Awaken Quote by Isoroku Yamamoto

“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. From screenplay: Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)”

— Larry Forrester

Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.

— George R. R. Martin

This whole moment is the groin Of a borborygmic giant who even now Is rolling over on us in his sleep.

— John Ashbery

Get out of your comfort zone. Wake up the sleeping giant in you.

— Chia Thye Poh

A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant.

— William Shakespeare

What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.

— Franz Grillparzer

“Let the sleeping dogs lie, but rise up! You sleeping giants.”

— Bernard Kelvin Clive

He'll probably wake up having sleepless nights about that one.

— Alan Parry

Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever.

— Juliet Marillier

“He who despairs is wrong. Progress infallibly awakens, and, in short, we might say that it advances even in sleep, for it has grown.”

— Victor Hugo

I shall now proceed to my own experience, which hath truly convinced me, the Lord is awakened as one out of sleep; and the…

— Joanna Southcott

Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.

— Arthur Schnitzler