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  • While ye sleep in my arms, I can say things to ye that would be daft and silly waking, and your dreams will know the truth of them.

    Dream   Silly   Sleep  
    Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1368, Dell
  • Freedom is the moment between sleep and waking before selfhood and the world return.

    Freedom   Sleep   World  
  • I would love to have the power to stop waking at 3 a.m. every night to check my e-mail.

    Night   Mail   Waking  
    Source: www.omnivoracious.com
  • I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.

  • It's not just about waking up and trying to be a star... It's practice, practice, practice.

    Stars   Practice   Trying  
  • I have always been thinking about the sounds and shades and aromas of words - fitting them together or disrupting their customary march - more or less every second of my life, waking and sleeping.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.

    "Approaching God : How to Pray". Book by Steve Brown (p. 94), 1995.
  • People never hurt others in moments of personal strength and bravery, when they are feeling good about themselves, when they are strong and confident. If we spent all of our waking moments in that place, then fighting for social justice would be redundant; we would simply have social justice and be done with it, and we could all go swimming, or fishing, or bowling, or dancing, or whatever people do. But it is because we spend so much of our time in that other place, that place of diminished capacity, of flagging energy, or wavering and somewhat flaccid commitment, that we have to be careful.

  • It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare.

  • 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.

    Moving   Reality   Wind  
  • so if you love him, why keep him waiting for 13 years?" "Because I was afraid. Afraid of not being worthy, afraid of not knowing how to love him, afraid of waking up one day and not loving him anymore.

    Years   Knowing   Waiting  
  • I like smoking at home. I like it to be one of the last things I do that day. I don't wake and bake at all; I couldn't do that. If I'm waking and baking, then I'm staying inside my place the rest of the day. I can't start my day off high.

    Home   Smoking   Days Off  
  • Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.

    Smile   God   Children  
    Journal entry (translated by Alexander Dru, 1938).
  • A lot of professional dancers become professional when they turn 15 or 16 years old, when they're still children. So you've trained every single waking moment up until that point for a career that could maybe only last 10 years, maybe longer if your body holds up, if your injuries are kept at bay.

    "Joan Chen and Amanda Schull Interview MAO’S LAST DANCER". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 18, 2010.
  • We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

    Dream   Sleep   Waking  
    Nathaniel Hawthorne (2005). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.124, Prestwick House Inc
  • There's this point between conscious and subconscious when you realize you were asleep and resting, and you were having all kinds of anxiety dreams about the film and all the things that can go wrong. You get in this hypnagogic state, where you're waking up and realizing, "Oh, it was just a dream."

    Dream   Anxiety   Waking  
    Source: collider.com
  • Far, far away, there is a beautiful Country which no human eye has ever seen in waking hours. Under the Sunset it lies, where the distant horizon bounds the day, and where the clouds, splendid with light and colour, give a promise of the glory and beauty which encompass it. Sometimes it is given to us to see it in dreams.

    Bram Stoker (2016). “Under the Sunset: And Other Stories”, p.4, The Floating Press
  • Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking.

    Sir Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works”, p.140
  • Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house

    Dream   Psychosis   House  
  • Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life

    Dream   Art   Waking Life  
  • Ten years dropped from a man's life are no small loss; ten years of manhood, of household happiness and care; ten years of honest labor, of conscious enjoyment of sunshine and outdoor beauty; ten years of grateful life--one day looking forward to all this; the next, waking to find them passed, and a blank.

    Mary Mapes Dodge (1866). “Hans Brinker: Or, The Silver Skates, a Story of Life in Holland”, p.262
  • and how we are all preparing for that abrupt waking, and that calling, and that moment we have to say yes, except it will not come so grandly, so Biblically, but more subtly and intimately in the face of the one you know you have to love

    Faith   Calling   Faces  
  • I'm so tired after dinner I fall asleep with my clothes on, almost as soon as my head hits the pillow, and so I forget to ask God, in my prayers, to keep me from waking up.

    Prayer   Fall   Tired  
    Lauren Oliver (2011). “Hana: A Delirium Short Story”, p.22, Hachette UK
  • You're looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it's hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.

    Sleep   Names   Legs  
  • Every morning, I get up, get out of bed, and get on my knees and thank God for waking up in America ... (She is) the light of the world ... A nation of heroes ... The real stars are wearing body armor on top of their battle dress uniforms in 130 degree heat and they do not have stunt doubles to come in for them when the going gets rough and the bullets and the shrapnel start flying. They are the real stars, fighting terrorism and trying to free a nation.

  • None but the lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings.

    Wings   Heaven   Larks  
    John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly: Selected Prose and Dramatic Work”, p.117, Psychology Press
  • And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love, all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room, an everywhere. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown, Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.

    Fear   Sight   Sea  
    John Donne, Theodore Redpath (2009). “The Songs and Sonets of John Donne”, p.227, Harvard University Press
  • Making something secret makes it too important, elevates it to the point where it runs your life from the shadows. If you hide what's at your core from other people for too long, sooner or later you end up hiding it from yourself and waking up with no idea of who you are.

    Running   Ideas   Long  
    Michael Marshall Smith (1998). “One of Us”, Bantam
  • All the time it's a changing And all the dreamers are waking.

    Time   Dreamer   Waking  
    Song: Nocturn, Album: Aerial, 2005
  • I did almost every job in the bank. It was real life, waking up in the morning, putting on a suit and tie and then having to go to work.

    Morning   Jobs   Real  
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