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You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.


Alice Hoffman

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LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Trying to sleep while dreaming.
HAIFA SANAD That we can tilt the world a little bit in favor of the poor.
BOB GELDOF The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can...
D. H. LAWRENCE Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons...
NEIL GAIMAN Your end can be greater than your beginning: butterflies are the greatest proof of this.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO You realize the limits of your body. The thing you don't want to do is freak out and swim hard. At s...
CAN OSTEN Kurtuluş Savaşı yılları... Türkiye Cumhuriyeti'nin kuruluşunda emeği geçen ama gölgede kal...
CAN DüNDAR Divers have found there is no air left in the holds of the ship. That means sea water has filled the...
CAN KARACA They must be all dead, if there is anybody else in those holds.
CAN KARACA There is little hope to find them alive.
CAN KARACA Bi sen eksiktin ayışığı
Gümüş bir tüy dikmek için manzaraya!
CAN YüCEL You can spend your whole life traveling around the world searching for the Garden of Eden, or you ca...
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN If you can win over your mind, you can win over the whole world.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That's...
PETER PAN If you have three people in your life that you can trust, you can consider yourself the luckiest per...
SELENA GOMEZ I do know it, my own. Let me tell ye in your sleep how much I love you. For there's no so much I can...
DIANA GABALDON You can be all that you want to be.
Keep dreaming and reach out to your dreams.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If you can invest all your time into giving birth to a quality product, the whole world will celebra...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I find it hard to believe how we don't sleep more often, dreaming is easily the greatest movie we ca...
STEVEN ESPINOSA If you can love all who've betrayed you... you can taste sweetness in everything.
HOLLY LYNN PAYNE Be all that you can be.
You can be great.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA When you get tired of worrying and mourning your horse and trying not to be afraid, tell me and I'll...
SHANNON HALE If you can decide to invest all your time into giving birth to a quality product, the whole world wi...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,Dreaming in the joys of night;Sleep, sleep; in thy sleepLittle sorrows s...
WILLIAM BLAKE I can be fascinated with very little things. The clouds stimulate my imagination, and sometimes I ju...
THEO JANSEN What is faithfulness, anyway? Can you be unfaithful to your own feelings and faithful to someone els...
MARY GAITSKILL It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
LEO TOLSTOY Your brain is sorting through your day while you sleep, and it's so important for your memory. You d...
ANDI BROEM Change can be beautiful; butterflies are the greatest proof of this.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to ...
NEIL GAIMAN It's always nice when you can sleep in your own bed.
JUSTIN TAYLOR Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't la...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep...
HOLLY NEAR Sleep and dreams can be an uncontrolable enemy, while insomnia has its own set of tortures
STARGAZER You can't change the world; you can't fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You ca...
PATTI SMITH Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip...
ALAN TUDYK Now she is ignoring me as first

