Quotes about sleep
sleep night might
Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from him. Jonathan Safran Foer
sleep pieces body
...he enclosed pieces of string that he used to measure out his body--his head, thigh, forearm, finger, neck, everything. He wanted me to sleep with them under my pillow. He said that when he came back, we would remeasure his body against the string as proof that he hadn't changed.
sleep mind wish
My mind is a chest of drawers. When I wish to deal with a subject, I shut all the drawers but the one in which the subject is to be found. When I am wearied, I shut all the drawers and go to sleep. Napoleon Bonaparte
sleep fanaticism
Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.
sleep world wakes-you
Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.
sleep soldier battle
I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers
sleep soul praying
The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take, If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.
sleep blessing afternoon
Then blessings on thee, my afternoon torpor Thou makest a prince of a mental porpor.
sleep sheep people
Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature.... So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French premiers or sheep, And people who ought to arise from bed Yawn and go back to sleep instead.
sleep soul politics
Abracadabra, thus we learn The more you create, the less you earn. The less you earn, the more you're given, The less you lead, the more you're driven, The more destroyed, the more they feed, The more you pay, the more they need, The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.
sleep human-nature legislature
Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.
sleep together
Success and rest don't sleep together. Og Mandino
sleep boredom personality
Perhaps election fever is developing into something more like sleeping sickness, as the utter boredom of a contest in which almost all the attention seems to be on personalities and polls wears us all down. I just wish they would get on with it. Norman Tebbit
sleep fundamentals language
Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep. Northrop Frye
sleep night government
I sleep so much better at night, knowing that America is protected from thin pickles and fast ketchup. Orrin Hatch
sleep opportunity men
Society is to the individual what the sun and showers are to the seed. It develops him, expands him, unfolds him, calls him out of himself. Other men are his opportunity. Each one is a match which ignites some new tinder in him unignitible by any previous match. Without these the sparks of individuality would sleep in him forever. Orison Swett Marden
sleep rose atheism
The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep They told their comrades, and to Sleep return'd. Omar Khayyam
sleep third title
All I could think about was that I had one more to go. I couldn't sleep because I have a lot to do if I want to get that third title in a row.
sleep trying tomorrow
Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow. Elizabeth Smart
sleep
All we do is sleep. We are very tired.
sleep writing giving
My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
sleep noble aristocracy
All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
sleep mirrors feelings
As I get older, my skin shows more of how I am feeling, like a mirror. If I am stressed, or not getting enough sleep, I see it in my face right away. Joanne Froggatt
sleep play useless
It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep. John Cage
sleep heart body
Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest. James Taylor
sleep average two
The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep. James Thurber
sleep equality ties
We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep. Olive Schreiner
sleep mexican toys
The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love. Octavio Paz
sleep impossible tense
Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon. Norman Vincent Peale
sleep insomnia people
I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia. Emilie Autumn
sleep men evil
In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world. Emile M. Cioran
sleep animal insomnia
The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot.
sleep tragedy sitting
I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.