Quotes with wide-awake

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  • Audre Lorde Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • William James Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Abraham Cowley Fond archer, Hope! who tak'st thy aim so far,
    That still or short, or wide thine arrows are!
    Against Hope.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Charles Dickens For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Christina Rossetti For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.
    Christina Rossetti
    British poet (1830 - 1894)
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  • Carol Loomis From the minute I got to 'Fortune,' I loved my job. I knew myself to be a virtual dunce about business, and I was wide-eyed about how much I was learning.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Babe Ruth Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Bertolt Brecht High above the lake a bomber flies.
    From the rowing boats
    Children look up, women, an old man. From a distance
    They appear like young starlings, their beaks
    Wide open for food.
    Poems, 1913-1956 This Summers Sky [Der Himmel dieses Sommers], (195
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • James Joyce History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Leo Tolstoy Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Gloria Steinem I hope readers will consider, especially in this age of the World Wide Web, that as miraculous as it is, we still need to be in the same room with all five senses if we are to empathize with each other.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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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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  • Anne McCaffrey I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Ben Horowitz In my own experience as a C.E.O., I would find myself laying awake at 3 A.M. asking questions about my business, and there weren't management books out there that could help me.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Charles M. Schwab In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton In science we resemble children collecting a few pebbles at the beach of knowledge, while the wide ocean of the unknown unfolds itself in front of us.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Asa Gray Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Baltasar Gracian It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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