Sleeplessly Quotes

#1. The world loses one of its six thousand languages every two weeks, and children have stopped learning half of the languages currently spoken in the world. It's been argued that languages are under greater threat than any endangered bird or mammal.

Christine Kenneally

#2. Faith is the fool's excuse.

James Frey

#3. You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything.

Nellie McKay

#4. That, I suddenly understood, was the sad part: once all this had mattered so much more.

Jon Fine

#5. For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.

Philip Yancey

#6. At home in bed that first night I had patchy, mundane dreams about normal things. It would be nobler and less uncomfortable to write that I tossed sleeplessly.

Darin Strauss

#7. She paced her room all day, tossed sleeplessly in her bed all night. At dusk, she sat in her window and poured all her longing and desire into her songs, hoping he would somehow hear her and return.
And he did.

Kate Forsyth

#8. Taking a deep breath, I turned around to face the doors. I went down the hall, prepared to kill my father.

Amanda Hocking

#9. I think water transport will see a revival. However, we're not going to replay the 20th century. The industrial city of that era will not be revived. Our cities are going to contract. Many of them will contract as a whole but densify at their core.

James Howard Kunstler

#10. The ideal boss for a growing leader is probably a good boss with major flaws, so that one can learn all the complex lessons of what to do and what not to do simultaneously.

Warren G. Bennis

#11. And my instincts tell me that Raffe is mine. I found him first.

Susan Ee

#12. Allow everything else to vanish
Save and except your cherished dreams,
For your cherished dreams
Are treasured sleeplessly
By God Himself.

Sri Chinmoy

#13. Death is the mother of beauty, mystical,
Within whose burning bosom we devise
Our earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly.

Wallace Stevens

#14. Goodness itself, in other words, if it is sufficiently committed to plausible, right-handed, strong-arm methods, will in the very name of goodness do all and more than all that evil ever had in mind.

Robert Farrar Capon

#15. Do you want to be happy?
Then make your life as soulfully simple
As sleeplessly breathing.

Sri Chinmoy

#16. I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.

Aphra Behn

#17. Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

William Blake

#18. The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. World peace can blossom throughout the length and breadth of the world only when the world-peace-dreamers, world-peace-lovers and world-peace-servers desperately, sleeplessly and breathlessly long for the full manifestation of peace here on earth.

Sri Chinmoy

#20. I couldn't will my beloved Berlin streets across the world or make the people I loved appear when I needed them, but by summoning the flavors of Berlin and the foods of my loved ones, my kitchen became my sanctuary, the stove my anchor.
Distance means nothing when your kitchen smells like home.

Luisa Weiss

#21. I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.

Dave Matthews