This country has been unconscious, and it’s got to awake. That’s my belief.
Someone who’s awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like.
If he could sleep on it. He would make his bed with white sheets And disappear into the white, Like a man diving, If he could be certain That the light Would not keep him awake, The light that reaches To the bottom.
There’s always been some concern that adult subject matter should be quarantined from a page that attracts children. Unlike late at night, when ‘South Park’ and ‘Colbert’ are on, impressionable minds are wide awake when the newspaper arrives.
My fans have been the power behind me and beside me, they have been holding me awake, and so they are my winter storm.
I love the smell of frying liver. It kind of releases a sweetness into the air, and it kind of prickles your nose, and it kind of makes you awake… it gets me excited.
I like a fragrance that you notice and want to find out more about – get a bit closer. I don’t want to walk in and be jolted awake by someone’s smell.
I just stand by the things I believe in and if that upsets people, which it often does, then we got a situation on our hands. Everybody is okay and safe. I’m just blessed to be awake.
Having quiet time mentally is key in harnessing our intuition, and being awake when others are asleep allows for us to be with our thoughts.
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.
For me, that is what my mission seems to be in my life on earth – to be awake, to stay awake, and to bring a certain kind of consciousness to the world, and to myself.
John F. Kennedy went to bed at 3:30 in the morning on November 9, 1960, uncertain whether he had defeated Richard Nixon for the presidency. He thought he had won, but six states hung in the balance, and after months of exhaustive campaigning, he was too tired to stay awake any longer.
For my eyes, I think an eyelash curler makes me look much more awake, even when I haven’t gotten much sleep. It’s a really important tool for a mom to have. The MAC one works for me.
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
You should not actually stay in bed for very long awake, because your brain is this remarkably associative device, and it quickly learns that the bed is about being awake. So you should go to another room – a room that’s dim. Just read a book – no screens, no phones – and, only when you’re sleepy, return to the bed.
I used to not want to die in any way but in my sleep when I was a young man. I’d like to die awake now, if possible, with people around me who love me.
I love doing a lot of things I’m told I can’t do. I think that’s what drives me and keeps me awake every day.
Because I read so much nonfiction for work, I enjoy fiction most, especially detective novels and mysteries that keep me awake at night.
There’s nothing I’d say that keeps me awake at night, but I think that – when you’re working with a group of people that are so beyond talented – that, every day, you wake up going, ‘All right, I gotta fight to stay at the same level as these people.’ That’s what makes it fun.
Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.
Most people aren’t lying awake at night worrying about a nuclear threat. But we are unnerved by a lot of how technology is coming into our lives and starting to infuse our lives. And we question whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing.
We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
We know that efficiency and effectiveness are increased when you’re getting sufficient sleep, and it will take you longer to do the same thing on an underslept brain, which means you end up having to stay awake longer. So goes the vicious cycle.
I have a green juice every day because it makes me feel more awake; it makes my skin healthier.
When I had my first boy it all started and that male energy seemed to keep me awake but since my daughter, who’s incredibly serene, I can’t seem to stop sleeping because she’s asleep all the time. It’s a pattern.
I was asleep at the wheel before cancer shook me awake.
I just felt something was missing from my vision of what Tycho should eventually be. It took several years of learning new recording and production techniques to get to a point where I felt I could make a record like ‘Awake.’
I was awake for the therapy, it was documented by a film crew. I am proud to have taken part of helping millions of people even if it has bad results.
I’m one of those people who lies awake all night and worries about all the horrible things that can go wrong, whether a comma was wrong.
One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive ‘talking to’ was all I got.
I was the person who stayed awake reading by the nightlight until the scary shadows made me crazy.
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
When we’re awake, cortisol can fragment memories – one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas.
During my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake. One of them was the National Republican Convention in San Francisco, which produced the greatest disaster the Republican Party has ever known – Nominee Barry Goldwater.
I was a big fan of ‘Awake’ and also ‘Lone Star.’
I eventually turned the fridge and freezer off – they were empty anyway – and the boiler, desperate to save money, shocking myself awake in the morning with the shortest, coldest showers, and boiling a kettle of water twice a week to bath my young son.
Don’t go to sleep now, for you have been awakened. Don’t shut your eyes, or you will put out the light. Stay awake to the power and force that guides and protects your divine essence.
When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.
Buddhist mindfulness is about the present, but I also think it’s about being real. Being awake to everything. Feeling like nothing can hurt you if you can look it straight on.
Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
I’m a shockingly bad sleeper. In bed very late. Awake at the crack of dawn.
I looked on YouTube for sleep deprivation and there were videos of people experimenting with staying awake for a while. You saw all the different stages.
I’m quite well-rehearsed in having mental days; being awake at the crack of dawn and still having to be awake late at night.
As a novelist, I’m incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t lie awake at four o’clock in the morning, worrying.
To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.
Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I’m concerned that this will affect the quality. I might have a Scotch to keep me going, but I like to be as awake and as alert as possible.
To be on ‘Coast to Coast,’ you have to be willing to stay awake in the middle of the night. But in return you get a great audience of millions of listeners all across the nation.
I don’t sleep very well when I travel. And as a result, I tend to be awake in cities when everyone else is asleep.
I think it is good when your blood is pumping, you are feeling lively, nice and warm, you are loose, you are awake, and your brain is switched on.
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake – Aye, what then?
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, ‘Where have I gone wrong?’ Then a voice says to me, ‘This is going to take more than one night.’
I don’t see anyone for the first hour and a half that I’m awake. I don’t like to talk, and I don’t like to hear any sounds. People know not to bother me! I use that time to read, and make lists and notes of things I have to do later in the day.
My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.
If our hearts are ready for anything, we will spontaneously reach out when others are hurting. Living in an ethical way can attune us to the pain and needs of others, but when our hearts are open and awake, we care instinctively.
