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  • Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed: when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again. rosencrantz: I understand you not, my lord. hamlet: I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Kings Quotes , Sleep Quotes
  • The financial calculus that Charlie and I employ would never permit our trading a good night's sleep for a shot at a few extra percentage points of return. I've never believed in risking what my friends and family have and need in order to pursue what they don't have and don't need.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Good Night Quotes , Sleep Quotes
  • The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas, where fragments of great wrecks were drifting, perhaps, and helpless men were rocked upon them into a sleep as deep as the unfathomable waters.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Men Quotes
  • I define "grindin'" as just nonstop work! Nonstop work, nonstop progress. Can't sleep during that grind - I mean, you get a little bit of it, but if you're progressin' at every hour, every second, you are grindin'.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Ace Hood Quotes , Mean Quotes , Sleep Quotes
  • I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Fire Quotes
  • My slumbers--if I slumber--are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not: in my heart There is a vigil, and these eyes but close To look within; and yet I live, and bear The aspect and the form of breathing men.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Heart Quotes , Sleep Quotes
  • We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Animal Quotes