxes had a rude awakening in 2000, when many funds had low or negative returns but still paid out large taxable distributions. Many shareholders who, in the past, might have been dismissive about fund taxes were horrified to learn they will be paying taxes on fund investments on which they lost money last year.

I guess we saw those results. We just have to get better at what we do. As far as personnel, we have the guys to get it done. It was an awakening for us to realize we've got to get better.

Hu Jintao

It helped spread far and wide the basic values of freedom, democracy, equality, justice and peace, and promoted in a big way the awakening of the people of all countries, especially those of colonial and semi-colonial countries, thus exerting a sustaining influence on the development of human civilization.