Wake Up World Quotes

#1. The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe ... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

Tori Amos

#2. It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.

Jane Wiedlin

#3. Author E.B. White once captured the essence of why. "I wake up in the morning unsure of whether I want to savor the world or save the world," White said, "This makes it hard to plan the day.

Anonymous

#4. The loudest sigh in the world would never wake him up.

Haruki Murakami

#5. But I've discovered being a writer is an ongoing apprenticeship, just like everything else in life that matters to me-being a mother, a wife, a daughter, or simply a woman alive in the world, content to be myself. Today at thirty-two, I am glad to wake up each day and begin.

Sue Monk Kidd

#6. What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.

Sue Monk Kidd

#7. The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

D.H. Lawrence

#8. In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.

Jeremiah Wright

#9. The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.

T.D. Jakes

#10. Sometimes I wake up and think I wish id never told the world my story but I know good comes from it

Demi Lovato

#11. It could be enough, maybe, or at least a start, but the problem is that at night I tumble into dreams that aren't dreams at all. I tumble into memories and wake up aching for a dying world and a quiet, cold life that offered me nothing but sitting in a still room.

Elizabeth Scott

#12. There's a moment where Jobs says that one day you will wake up and realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you. I want people to believe that; we're so often bound by obstructions and judges.

Joshua Michael Stern

#13. Some of the most beautiful people in the whole world wake up some days and they don't think that they're pretty.

Taylor Swift

#14. I'm discovering that the people that wake up early are really the trendsetters. They are up giving the commands on what the whole world needs to do so the worker wakes up at 8am but the dreamer, the innovator, the creator, the engineer is up at 3 or 4 in the morning making it happen.

Eric Thomas

#15. The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.

George Saunders

#16. We can wake up one morning and find that the technology of this virtual, inter-connected world wasn't the liberating force we thought, but binds us ever more tightly under the control of the money men.

Anita Roddick

#17. I nearly died three times in 2008, and when you go through those experiences, you realize that you're blessed every day that you wake up. My world changed, my life changed, and with the help of my wife Jane, I was able to survive.

Jon Anderson

#18. Who's to know what makes a bird wake up and decide to change its song? It was written that our world would change and it changed.

Eliot Pattison

#19. Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws. They carry strange customs with them and demand room for bold and audacious action. The future speaks ruthlessly through them. They change the world.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#20. I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter, and able to give people a clean drink of water. I don't want images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change. And if I want that, I had better do something about it.

Emma Thompson

#21. By nature, it's impossible to describe enlightenment! How do you plan on sharing your enlightenment? Hahaha, that's impossible. Wake up! That'll be the end of the world if you ever succeed!

Osamu Tezuka

#22. You are the reason I wake up with a smile on my face, and the reason I go to sleep with a sense of belonging in this world

Erica Orloff

#23. When I was a boy, I used to wake up thinking that the world was ending. I'd get up and look in the mirror and my eyes were sad.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#24. ... it's occurred to her that there are millions, billions, of other men and women in the world who wake up early in their separate beds, greedy for the substance of their own lives, but obliged every day to reinvent themselves.

Carol Shields

#25. Toby Keith, when you wake up tomorrow there's still going to be liberals in the world, mexicans and blacks, Muslims and Jews and high school graduates ... and everyone else who hates your music.

Maureen McCormick

#26. Every time I shot back, What's wrong with living in a dream world? And she'd say, You have to wake up.

Sue Monk Kidd

#27. Wake up and live. It's a fast world out there.

Richard Dreyfuss

#28. We've heard from people all around the world, telling us that this is their reality. People need a way to connect the sometimes really hard reality in which they wake up each morning with the movement of the Spirit.

Shane Claiborne

#29. She makes me grateful for every sunrise. Because I wake up knowing she's in the world.

Kristen Callihan

#30. SO THIS IS HOW NOAH FELT. You wake up one morning and God has forgiven you and you walk around squinting all day because you've forgotten how sunlight feels warm and rough against your skin like a kiss on the cheek from your dad, and the whole world is brighter and cleaner than ever before,

John Green

#31. At that age, it's one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it.

Curtis Jackson

#32. When I wake up in the morning, and I go to the piano, and there's a blank sheet of paper in front of me, by the end of the day, that could be a gold mine. You really do need to wake up and expect that the world is your oyster because it very well may be.

Lesley Gore

#33. One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered ... I'm going to put a mask on and scrawl my name across the face of the world, build cities of gold, come back and stomp this place flat, until even the bricks are just dust. So you can just shut up. All of you. I'm going to move the world.

Austin Grossman

#34. The day you wake up thinking the world is yours is the day you start living.

Samer Chidiac

#35. I wake up feeling like I spent the last three days in a massage parlor. My muscles are relaxed, and I feel refreshed, like I could climb Mount Everest or build an ark or cure the world of minivans.

Victoria Scott

#36. After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.

