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Quotes About Waking up

At eleven, Kate woke Jake up when she went searching in the cooler for juice. You know, you used to be peaceful, he grumbled. I can't believe you were ever married. Kate said, as she cracked the can open. What did you do, make her stand in the corner all the time?
~ Jennifer Crusie
Mitch woke up the next morning the way he always did: badly.
~ Jennifer Crusie
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.
~ Romain Grosjean
Danny woke up the next day feeling a little off. Not bad, exactly, not unsettled the way he had been the previous morning on the bus, just . . . off. He went down to breakfast and found his mother snoring into her coffee. Danny's dad was away on a business trip, and Danny's mother did not do mornings well. Toast. Toast seemed like a good idea. He slid some bread into the toaster. "Zzz . . . zz . . . " It was taking forever for the toast to pop up.
~ Unknown
Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.
~ Vicki Baum
Waking up in full daylight, he dials 0 and asks if this is Saturday. A reproachful second goes by before the operator says, "This is Friday, sir.
~ David Gates
The funny thin is, you say it like it's so unusual that you've only done it once. But I bet a whole lot of people go through their lives without ever telling the truth, not really. And they wake up in the same body and the same life every singe morning.
~ David Levithan
This was shortly after waking up one morning and realizing that government and god were interchangeable and that most of the people in the landscape of my birth insisted on having one or both determine the form of their lives.
~ David Wojnarowicz
I'm up around 11am to my alarm. Without it I'd sleep into the afternoon.
~ Arlo Parks
I wake up every day with great appreciation for life and appreciation to play this game.
~ Will Grier
What drove my final choice was the reality that I did not wake up a single morning wanting to be president or with the fire and passion needed for a successful campaign. I was not a political figure. It was not me. Once I accepted what that instinct was telling me, the choice was clear, the decision easy. I get asked almost daily if I have any regrets. The answer is no.
~ Colin Powell
It wasn't hot yet. That's why I was up at oh-God-thirty.
~ Jim Butcher
I'm glad I woke up. I always have the sh..tiest dreams, stuff like being late for everything or being pregnant or painfully dying.
~ Unknown
If the word of God is not absorbed by the mind through understanding, it is likely to be lost, like how a dream may slip away after one wakes up in the morning. It can be as if the person has never heard God's word at all.
~ Unknown
She murmured, in that particular Nancy way of hers that grates most when my inner bitch is aching to be let loose, 'Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.' My eyes popped open to see her lemon face standing over me. 'SOMEONE,' I hissed, 'HASN'T EVEN WOKEN UP YET. GOD, WHAT IS YOUR ANEURYSM? CAN'T YOU JUST LEAVE ME ALONE?
~ Rachel Cohn
I usually fall asleep between 11 P.M. - 1 A.M., and I wake up between 6:30 A.M. - 8:00 A.M.
~ Michael Seibel
I'm always up at 7:30, usually earlier. Having three kids will do that.
~ Darius Rucker
The earlier I wake up, the better my day, so I try to get out of bed between 5 A.M. and 7 A.M.
~ Jane Fallon
Every corner of my world is a safe place. Even in the dark of night when I sleep, I am safe. I know tomorrow will take care of itself. My dreams are dreams of joy. I awaken feeling safe and secure. I love waking up. If I awaken with a dream, I ask it to tell me about itself.
~ Louise L. Hay
Around them the other residents of Quebec City were waking up. Coming out into the tender morning light to shovel, to scrape the snow from their cars, to walk to the boulangerie for their morning baguette and café.
~ Louise Penny
There's a foot of space and world of contrast between Cristina and me yet I too know how hard it is to peel back the veneer of your life and to peek at the real. It's like waking up in a room and getting out of bed and realizing the furniture has been completely rearranged. You will eventually find your way out but it will be slow going and you're bound to get some bruises along the way.
~ Jodi Picoult
I fell asleep and dreamed that I was a machine, mimicking the functions of life, creaking and clanking my clumsy way through a world, people too polite to say anything but giggling behind my back, and the little man who sat inside my head pulling the levers and clutches and watching the dials, he was hopelessly mad and was storing up hurts for the day- Mandella—wake up, goddammit, your shift!
~ Joe Haldeman
ahora sintiese una dicha muy grande al despertarse en su nueva morada, pensando en todas las cosas bonitas que había visto el día anterior y en lo que podría ver hoy
~ Johanna Spyri
The first thing he noticed was how quiet it was. This was nothing like the kind of quiet he heard when he woke up in the middle of the night after a bad dream. When that happened, there were always strange, unidentifiable sounds seeping into his room from the tiny gaps where the windowpanes weren't sealed together correctly. At those moments he could always tell there was life outside, even if all that life was fast asleep. It was a silence that wasn't silence at all.
~ John Boyne