#wake up

As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

#average #build #democracies #democracy #democratic

The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#bed #breakfast #dress #eat #i

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#every #get #grab #i #look

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure. ↗

— Ina Garten

#extravagance #first #first thing #garden #gives

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#between #day #disappointing #fear #feeling

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#dreaming #gone #mad #men #sleep

It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do. ↗

— Jerome Lawrence

#always #joy #such #up #wake

But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue. ↗

— James Levine

#asleep #continue #down #fall #fresh

I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#early #eat #hour #i #midday

In New York, you can just wake up and everything sorts itself out. I love that, not having a plan. ↗

— Kate Mara

#having #i #i love #itself #just