David Talbot

#37. I feel my work is a success in so far as I get to wake up every morning and do what I love to do more than anything in the world.

Frank Wildhorn

#38. We are the eyes of the world - I knock on your heart, We do not need a key. Our lips, they flow like an endless river; And wake up and dream on the edge of the era.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#39. God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.

William Nicholson

#40. The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

J.B. Priestley

#41. Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!

Criss Jami

#42. There is nothing in the world that we can count on,
even that we will wake up is an assumption

The Dresden Dolls

#43. Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.

Zaha Hadid

#44. What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.

Steve Earle

#45. I want to make sure I'm with a girl that's a good kisser, and that when I wake up, I have coffee and a cigarette. That's all I really want out of life. That, and world domination.

Ryan Adams

#46. People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something-always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons. All phenomena are empty. They contain nothing worth desiring.

Bodhidharma

#47. You know, every morning that I wake up ... I realize that being World Champion is a gift. And let me be the one to tell you I'm loving every minute of it!

Oscar Gutierrez

#48. Many photographers live in a dream world of beautiful backgrounds. It wouldn't hurt them to get a taste of reality to wake them up.

Weegee

#49. Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We are the envy of the world because of what we stand for and how our democratic process, flawed as it may often seem to be, operates. We should take pride in that.

Eliot Spitzer

#50. Chess has given me a lot more than I could ask for. I have been able to feel special, travel the world and do what I truly enjoy. Moreover, chess players love being their own boss and hate having to wake up early!

Viswanathan Anand

#51. Religious life ought to promote growth in the Church by way of attraction. The Church must be attractive. Wake up the world! Be witnesses of a different way of doing things, of acting, of living! It is possible to live differently in this world.

Pope Francis

#52. I would far rather over-estimate the threat [imposed by the Patriot Act] and be proven wrong than to underestimate the threat and wake up one morning in a world where the 21st century's J Edgar Hoover has the power to blackmail anyone in America.

Tim Lee

#53. A handful of lion-hearts can wake the whole world up.

Abhijit Naskar

#54. What life is this? Living in a world of hatred and lies, breathing the same air the dead breathed once, knowing we will wake up one day and find ourselves gone from time and space, and yet we still breathe the air without trembling from the thought.

Nour Zikra

#55. I wake up, but where? I don't just think this, I actually voice the question to myself: "Where am I?" As if I didn't know: I'm here. In my life. A feature of the world that is my existence.

Haruki Murakami

#56. Person's life goes like a dream. In order to understand its sense we must wake up. External changes are useful when they go out From the inner world of a person. Everything that is or isn't in this world, it is here, it is in the soul of each person.

Anastasia Novyh

#57. Why is it that some people in the world get to wake up in beautiful houses with fairly normal parents and enough food in the fridge while the rest of us have to get by on the scraps the universe throws at us? And we gobble them up, so grateful. What the hell are we grateful for?

Heather Demetrios

#58. In many ways, America is on the receiving end of a pendulum that has been swung with great force, and for a long time, outward into the world. The impact is a wake-up call on every level.

Henry Rollins

#59. This is a badly broken world, full of wars and cruelty and senseless tragedy. Every human being who inhabits it is served his or her portion of unhappiness and wake up nights.

Stephen King

#60. Pain is G-d's megaphone to wake up the world.

C.S. Lewis

#61. I wake up every morning, and I go to ballet class no matter what's going on the night before. That's my priority, and that's what makes me feel sane and not removed from the realities of my world.

Misty Copeland

#62. The reason why Englishmen are the best husbands in the world is because they want to be faithful. A Frenchman or an Italian will wake up in the morning and wonder what girl he will meet. An Englishman wakes up and wonders what the cricket score is.

Barbara Cartland

#63. As soon as I leave the world [of the show], I want to turn around and come back. That's how real it is. As soon as I leave the theater I want to wake up and come back the next day and do it all over again. It's that much fun.

Victoria Clark

#64. I think actors, because we're in the world of the characters and the movie, are more isolated, and it always really fun to wake up and be a family with the entire crew.

Angelina Jolie

#65. People feel like if they don't have a voice or a name or the spotlight, then they're invisible. But if you can't wake up in your world, in your life, with your family and your friends, and enjoy it, then forget it. All bets are off, because that's all anybody is guaranteed.

Sandra Bernhard

#66. There's something uncontaminated about her, and I don't even mean sexually or whatever. I mean the way she is, at her core. Like when you wake up and the world has been blanketed by snow overnight, and not a single footstep or tire track has spoiled the untouched perfection of it.

Tammara Webber

#67. The moon sets. The next day you wake up in sheets that smell of fabric conditioner. There is CNN. There is coffee. There is weather. There is your human face in the mirror. The world, you discover, is a place of appalling continuity.

Glen Duncan

#68. I have to say that when you tour the world, obviously, the jetlags and different hours and ways of living and traveling, a lot of hours in the plane, and you wake up in the morning and you're not quite sure where you are, and it is very tiring.

