Sleeping

Famous quotes containing the word sleeping:

    “If the soul doth think in a sleeping man without being conscious of it, I ask, whether during such thinking it has any pleasure or pain, or be capable of happiness or misery? I am sure the man is not, no more than the bed or earth he lies on. For to be happy or miserable without being conscious of it, seems to me utterly inconsistent and impossible.
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    —John Locke (1632–1704)

    “A solitary traveller can sleep from state to state, from day to night, from day to day, in the long womb of its controlled interior. It is the cradle that never stops rocking after the lullaby is over. It is the biggest sleeping tablet in the world, and no one need ever swallow the pill, for it swallows them.”
    —Lisa St. Aubin de TerĂ¡n (b. 1953)

    “... if you’re a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you’re either sleeping with him or advising him about clothes.”
    —Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)