But Mr. Hale resolved that he would not be disturbed by any such nonsensical idea; so he lay awake, determining not to think about it.
– Elizabeth Gaskell
Related Quotes:
- Awake my soul.Awake my spirit.Awake my desires.Awake my light.Awake my mind.Awake my hope.Awake my faith.Awake my love. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Awake my great soul.Awake my great spirit.Awake my great strength. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- In his humble opinion, she possessed the least appealing traits a woman can put on display: undiscriminating curiosity and nonsensical verbosity. – Carol Vorvain
- …you’d be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical. – Dianna Hardy
- Honoring your feelings awakens your soul. Feelings keep you awake. And it is from that awake place, that sound, that you build your life. – Suzette R Hinton
- Before your awake, all you do is seeWhen your awake, all you do is feel. – Nikki Rowe
- If she was beautiful at rest she was doubly so awake. Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself. – Patrick Rothfuss
- I’m awake and I can’t sleep. The more I’m awake, the more I see, and the harder to sleep. – Donna Lynn Hope
- Her mouth was wide; no rosebud that could only open just enough to let out a ‘yes’ and ‘no’, and ‘an’t please you, sir’. – Elizabeth Gaskell
- The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so. – Elizabeth Gaskell
- My father was a man, and I know the sex pretty well. – Elizabeth Gaskell
- But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be. – Elizabeth Gaskell
- Her thoughts are full of other things just now; and people have such different ways of showing feeling: some by silence, some by words. – Elizabeth Gaskell
- Ask , and it shall be given until you. That is no vain or untried promise, Ruth! – Elizabeth Gaskell
- No one loves me, – no one cares for me, but you, mother. – Elizabeth Gaskell
- He swallowed down the dry choking sobs which had been heaving up from his heart hitherto … – Elizabeth Gaskell
- I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought! – Elizabeth Gaskell
- How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly. – Elizabeth Gaskell
- I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you do not understand me. – Elizabeth Gaskell
- There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger. – Elizabeth Gaskell
- Many a one has been comforted in their sorrow by seeing a good dish come upon the table. – Elizabeth Gaskell
- Love me as I am, sweet one, for I shall never be better. – Elizabeth Gaskell
- The more it rains and blows, the more certain we are to have him. – Elizabeth Gaskell
- God is just, and our lots are well portioned out by Him, although none, but He knows the bitterness of our souls. – Elizabeth Gaskell
- … that kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations … – Elizabeth Gaskell
- You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea. – Benazir Bhutto
- my dearin an idea, by an idea, living through in idea, we are our own prisoners . – litymunshi
- An idea? An idea won’t get you nothing but another idea. You need money, cash, to make anything happen in this doggone world. – Nathan McCall
- Everyone has an idea. But it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea. – Jack Dorsey
- Again, I lay awake, and I cried because of waste. – Morrissey
- Breakups have a way of shaking us awake and helping us see what we really want vs. what we are willing to settle for. – Mandy Hale
- Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- It may actually be more healthy to be disturbed, confused, or searching than confident, certain, and secure. – Mark Scandrette
- Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. – David Foster Wallace
- Life is but a sleep disturbed By dreaming – Kahlil Gibran
- Keep your heart clearAnd transparent,And you willNever be bound.A single disturbed thoughtCreates ten thousand distractions. – Rykan
- Each day was very much like any other day, because they were alone so much that nothing ever disturbed them. – Carson McCullers
- We ain’t alone in this universe.We just don’t wanna be disturbed. – Toba Beta
- God may allow a disturbance, but we don’t have to be disturbed by it. – Dillon Burroughs
- [He] had riposted with the proper metaphysical statements, yet he was disturbed. – Robert Silverberg