Quotes with waking

  • I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

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  • Henry David Thoreau I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Louis Aragon O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.
    Louis Aragon
    French poet (1897 - 1982)
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  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    Spanish playwright (1600 - 1681)
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  • Casey Affleck After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Maya Angelou At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Bill Bryson Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Joaquin Miller Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.
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  • Francis Herbert Hedge Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
    Francis Herbert Hedge
    British philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little dearth.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard 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.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Beth Ditto For me the greatest revenge of all is having a happy adulthood, waking up in my gorgeous turquoise bedroom in the morning beside a person who really inspires me. That's the best revenge a girl-loving girl from the Bible belt could possibly have. And, importantly, it's healthy.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Aristotle Hope is a waking dream.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Aristotle Hope is the dream of a waking man.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • John D. Rockefeller I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Annie Dillard I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Woody Allen It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Brian Austin Green It was really like waking up one morning and going, Wow, I enjoy being with this person more than anybody else in my life, and it just turned out to be mutual.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Bo Bice It's not just about waking up and trying to be a star... It's practice, practice, practice.
    Bo Bice
    American singer and musician (1975 - )
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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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