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DEYTH BANGER Thats the thing about the Internet. You can put a lot of distance between yourself and the person yo...
ELLEN WRIGHT If you're in your 20s, hooray if you're already thinking about retirement. Your diversification can ...
CLAIRE SAUNDERS When you are awake, your mind is limited. When you are dreaming, your mind is unlimited. Creation is...
LIONEL SUGGS Only one worm to a can, but it's a really big worm.
UNREPENTANT DISILLUSIONIST You can build a whole world around the tiniest of touches.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. . . . The w...
RUDYARD KIPLING If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. . . . The ...
RUDYARD KIPLING You can have anything you want in life, you must be willing to conquer the challenge.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA You can be a drunk. You can be a survivor of abuse. You can be an ex-con. You can be a homeless pers...
LIDIA YUKNAVITCH The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Sleep like you can never be dead
Dream as if you have a soul inside your head
MUNIA KHAN The United States can't be sheriff of the whole world.
DUTCH RUPPERSBERGER While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written w...
KINGMAN BREWSTER, JR. Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new per...
DAVE KELLETT Sometimes dreaming is opening your eyes and looking at the world around you.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE If the world leaders can afford a 7 hours sleep, most of us probably can too.
PAWAN MISHRA While day dreaming you may notice errors because your brain is multi-tasking and your attention is d...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.
NELSON MANDELA During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams
TUPAC SHAKUR She brings an incredible amount of world experience. Anytime you can bring somebody in with that typ...
DEBBIE DILLMAN The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real w...
STEPHEN KING Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pa...
ANNA FRIEL They look up at me and see a rich lady in maternity clothes. They don't realize I am one of them.
JODI PICOULT You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actuall...
BARBARA SHER Learn, relearn and outlearn.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA You do that Helen", Mallory dared. "And tell him we said to f*ck off while youre at it".
CHLOE NEILL You can love anyone. Love is just caring about someone very deeply. Feeling like that
person ma...
ANNA CAREY Capture your youth, while you can.
ANTHONY LICCIONE If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world w...
RUDYARD KIPLING Dreaming with information;Dreaming without having the current information about your dreams will do ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I think if you have a good night's sleep, you can take on the world.
TAMSIN EGERTON While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word ...
KINGMAN BREWSTER Weird makes you truly sexy in a way the world can never know.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whol...
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whol...
SIVANANDA Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whol...
WILLIAM SHENSTONE You can actually recreate your world with the Word of the Creator in your mouth.
JAACHYNMA N.E. AGU Dreaming is good but dreaming without action makes you a dreamer. Stop dreaming and start acting. Th...
OSCAR BIMPONG Holy Thursday, a day to remind us that even Jesus was betrayed. People can only be betrayed by the s...
JOHN B. BEJO You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you act...
BARBARA SHER Even if your world seems to be falling apart, you can be confident in that you are in His hand of gr...
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY While sleep is clearly vital to emotional well-being, what is it, exactly, about sleep that is so ne...
ANDREW WEIL Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short....
SHANIA TWAIN People are like, 'What is your whole obsession with butterflies?' I'm like, 'I'm...
MARIAH CAREY You can look out the window and see the whole world.
ELLEN BAKER God never said that you will live an average or unfulfilled life. You and the people who programmed ...
MADDY MALHOTRA It's louder. It gives you a lot of butterflies. Because they're sitting on top of us, so you can jus...
YVENSON BERNARD You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch t...
MARK PINCUS Happiness lies even in tiny little butterflies. You just have to open up your eyes and see where bea...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Happiness lies even in ltiny ittle butterflies. You just have to open up your eyes and see where bea...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Happiness lies even in little tiny butterflies. You just have to cpen up your eyes and see where bea...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world.
DAVID CARUSO The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.
KRISTINA MCMORRIS Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open y...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Find that person who will make your whole world tremble with a few words. Apprentice yourself faithf...
CHARBEL TADROS You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy i...
EVEL KNIEVEL You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be ...
CLARENCE DARROW You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can onl...
CLARENCE DARROW Sometimes, as Eve was born from one of Adam’s ribs, a woman was born during my sleep from a crampe...
MARCEL PROUST I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.
EUGèNE IONESCO Your smile can heal thousands; but your anger can kill millions. Your "hand-shake" can encourage ten...
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ANDREW HOFFMAN (The 200 free relay) was actually the best part of my whole day, winning that relay. Because the 500...
ANDREW HOFFMAN About halfway down that second 25, I realized I was ahead of everyone else. I just put my head down ...
ANDREW HOFFMAN I think we have a good chance to win county. We have more experience and team depth this year than w...
ANDREW HOFFMAN It worked out perfect. I was so happy with how it went. I was so proud of my teammates and everyone....
ANDREW HOFFMAN As long as it was close, I was going to bring it home, and I was going to win it.
ANDREW HOFFMAN I don't need the trophy or ribbon to remind me of my accomplishments or anything.
ANDREW HOFFMAN If you contrast the productivity that comes from a networked or capitalist distribution of resources...
REID HOFFMAN The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive...
PAUL HOFFMAN That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.
BETH HOFFMAN I want to do the best I can, since I made it, and just have fun.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN I think it's like 21 hours a week (training time).
ANNELISE HOFFMAN I don't really have a favorite event, I like them all.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN We do more routines as the regional gets closer.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN Our goal is to empower consumers. We're trying to give them the most up-to-date information possible...
AMANDA HOFFMAN People are spending a long time on the site. They're looking at their own homes, their bosses' homes...
AMANDA HOFFMAN We are in beta mode. We completely expected that some of our data was not going to be accurate.
AMANDA HOFFMAN Oh, my goodness. That may be a bug.
AMANDA HOFFMAN We know it's rocky right now. But the sky's the limit.
AMANDA HOFFMAN All of this was public information; it was just really hard for the consumer to get.
AMANDA HOFFMAN It's really designed to give you a starting point. If you're not feeling well, you can enter in your...
AMANDA HOFFMAN You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimil...
ABBIE HOFFMAN Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way dow...
REID HOFFMAN The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. ...
REID HOFFMAN