Maya Angelou Quotes, Sleep Quotes, Pride Quotes

There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful.

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Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfil All offices of death, except to kill.

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'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Flower Quotes , Sleep Quotes

And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.

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Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.

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To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

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Easy times are the enemy, they put us to sleep. Adversity is our friend, it wakes us up

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My wife and I always have a winter holiday that I call the "fly and flop". In January and February, you don't want culture, you just want to get your bones warm and eat, drink, sleep. We usually go to the Caribbean.

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It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

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It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment.

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Tags : Rajneesh Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Forever 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'.

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Tags : Ace Hood Quotes , Mean Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night; But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread its wings in Nature's light.

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Tags : W. H. Davies Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Butterfly Quotes

God is not dead; nor doth He sleep; ... The wrong shall fail, The right prevail, With peace on earth, good will to men.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Peace Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.

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Tags : Adam Ant Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Brain Quotes

Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!

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Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... " Churchill: "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?" Socialite: "Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!" Churchill: "Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Thinking Quotes

There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and yourself half conscious of everything that is passing around you, than you would in five nights with your eyes fast closed, and your senses wrapt in perfect unconsciousness. At such time, a mortal knows just enough of what his mind is doing, to form some glimmering conception of its mighty powers, its bounding from earth and spurning time and space, when freed from the restraint of its corporeal associate.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Dream Quotes , Sleep Quotes

He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.

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Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.

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