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Quotes About Awake

I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of a growing and complex industrial civilization. And I don't think the Republican party is really wide awake to that.
~ Alf Landon
It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.
~ Roger Babson
I live a super-healthy lifestyle not because it's sensible or that I'm contrite, but because I need to keep my focus on the music I'm making. To do that, I need to be wide awake.
~ Johnny Marr
Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a phenomenon called circadian desynchronosis which causes one's brain to function slowly at those times of day when it thinks it should be asleep, regardless how wide awake the body is.
~ Evan Davis
When death finds you, may it find you alive.
~ Robin L. Smith
Ceremonies large and small have the power to focus attention to a way of living awake in the world. The visible became invisible, merging with the soil.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Ceremonies large and small have the power to focus attention to a way of living awake in the world. The visible became invisible, merging with the soil. It may have been a secondhand ceremony, but even through my confusion I recognized that the earth drank it up as if it were right. The land knows you, even when you are lost.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Ceremonies large and small have the power to focus attention to a way of living awake in the world. That is the power of ceremony…it marries the mundane to the sacred. The water turns to wine. The coffee to a prayer. The material and the spiritual mingle; transformed like steam rising from a mug into the morning mist.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
There are some moments you'd rather sleep through, pass from point A to point B without awareness of the time passing or the events that carry you from present to future. And it's mostly those moments in which it's smarter-safer- to stay awake.
~ Robin Wasserman
Servants ran to wake the young king, Tamar, already awake and watching from his balcony. Curious, naturally. Not altogether pleased. No more than anyone would be, jolted out of a sound sleep by unexpected elephants.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Sometimes he awoke with a feeling of fragments afloat in his sleep, but he couldn't seem to grasp them and put them together into something worthy of telling at the ritual.
~ Lois Lowry
I heard a cry and awoke and found that I had dreamed, and looking out of my house into the street I found that a flash of lightning had killed a child. Then I knew that the gods still lived.
~ Lord Dunsany
India was awake, and Kim was in the middle of it, more awake and more excited than anyone, chewing on a twig that he would presently use as a toothbrush; for he borrowed right- and left-handedly from all the customs of the country he knew and loved.
~ Rudyard Kipling
The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
~ Wilson Mizner
Awake! Arise! And be exalted! Make your life a success!.
~ Haidakhan Babaji
Yes, that's as may be; but what about the condemned man?' 'Also a dream, except that he remained asleep, while you woke up. Who can tell which of you is the more fortunate?
~ Alexandre Dumas
She wishes nightmares were all that kept her awake. She cannot tell which disturbs here more, the future or the past.
~ Alice Hoffman
Now, as the labor began, it was the storm she recalled. The thrash of wind and trees and the quiet terror that had kept her flat in her bed, wide awake, anticipating disaster but unable to rise to avert it—or to shake her husband, to call for help. There was only silence now, in the small living room. There
~ Alice McDermott
Now mind is clear as a cloudless sky. Time then to make a home in wilderness. What have I done but wander with my eyes in the trees? So I will build: wife, family, and seek for neighbors. Or I perish of lonesomeness or want of food or lightning or the bear (must tame the hart and wear the bear). And maybe make an image of my wandering, a little image—shrine by the roadside to signify to traveler that I live here in the wilderness awake and at home.
~ Allen Ginsberg
Si deseas que tus sueños se hagan realidad, ¡despierta!
~ Ambrose Bierce
IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE physically possible for Erin to be awake at one in the morning. The medication she had taken after dinner—a handful of pills in a multitude of shapes and colors—should have put her to sleep a long time ago. Normally they did. But tonight she was still wide awake.
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Life was a good dream, but now I'm awake. Only demons cling to life after their time is up.
~ Joe Hill
A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.
~ Fanny Burney
Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.
~ Gautama Buddha