Awakens Quotes

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.

There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.

Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.

The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.