Best wake-up & may Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Lord, spit on our eyes that we may see, how to wake up from this tragedy.”

May Eye Lord Seeing Tragedy Wake Up Invisible Visible Spit

“Asked whether donor nations may be becoming fatigued ... The fatigue may be there, but I don't think we can justify it in the face of such misery. We may need to wake up our conscience and our conscience must force us to act.”

Thinking Needs May Faces Force Nations Becoming Conscience Wake Up Misery Justify Fatigue Donors

Author:Kofi Annan

“The loss of a job may be the wake up-call needed to redeem the fire of your genius.”

May Jobs Loss Fire Genius Needed Wake Up Wake Up Call

Author:Dan Miller

“Little girls do not wake up in the morning and say "I dream of being a prostitute." It is a terrible, terrible life. Body invasion is more traumatic than even getting beaten up. In certain circumstances, obviously, it may be a way to survive.”

Way May Littles Dream Body Certain Girl Morning Circumstances Terrible Wake Up Beaten Invasion

Author:Gloria Steinem

“The danger is that we may fail to perceive life's greatest meaning, fall short of its highest good, miss its deepest and most abiding happiness, be unable to render the most needed service, be unconscious of life ablaze with the light of the Presence of God - and be content to have it so - that is the danger. That some day we may wake up and find that always we have been busy with the husks and trappings of life - and have really missed life itself.”

May Has Beens Light Fall Failing Missing Danger Needed Highest Wake Up Busy Perceive Unconscious Abiding Presence Of God

Author:Phillips Brooks

“I have a dreadful feeling in my bones that future historians may write of the May 2014 elections: "This was the wake-up call from which Europe failed to wake up."”

Writing May Feelings Europe Wake Up Election Bones Historian Wake Up Call

Author:Timothy Garton Ash

“Tad Homer-Dixon is a rare kind of public intellectual, who combines real expertise with a commitment to communicate to the widest possible readership. In The Ingenuity Gap he wants us all to wake-up to the fearful possibility that our blithe trust in science and technology may be misplaced. Human ingenuity may not be capable of coping with two emerging crises of this century and the next: population growth and environmental despoliation. Read Homer Dixon's wake-up call and you will see the future very differently.”

“Purify your heart. Cleanse it. Make it a wake-up routine. Your environment may be harsh, difficult and tumultuous but if you work on your heart, you can be calm amidst all those challenges.”

Ifs Heart May Difficult Challenges Emotion Environment Wake Up Calm Routine Harsh Our Environment

Author:Rita Zahara

“We may very well wake up in the not-too-distant future in a culture that is not only unreceptive but openly hostile to the church and the gospel of Jesus Christ, a culture in which those who proclaim the gospel will be labeled as bigots and fanatics, a culture in which persecution of Christians will be not only allowed but applauded.”

Wells May Christian Culture Jesus Christ Church Religious Jesus Christ Wake Up Persecution Hostile Fanatics Bigots

Author:Josh McDowell

“Happiness comes from within you. If your heart is happy, you can do anything you put your mind to do. Purify your heart. Cleanse it. Make it a wake-up routine. Your environment may be harsh, difficult and tumultuous but if you work on your heart, you can be calm amidst all those challenges. So, to be happy, you not only have to work with all your heart. You have to work on your heart. You will glow from the inside out”

Ifs Mind Heart May Difficult Can Do Challenges Environment Wake Up Calm Routine Within You Harsh Our Environment

Author:Rita Zahara

“The Princess Elizabeth, of England, was found dead with her head resting on her Bible, open at these words, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." So may we all fall asleep at last when the day's work for Jesus is over, and wake up in heaven to find ourselves in the delicious rest that remaineth for the people of God.”

People Giving May Lasts Fall Found Jesus Heaven Labor England Wake Up Heavy Princess Delicious Found Dead

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“Try to have a good day today, wherever you are, whatever you do, whoever is near, if no one is near. Try to be happy, because you may not see tomorrow. There is someone this morning, who didn't wake up, who will never see this day. Try to feel lucky that this is not you.”

Ifs Feels Trying May Today Morning Tomorrow Lucky Wake Up This Day Good Day Wherever You Are Have A Good Day Trying To Be Happy

Author:Margaret Cho

“In every generation there are a few people who are authentically funny. The cosmetics change. You may not be able to articulate it, and you may laugh at them and get a certain amount of enjoyment. But when you're asleep at night, and you wake up at 3 in the morning, and you're alone in your bed, you know who's really funny.”

