Sleep Quotes (1058 Quotes)

A six-week regime of sleep deprivation, forced exercises, stress positions, white noise, and sexual humiliation amounts to acts that were specifically intended to cause severe physical pain and suffering and severe mental pain and suffering. That's the legal definition of torture.

A baby sitter is someone who watches your TV set While your kids cry themselves to sleep.

With every rising of the sun, Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays there let them sleep. Concern yourself with but today, Woo it, and teach it to obey Your will and wish. Since time began Today has been the friend of man But in his blindness and his sorrow, He looks to yesterday and tomorrow. You, and today a soul sublime, And the great pregnant hour of time, With God himself to bind the twain Go forth, I sayattain, attain With God himself to bind the twain.

Fatigue is dangerous when working with electricity we need our crews to be sharp. We sent most of our people home early to get a good night's sleep. The hard work starts bright and early.

It was nice to roll that one in. Tonight, I'll catch up on some sleep and get ready for tomorrow.

Here lurks no treason, here no envy swells,
Here grow no damned drugs, here are no storms,
No noise, but silence and eternal sleep.

There are a lot of things that have to get done in a short amount of time so the sleep gets cut down first. At their age, their sleep cycle tends to shift to later wake-up times but school times don't allow for it.

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

I'm still worried they're going to be back any day. So, it's real hard to get some sleep. We're watching the surveillance cameras all the time. We've got some outdoors now, too.

If I could bleed, or sleep!

Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kingsSole comforter to minds with grief opprest

I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD...I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once I don't want to miss it.

The serpent heard it flicker
In sleep, and, dreaming still, he crept afar.

At night, when you retire to sleep, feel that you are entering the green-room after the scene, but with the dress of your role on for perhaps the role is not yet over and you have not yet been permitted to take the dress off. Perhaps, you have to make another entrance the next morning. Do not worry about that. Place yourself fully at His Disposal He knows He has written the play and He knows how it will end and how it will go on Yours is but to act and retire.

If I hadn't experienced that first-hand and known what it takes to turn a team around, I maybe wouldn't feel as positive about what I'm getting into, ... But I really feel the Orioles' organization has tremendous upside. One G.M. called it a sleeping giant, and I really believe that. They had 88 losses and problems and issues. A lot of those issues have gone away, with free agency.

I feel horrible. I couldn't sleep. My neck was swollen. My body was killing me. It was 1130 (Sunday) night and I didn't want to tell anybody. I tried to sleep and woke up in a pool of sweat.

I won't get any sleep tonight. I'm sure I'll think about one possession, one miscue that could've changed the game. This is two years in a row we've made it to the semifinals we just can't get over the hump.

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep.

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong What if you're making a mistake you can't undo The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we hadn't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying.

On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.

We shall construct a big gym and hostel, where displaced children will after training be sleeping.

Not getting enough sleep impairs our work performance, increases the risk for injuries and makes it more difficult to get along with others. Without sufficient sleep it is more difficult to concentrate, make careful decisions and follow instructions, we are more likely to make mistakes or errors, and are more prone to being impatient and lethargic. Our attention, memory and reaction time are all affected. But while we may recognize these symptoms, we do not always associate them as being symptoms of sleep loss.

Sleep my friend, and you will see that dream is my reality.

Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.

Every time I'd get close to sleeping, I'd start coughing.

That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again and then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me that, when I waked I cried to dream again.

I was eighteen or nineteen years old, and I'd get these genius ideas for novels and try to finish then in three or four days without going to sleep.

Money talks, but sometimes I just want to get some sleep

I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.

Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later.

When you win you eat better, sleep better and your beer tastes better. And your wife looks like Gina Lollobrigida.

A canopy over the entrance of the Biloxi Regional Medical Center was torn off by the wind. We just laid down to try to get some sleep when the storm forces came through and it really ripped that canopy, ... You wouldn't believe the wind that came through here.

My four basics are eating, sleeping, raising children and making money,

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.

I have three kids and a wife, and any moments that aren't dedicated to working on this film in some way, or family, are immediately reserved for sleep.

To get a good night's sleep, you have to understand there's a mind and body connection. Both the mind, as well as the body, need to relax.

The Big Sleep.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover Breath's a ware that will not keep. Up, lad when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... ''curse that stool'' Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.

Being around my friends and having breakfast with them after sleeping in my own bed is nice. To play tennis in an atmosphere like this. Doing a job that I love. I can't complain a bit about any of this.

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.

Around his tomb let Art and Genius weep But hear his death, ye blockheads hear and sleep.

Her drive is what grabbed me. She's more than ambitious. She's relentless. She doesn't eat much. She doesn't sleep. You almost have to force her to stop working ... on a routine, or she's rehearsing songs, or just studying music.

When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning -- how much remains of downright existence The summer of a dormouse.

The importance of sleep to healthy aging is often overlooked in the medical community, but it's becoming increasingly apparent that good sleep could be a new vital sign.