#awake

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#clearly #does #dreams #eye #imagination

If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#army #awaken #commerce #delusion #destruction

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#awaken #him #man #perhaps #science

My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results. ↗

— Frank R. Wolf

#america #awake #backs #body #boldness

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

— Isoroku Yamamoto

#done #fear #fill #giant #him

I am awake a lot of nights. ↗

— Roger Goodell

#awake #i #i am #lot #nights

I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed? ↗

— Victoria Gotti

#awake #come #cry #dad #get

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#afterwards #awake #beforehand #better #lie

To be awake is everything. ↗

— Gustave Meyrink

#everything

Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#aids #attention #awaken #being #belief