Quotes with sleep

Quotes 101 till 120 of 202.

  • Samuel Rutherford My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.
    Samuel Rutherford
    Scottish Presbyterian pastor, theologian and author (1600 - 1661)
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Ben Affleck My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's ''yes,'' all's well. That is enough.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Nelson Algren Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
    Nelson Algren
    American writer (1909 - 1981)
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  • Ben Folds Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • William Shakespeare O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bernard Lagat Obviously, I'm suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother.
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  • C. S. Lewis Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Boris Pasternak Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion!
    Doctor Zhivago
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • George Gordon On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
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  • Virginia Woolf One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • William Wordsworth Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us, our life's star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and comet from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • John Bunyan Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.
    John Bunyan
    British writer (1628 - 1688)
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  • Carl Honore Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Leo Burke People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.
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  • Bruce Campbell People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with.
    Bruce Campbell
    American actor, writer and director (1958 - )
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