Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven Hall

These conflicting views suggest that compensation committee members are awake to the pay versus performance issue and their responsibility to exercise independent oversight.

The sleeping giant is awake -- wide awake -- and we're paying close attention.

Patty Hearst

For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.

Pico Iyer

The beauty of being foreign is that it snaps you awake.

Vera Farmiga

I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.

Eric Hyman

I've agonized over this. I lay awake at night trying to think about, 'What is the right price for tickets?' You sense the demand, but I've got to be sensitive to our supporters.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.

E. B. White

The best thing for being sad, replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting.

Day and night, true guru remains awake and aware; he never sleeps or dreams.

Do not be led by others; awaken your own reason; amass your own experience; and decide for yourself your own path.

Sathya Baba

Doing one's duty, however small, in an unattached manner gives rise to the awakening of self-awareness.

It was a year of awakening for the new investor on Wall Street and it was a very quick and sudden reversal of fortunes for many. We ran the emotional gamut from total irrational thinking and perception to reality and capitulation. Last year's market did reinforce the notion that abuses and excesses are eventually corrected and eventually reach a level of overreaction -- and that's how the year ended.

It serves as a rude awakening when they show up and they realize 'Boy, it never occurred to me this might not be the right place.' ... In my mind, that is the function of really bad counseling.

It's sort of an awakening of sorts. Now that we have the technology to do this so easily, it might be a more normal thing in the future.

It?s so important for students and families. No mom or dad wants to lay awake at night and wonder whether their child is safe at school.

Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

Tim Roth

Before I started, I worried about what I was going to say to the actors. It kept me awake at night. Sometimes you get the questions wrong.

Everything here but the soul of man is a passing shadow. The only enduring substance is within. When shall we awake to the sublime greatness, the perils, the accountableness, and the glorious destinies of the immortal soul?

It's kind of fun, but at times very frustrating. I like a complicated project that can keep me awake nights. Three weeks ago, we were having a lot of scheduling troubles, but now everything seems to be on schedule.

Carl Erskine

Here again, the White Sox have made the World Series and awakened the city. It was always a challenge playing in Chicago. I think (the city) is ripe and ready for (this World Series).

For the mile (1,600) I felt pretty good running the race like that. I was even more nervous for the 800, but I knew if I felt bad after running that mile time then I'd be concerned, but I was more awake and warmed up, so it was good.

I don't think there is a compelling reason to be in equities right now. I would be actually sitting on cash, looking for a better entry into the gold market. Gold has awakened out of 20-year bear market and surprised a lot of people.

Jeff Buckley

I couldn't awake from the nightmare That sucked me in and pulled me underPulled me underOh... That was so real.

Walt Whitman

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

Ferdie Pacheco

He thought he was dying. He was at the ends of exhaustion. He was having trouble staying awake between rounds.

The local church is awakening to become a force that we have not seen before.

Marianne Williamson

An enchanted love, an awakened love, between two people is a blessing on the entire world.

Odilon Redon

I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

One thought cannot awake without awakening others.

James M. Barrie

He looked at her uncomfortably; blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.

The fire is what killed him, not the crash. He had severe burns over a good portion of his body, ... He probably would have been all right had the plane not caught fire. When our deputies got to the scene he was awake and talking to them and the ambulance personnel.

Chris Pronger

You could kind of see after that first game how important he was. Taking the focus off of us and putting it on him, he awakened the team and let us go about our job. It'll be great having him there from a leadership perspective.