People Knows May Able Night Certain Morning Laughing Generations Amount Bed Wake Up Enjoyment Cosmetics

Author:Woody Allen

“The study of dreams may be considered the most trustworthy method of investigating deep mental processes. Now dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses have the characteristic of repeatedly bringing the patient back into the situation of his accident, a situation from which he wakes up in another fright.”

May Dream Process Situation Study Wake Up Method Patient Accidents Characteristics Trustworthy Neurosis Fright Investigating

Book:Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Source: Beyond the Pleasure Principle

“There is a sense of urgency and this is a time for teachers and I think that there is this psychic awareness with this new generation of seekers that they are here to teach and so that they really need to wake up fast, much like we did, because we know that we must show up at a very high level and so therefore I think that there is an unconscious sense of urgency like I need to do this and not just for me, but for something greater and they may not be able to put that into words, but they are experiencing it.”

Thinking Knows Needs May Shows Able Levels Teach Greater Teacher Generations Awareness Wake Up Unconscious Psychics Seekers Urgency New Generation High Level Sense Of Urgency

Author:Gabrielle Bernstein

“Long ago you may have given up control of your brain and set it on autopilot either because it just felt like too much work. And it is work! But for me, this work was well worth it for the prospect of not waking up sad every day.”

Wells May Long Given Felt Brain Too Much Wake Up Waking Long Ago Worth It Given Up Too Much Work Autopilot

Book:The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)

Source: The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)

“I never wake up wondering whether the day is going to be a meaningful one or whether my labors are gonna be worthwhile. They may be futile, but it doesn't mean they're not important, in a moral sense and in an historical sense.”

May Mean Important Wonder Moral Labor Wake Up Historical Meaningful Worthwhile

Author:Eric Reeves

“Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with Perry? You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.”

“I like to wake up each morning and not know what I think, that I may reinvent myself in some way.”

Thinking Knows Way May Morning Wake Up

Author:Stephen Fry

“Maybe one night I’ll be asleep and I’ll feel a hand like a dove on my cheekbone and feel her breath cool like peppermints and when I open my eyes my mom will be there like an angle, saying in the softest voice, When you are born it is like a long, long dream. Don’t try to wake up. Just go along until it is over. Don’t be afraid. You may not know it all the time but I am with you. I am with you.”

Knows Feels Trying May Long Dream Hands Eye Night Voice Born Mom Wake Up Breaths My Mom Angle One Night Dove Know It All Cheekbones Peppermint

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“. . some moment happens in your life that you say yes right up to the roots of your hair, that makes it worth having been born just to have happen. laughing with somebody till the tears run down your cheeks. waking up to the first snow. being in bed with somebody you love... whether you thank god for such a moment or thank your lucky stars, it is a moment that is trying to open up your whole life. If you turn your back on such a moment and hurry along to business as usual, it may lose you the ball game. if you throw your arms around such a moment and hug it like crazy, it may save your soul.”

Source: Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.

“The poet dreams of the classroom I dreamed I stood up in class And I said aloud: Teacher, Why is algebra important? Sit down, he said. Then I dreamed I stood up And I said: Teacher, I’m weary of the turkeys That we have to draw every fall. May I draw a fox instead? Sit down, he said. Then I dreamed I stood up once more and said: Teacher, My heart is falling asleep And it wants to wake up. It needs to be outside. Sit down, he said.”

Want Needs Heart May Said Important Dream Fall Class Teacher Poet My Heart Draws Wake Up Classroom Weary Foxes Turkeys Stood Up Algebra Falling Asleep

Book:Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

Source: Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

“Every time I go to sleep, I know I may never wake up. How could anyone expect to? You drop your tiny, helpless mind into a bottomless well, crossing your fingers and hoping when you pull it out on its flimsy fishing wire it hasn't been gnawed to bones by nameless beasts below.”

Knows Mind Wells May Sleep Wake Up Fingers Bones Tiny Beast Fishing Helpless Wire Going To Sleep Crossings Nameless

Author:Isaac Marion

“You're a mad scientist,' said Maggie, in what may well have been intended as a reassuring tone. 'We don't expect you to be nice. We just go to bed every night hoping you won't mutate us before we wake up.' Dr. Abbey blinked at her. 'That's...almost sweet. In a disturbing sort of a way.”

