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Tag Name "Sleeps" (148)

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The 'still, small voice' of God never calls on me to be like another man. It appeals to me to rise to my full stature and fulfill the promise that sleeps within my being.
Sam Keen
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
Adrienne Rich
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Like an animal, cancer sleeps, prowls, hibernates, turns surly or placid.
Marni Jackson
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Yet, when the city sleeps When all the cries are still: The stars and heavenly deeps Work out a perfect will.
Lionel Johnson
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But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs.
Thomas Harris
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A girl who is willing to give every ounce of herself to someone, who could never betray her lover, who never suspects maliciousness of anyone, and whose sexuality sleeps in her, waiting to be stirred.
Steve Martin
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A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.
H. L. Mencken
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Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night and it is not dreamless. Does not your house dream, and dreaming, leave the city for grove or hilltop?
Khalil Gibran
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More like some small, fierce bird of prey, something with a sharp bite. An owl perhaps, that speaks only when the rest of the world sleeps. Jenny will do well enough.
Juliet Marillier
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Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature
Idries Shah
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When the sun sleeps, the darkness awakens! When the shepherd disappears, the wolf appears on the horizon!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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In everyone there sleeps a sense of life lived according to love.
Philip Larkin
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
Sylvia Plath
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I have never been to a court s gracious as the one Neha keeps. Dmitri played a knife through his fingers, one of the three he'd brought back from Neha's territory. She truly believes in giving honor to a visitor. He threw to knife at Jason. He threw it back as Venom added, Thought she might have that guest neatly executed as the court slee
Nalini Singh
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Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others. [Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum Adde Heliconiadum comites quorum unus Homerus Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.]
Lucretius
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Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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...and while ambition sleeps inside of me I content myself with memories of glitter and despair.
Mark Twight
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If I could trade places with any of my sisters for a day, it would be Kim. I want to see what it's like...The only time she sleeps is on the airplane. It's just crazy. I feel bad for her, but I still want to know what it's like.
Kendall Jenner
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He sleeps well who knows not that he sleeps ill.
Publilius Syrus
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Now I am nothing but a veil all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.
Gabriela Mistral
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We are apt to imagine that this hubbub of Philosophy, Literature, and Religion, which is heard in pulpits, lyceums, and parlors, vibrates through the universe, and is as catholic a sound as the creaking of the earth's axle. But if a man sleeps soundly, he will forget it all between sunset and dawn.
Henry David Thoreau
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After love, the man sleeps, while the woman reflects.
Monica Bellucci
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Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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In Eden who sleeps happiest? The serpent.
Derek Walcott
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