Celine Dion

#69. El Capitan is the most chapping environment in the world: windy, cold, super dry. I wake up twice a night and reapply lotion to my hands. We sand our fingertips to keep them smooth.

Tommy Caldwell

#70. There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

Adam Duritz

#71. Every day of your life, you change the world. Absolutely, yes, we're out to change the world. I mean, you change it whether you like it or not. You wake up and you talk to the grocer. You either kick your dog or you pet him. There's a million decisions you have every day where you change the world.

Jon Foreman

#72. The whole world is drunk and we're just the cocktail of the moment. Someday soon, the world will wake up, down two aspirin with a glass of tomato juice, and wonder what the hell all the fuss was about.

Dean Martin

#73. A feminist is a man or woman who already knows for a fact that men and women are qual and wants society to wake up to that fact, so the world can stop operating at half-strength.

Marlo Thomas

#74. Every day we wake up into a new world, each sleep causes yet another reincarnation.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#75. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I wake up every day just fired up. My one rule is, don't let anyone pinch me, because I don't want to wake up.

Mark Cuban

#76. I see so many fools in this world that sometimes I could just go home and cry about what people do to themselves Hey, wake up, wake up, look here! Think a minute, think a minute. This is your life! You got, what, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty years here, and you gonna be gone.'

J. California Cooper

#77. It is when we finally realize the futility of violence and the invalidity of war will we, the people of this world finally wake up!

Avijeet Das

#78. Mphhh ... What did you say Tyler?' Anna-Louise mumbles on the bed above me.
I stand up, and a tame blue bird lands on my shoulder and tries to nibble my earlobe. I gently shake Anna-Louise fully awake. 'Anna-Louise, wake-up,' I say. 'Wake up
the world is alive.

Douglas Coupland

#79. Watch how your enthusiasm can light up another's fire. This is how we wake up the world.

Amy Ippoliti

#80. I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the world around me.

Drake Bell

#81. We live in a world that is lost and in a moment of intense darkness. Have we fallen asleep when our Lord and Savior has asked us to stay awake with Him? Are we sleeping in spiritually and letting momentous events and opportunities pass us by? My dear friends, let's wake up and draw close to Jesus.

Darlene Zschech

#82. With all the fucked up things going on in the world, just the fact that we can wake up in the morning is kind of a miracle.

John Zorn

#83. There's way too much wonder and mystery all around us to not stay open to more that's going on here. You can wake up, and sense and feel and taste and hear a whole world right here within this one, right here in this breath you're about to take.

Rob Bell

#84. One day all the racists and religious extremists in this world will wake up and realize that they are living in a 60's movie.

Thisuri Wanniarachchi

#85. Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.

Robert Hunter

#86. Wake up:
This world that you dream holds nothing to fear.

Rumi

#87. When we take life for granted, we're assholes. Every day we wake up and the world's still turning- that's a great day.

Edward Lee

#88. One way [to recovery] would be by creating the best possible romance book or happy ending scenario for you ... out od your own experience. Another way would be to look at it as it is: a wake-up call to action to create a more humane world, without discrimination and sexism.

Elina Juusola

#89. I'm not always a positive person. I wake up grumpy, I read the newspaper and I get furious that the world is still at war.

Jason Mraz

#90. Wake up today and shake up the world ... It's a New Year that welcomes you to shine and make your dreams come true.-RVM

R.v.m.

#91. We dream of the world we could have made, and wake up in the world that we did.

Craig Stone

#92. People feel repressed by their own governments; they feel unfairly treated by the outside world; they wake up in the morning, and who do they see - they see people being shot and killed: all Muslims from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Darfur.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#93. With the kids around, this is a different world to me. I spend a lot of time with them till they go to their playschool. I wake up early, have breakfast with them. I come back from work and am with them again till they go to bed by 10 P.M. Touch wood, this is what I wanted always.

Sanjay Dutt

#94. It's not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter.

Emma Thompson

#95. I had the feeling that if it were perfectly quiet, if I could hear nothing, I would never wake up. Something in the world had to pull me back, for every night I went down deep, and if I had any sensation during sleep, it was of going deeper and deeper, trying to reach a point, a line or border.

James Dickey

#96. I have the best job in the world. I wake up every morning energized at the thought of running Rio de Janeiro, the most exciting city on the planet.

Eduardo Paes

#97. This lost world will never be reached and brought back to loyalty to God, until the children of God wake up to the fact that they have a mission in the world. If we are true Christians we should all be missionaries.

Dwight L. Moody

#98. The chime wasn't the most pleasant sound in the world to wake up to, but Eric had awakened to far worse in the past. Gunfire was always a sure way to go from dead to the world to more alive than you'd ever been, assuming none of the bullets actually struck you.

Evan Currie

#99. I've always wanted to wake up one day in a world where I liked the right people, and they lied me in return. I worry it'll never happen.

Kenneth Logan

#100. Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.

Bill Viola