Way Wells May Has Beens Said Night Nice Sweet Bed Scientist Wake Up Mad Tone Every Night Being Nice Drs Disturbing Reassuring Maggie Abbey Mad Scientist

Author:Mira Grant

“If I'm away from you for more than an hour, I can't stop thinking about you. I carry you in my spirit. I pray for you more than I pray for myself...I know you don't believe in fairy tales. But, if you did, I'd want to be your knight in shining armor. You've been through so much. I don't want to see you hurt anymore. Now I may not be able to give you all that your used to. But I do know I can love you past your pain. I don't want you to worry about anything. You just wake up in the morning, that's all you have to do and I'll take it from there...There's one condition...You have to be my wife”

“I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. With that definition in mind, let’s think about love. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow—that’s vulnerability.”

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“I have always felt that the moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.”

Source: I Leap Over The Wall - Contrasts And Impressions After Twenty-Eight Years In A Convent

“In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in various ways, God calls us to wake up and learn how to love and respect one another, period.”

“I may be boring, but it would be to wake up by my dog and then my daughter.”

May Would Be Mother Dog Daughter Wake Up Boring My Daughter My Dog Mother Daughter

Author:Izabella Scorupco

“I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here are a few I would suggest: "Alcohol will turn you into the same asshole your father was."; "Drinking will significantly improve your chances of murdering a loved one."; "If you drink long enough, at some point you will vomit up the lining of your stomach."; "Use this product and you may wake up in Morocco wearing a cowboy suit and tongue-kissing a transmission salesman."”

Source: 3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?

“Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them, now.”

Thinking Wells May Asks Parent Chance Generations Wake Up Climate Change Occasions Future Generation Gore Inconvenient Inconvenient Truth

Author:Al Gore

“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.”

People World Want Should May Stills Country States Seems Nations Process United United States Pride Wake Up Democratic Envy Flawed Democratic Process

Author:Eliot Spitzer

“What a glorious night. Every face I see is a memory. It may not be a perfectly perfect memory. Sometimes we had our ups and downs. But we're all together and you're mine for a night. And I'm going to break precedent and tell you my one-candle wish...that you would have a life as lucky as mine, where you can wake up one morning and say, 'I don't want anything more'. Sixty-five years. Don't they go by in a blink?”

Want Years May Sometimes Together Faces Night Wish Memories Perfect Break Morning Five Mines Lucky Wake Up Glorious Five Years Candle Sixty Ups & Downs Blink Precedent

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“With the success of the last three or so years, when a lot of people start treating you differently, there's a danger that you may start to think of yourself differently. You rely on your friends to say, 'Hey, wake up!”

People Thinking Years May Lasts Three Danger Wake Up Hey Rely Think Of You

Author:David Schwimmer

“A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.”

May Whole Dream Light Able Lost Hours Wake Up Waking Shed Gloom Dreary Sorrowful Happy Hour

Author:Walter de La Mare

“All the people that were rooting on me to fail, at the end of the day, they have to wake up tomorrow and have the same life that they had before they woke up today. They have the same personal problems they had today. I'm going to continue to live the way I want to live and continue to do the things that I want to do with me and my family and be happy with that. They can get a few days or a few months or whatever the case may be on being happy about not only myself, but the Miami Heat not accomplishing their goal. But they have to get back to the real world at some point.”

People World Way Want May Real Ends Problem Today Goal Cases Failing Months Tomorrow My Family Wake Up Heat The End Of The Day Get Back Real World Miami Personal Problems Miami Heat

Author:LeBron James

“There are two kinds of women: those who marry princes and those who marry frogs. The frogs never become princes, but it is an acknowledged fact that a prince may very well, in the course of an ordinary marrige, gradually, at first almost imperceptibly, turn into a frog. Happy the woman who after twenty-five years still wakes up beside the prince she fell in love with.”

Years Firsts Wells Kind May Stills Two Facts Turns Courses Five Ordinary Wake Up Twenties Five Years Frogs Twenty Five

Book:The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults

Source: The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults

“I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.”

Believe May Doe Reality Dies Prove Wake Up

Author:Thor Heyerdahl

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