Awake Quotes
1093 quotes by 789 authors
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It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.
— Roger Babson
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It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
— Abu Bakr
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
— Honore de Balzac
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I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal…
— Emmanuelle Beart
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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
— Josh Billings
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I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.
— Lewis Black
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There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
— Erma Bombeck
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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let…
— Dale Carnegie
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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often…
— Marc Chagall
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I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning…
— Harlan Coben
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Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive, on this planet, can turn what we call ordinary life into a…
— Dan Wakefield
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To be awake is to be alive.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The thing that keeps me awake at night is a nexus between terrorism and massive destruction...the possibility that a terrorist organization could either acquire a…
— Michele Flournoy
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But Mr. Hale resolved that he would not be disturbed by any such nonsensical idea; so he lay awake, determining not to think about it.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring. When they get…
— Chinua Achebe
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When in the fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness.
— Celia Thaxter
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We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember.
— Nhat Hanh
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Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.
— Thomas Merton
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Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it,…
— Leo Tolstoy
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