I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention to keep them turning the pages to make them stay awake all night. I want to stir the pulse yes but also to stir the heart. I hope 'The Woods' does that.
As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now this is becoming more and more real.
Motherhood is a great honor and privilege yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers or preparing meals moms continuously put others before themselves.
The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant if not the most momentous event of our generation.
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
God sleeps in the minerals awakens in plants walks in animals and thinks in man.
I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.
I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
When something is new to us we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.
It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment each mental process and each breath truly is.
Each morning when I awake I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives as shown in the following stories.
Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true.
My dreams for the future are simple: work a happy healthy family a lovely long motorcycle ride and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.
Man is firmly convinced that he is awake in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself.