Let Her Sleep For When She Wakes Quotes

#1. Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#2. China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will move the world.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#3. My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight.
Her hands asleep beside her.
Her hair draped on the lawn
like a mantle of cloth.
I give her my troth, for our love is whole
I sing her beauty in my soul

Roman Payne

#4. During the week my alarm wakes me up at 6 A.M., so the latest I can sleep on Saturdays is about 7 A.M.

Bobbi Brown

#5. When people sleep, others stay awake to effect changes in the world. Every other person wakes up in the morning to a totally different world

Gossy Ukanwoke

#6. Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Francesco Petrarca

#7. Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes;
When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.

John Dryden

#8. Music. I live it and breathe it. It wakes me up in the morning, puts me to sleep at night and is with me all day.

David Guetta

#9. Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don't want to suffer, don't go to sleep.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#10. You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day; I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep.

Alfred North Whitehead

#11. People tend to remember their dreams in the morning a little bit better and if earlier in the night, when you're in a lot of deep sleep, if someone wakes you, or the phone rings or something, you're really confused.

Shelby Harris

#12. Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.

Iris Murdoch

#13. What does your sorrow do while you sleep? -It's awake and waiting. And when it loses patience, it wakes me up.

Ivo Andric

#14. China? There lies a sleeping giant. Let him sleep! For when he wakes he will move the world.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#15. I wish it were different, but my body clock wakes me up between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. If I want to get enough sleep, I have to be in bed at 10. That means I'm totally a grandma.

Agyness Deyn

#16. Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity.
[Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospere et s'aigrit dans l'adversite.]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#17. Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#18. For we human beings are used to inappropriate things; we are accustomed to the clatter of the incongruous; it is a tune to which we can go to sleep. If one appropriate thing happens, it wakes us up like the pang of a perfect chord.

G.K. Chesterton

#19. When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old

Maxine Kumin

#20. Silence then, and the scent of apple trees, and the nightmare sense of grief that comes when a man wakes again to feel a loss he has forgotten in sleep.

Mary Stewart

#21. When I wake you're never there, but when I sleep you're everywhere.

Michelle Branch

#22. Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#23. No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow.

Jan Koum

#24. Vladimir Putin and Russia. 'When a bear wakes up from hibernation, he doesn't eat a few blueberries and then go back to sleep.' They have their eyes on Eastern Europe, and if NATO is not willing to stand up forcefully to this threat today, it will only become more difficult to do so down the road.

Seth Moulton

#25. I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder.

Pat Nixon

#26. It's great, but there is one problem. She doesn't sleep. At night she seems to turn into a vampire. She wakes up every night five or 10 times, asking for things, singing, calling out.

Goran Ivanisevic

#27. 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.

John Bunyan

#28. If a man dreams about sleeping with Marilyn Monroe, he's certainly entitled to that. But when he wakes up, he has to acknowledge that he is married to someone else.

Daniel Barenboim

#29. Go mortals, sweat, pant, toil, range the lands and seas to pile up riches you cannot keep; glory that will not last. The life we lead is a sleep; whatever we do, dreams. Only death breaks the sleep and wakes us from dreaming. I wish I could have woken before this.

Francesco Petrarca

#30. A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.

Anthony Trollope

#31. Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day; he sleeps and wakes with it, be it what it may - wealth or self, pleasure or renown.

Martin Luther

#32. I wake when my wife wakes, at 7:30 A.M. I'd like to sleep longer, but she has to go off to work, and I'd be plagued with guilt.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

#33. 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.

Soren Kierkegaard

#34. Now I understand - how sleep allows you to forget, but your pain wakes with the dawn, worse because for a split second you don't remember what you've suffered.

Amy Engel