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Awaken the sleep, protect the weak, and guide the strong. – Aaron Bruce	added by anonymous 8 years ago
I think we can use a great Star Wars analogy and say that' the force' will awaken and The Fed will raise that quarter percent today, now we've got to look at how Fed Chair Janet Yellen raises rates. Is it going to be too fast, or too slow or just right ? – Jeff Carbone	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's more difficult to awaken from [this stage] of sleep than [others], whenever you wake up from a deeper stage of sleep, you can experience sleep inertia, which is a feeling of disorientation. – Natalie Dautovich	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It can be a bit off-putting. Many people are overwhelmed, and it raises their hopes. It must be clearly communicated who can stay. We mustn't awaken false hopes. – Colin Turner	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The next step for us is to really move into the districts to try to re-awaken the moderate democrats ... and to never stop fighting for democracy, hong Kong deserves better. – Benny Mok	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I can't imagine this announcement would be made in a public press conference if there was going to be something that was going to awaken and evoke the rawness of all of this once again, i don't think we would be hearing it spoken in that venue if that were the case. – Sharon Holland	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
There are only two choices: A police state in which all dissent is suppressed or rigidly controlled; or a society where law is responsive to human needs. If society is to be responsive to human needs, a vast restructuring of our laws is essential. Realization of this need means adults must awaken to the urgency of the young peoples unrestin other words there must be created an adult unrest against the inequities and injustices in the present system. If the government is in jeopardy, it is not because we are unable to cope with revolutionary situations. Jeopardy means that either the leaders or the people do not realize they have all the tools required to make the revolution come true. The tools and the opportunity exist. Only the moral imagination is missing. – William O. Douglas	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies. – Simone Weil	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development. – Agnes Repplier	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it? – Dejan Stojanovic	added by anonymous 11 years ago
The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen. – George S. Arundale	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. – Isoroku Yamamoto, After Pearl Harbor, Japanese Admiral	added by anonymous 13 years ago
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. – Albert Camus	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He who knows the surface of the earth and the topography of a country only through the examination of maps..is like a man who learns the opera of Meyerbeer or Rossini by reading only reviews in the newspapers. The brush of landscape artists Lorrain, Ruysdael, or Calame can reproduce on canvas the sun's ray, the coolness of the heavens, the green of the fields, the majesty of the mountains...but what can never be stolen from Nature is that vivid impression that she alone can and knows how to impart--the music of the birds, the movement of the trees, the aroma peculiar to the place--the inexplicable something the traveller feels that cannot be defined and which seems to awaken in him distant memories of happy days, sorrows and joys gone by, never to return! – Dr. Jose P. Rizal	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. – Jessamyn West	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile. – Unknown	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning. – Nathan M. Pusey	added by anonymous 14 years ago
History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awaken. – James Joyce	added by anonymous 14 years ago
good and bad!!..we always get mixed with the real truths and paths concerning this two with fanaticism and hypocrisy. till darkness envelopes and you awaken to the father to learn about the real truths. but I pray ye to desire to be with his flock or face condemnation....just do what thou wilt ,conscience and his laws being your compass!! – Moses Valmont	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. – Frank Herbert	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One mind awake can awaken another, The second awake can awaken their next door brother. Three awake can awaken the town By turning the whole place upside down. Many awake can make such a fuss That they finally awaken the rest of us. – Helen Kromer	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Awaken the sleep, protect the weak, and guide the strong.

– Aaron Bruce

added by anonymous
8 years ago

I think we can use a great Star Wars analogy and say that' the force' will awaken and The Fed will raise that quarter percent today, now we've got to look at how Fed Chair Janet Yellen raises rates. Is it going to be too fast, or too slow or just right ?

– Jeff Carbone

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's more difficult to awaken from [this stage] of sleep than [others], whenever you wake up from a deeper stage of sleep, you can experience sleep inertia, which is a feeling of disorientation.

– Natalie Dautovich

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It can be a bit off-putting. Many people are overwhelmed, and it raises their hopes. It must be clearly communicated who can stay. We mustn't awaken false hopes.

– Colin Turner

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The next step for us is to really move into the districts to try to re-awaken the moderate democrats ... and to never stop fighting for democracy, hong Kong deserves better.

– Benny Mok

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I can't imagine this announcement would be made in a public press conference if there was going to be something that was going to awaken and evoke the rawness of all of this once again, i don't think we would be hearing it spoken in that venue if that were the case.

– Sharon Holland

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

There are only two choices: A police state in which all dissent is suppressed or rigidly controlled; or a society where law is responsive to human needs. If society is to be responsive to human needs, a vast restructuring of our laws is essential. Realization of this need means adults must awaken to the urgency of the young peoples unrestin other words there must be created an adult unrest against the inequities and injustices in the present system. If the government is in jeopardy, it is not because we are unable to cope with revolutionary situations. Jeopardy means that either the leaders or the people do not realize they have all the tools required to make the revolution come true. The tools and the opportunity exist. Only the moral imagination is missing.

– William O. Douglas

added by anonymous
10 years ago

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

– Simone Weil

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.

– Agnes Repplier

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?

– Dejan Stojanovic

added by anonymous
11 years ago

The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

– George S. Arundale

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

– Isoroku Yamamoto, After Pearl Harbor, Japanese Admiral

added by anonymous
13 years ago

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

– Albert Camus

added by anonymous
13 years ago

He who knows the surface of the earth and the topography of a country only through the examination of maps..is like a man who learns the opera of Meyerbeer or Rossini by reading only reviews in the newspapers. The brush of landscape artists Lorrain, Ruysdael, or Calame can reproduce on canvas the sun's ray, the coolness of the heavens, the green of the fields, the majesty of the mountains...but what can never be stolen from Nature is that vivid impression that she alone can and knows how to impart--the music of the birds, the movement of the trees, the aroma peculiar to the place--the inexplicable something the traveller feels that cannot be defined and which seems to awaken in him distant memories of happy days, sorrows and joys gone by, never to return!

– Dr. Jose P. Rizal