#woke

Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together. ↗

— David Guterson

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I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

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No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning. ↗

— D. L. Hughley

#be happy #happy #how #least #matter

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#axis #morning #one morning #september #world

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty. ↗

— George Byron

#dreamt #duty #found #i #life

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#bits #children #discovered #forgot #i

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

I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep. ↗

— Stan Laurel

#awake #dream #find #had #i

I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I rebelled against it in the '90s. I thought it was a backlasher, some sort of faulty data. But it's real. I'm glad I woke up before my body was just like 'uh-uh.' ↗

— Lili Taylor

#before #biological #body #clock #data

A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this! ↗

— Theresa May

#issue #lot #men #politics #realised