Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

The fact is, brethren, we must have conversion work here. We cannot go on as some churches do without converts. We cannot, we will not, we must not, we dare not. Souls must be converted here, and if there be not many born to Christ, may the Lord grant to me that I may sleep in the tomb and be heard no more. Better indeed for us to die than to live, if souls be not saved.

Al Lewis

Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!

Edith Piaf

For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death.

Edith Stein

Who can sleep on the night that God became man?

Edith Sitwell

Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me.

David Hockney

Dawn is about luminosity and so is the iPhone... The little drawings of the dawn are done while I'm still in bed... If you're in my kind of business you'd be a fool to sleep through that... Artists can't work office hours, can they?

David Brooks

If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You're brain is working on the problem anyway.

Benicio Del Toro

When some people get parts, they feel they can now relax, but for me it was always the opposite. Sometimes before I do a movie or before I act out a scene, I may not sleep well the night before. If I don't know what the scene is about, I might get all worked up.

Arthur Rimbaud

Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?

Antonio Tabucchi

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

Cheyenne Jackson

Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy.

Cesar Romero

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

Barbara Kingsolver

Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.

Alain de Botton

Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

Elizabeth Bishop

Insomnia" perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.

Delia Smith

I don't get insomnia, but I do get the odd night when I can't unwind.

Chuck Palahniuk

With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.

Amy Grant

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's purpose in redemption is to make worshipers out of rebels.

Bob Gunton

Put your trust in the Lord....your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank.

Ben Jacobson

It was a little redemption after the Creighton game.

Jan Hus

I trust in the Lord God Almighty ... that he will not take away from me the cup of his redemption, but firmly hope to drink from it today in his kingdom.

C. S. Lewis

If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.

bell hooks

Love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.

Dean Koontz

No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.

Amy Waldman

In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.