Statement made after the attack on Pearl Harbor by Yamamoto as portrayed in the film Tora! Tora! Tora!, this is one of the most quoted remarks attributed to him. Though it is thought that it summarizes his sentiments well, a definite source for this quote has never been provided. William Safire wrote that there is no printed evidence to support this quote. Safire's Political Dictionary, page 666. http://books.google.com/books?id=c4UoX6-Sv1AC&pg=PA666 For more information see the Wikipedia article "Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quote".
Disputed
Quoted in "Energy Technology XI: Applications and Economics" - Page 988 - Richard F. Hill - Science - 1975
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening”
“Let no man fear to die: We love to sleep all,
And death is but the sounder sleep.”
Act III, scene 6.
The Humorous Lieutenant (c. 1619; published 1647)
“Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), X : Religion, the Mythology of the Beyond and the Apocatastasis
“Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
Variant: Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.
Source: Dune
Mobutu, asked by a German journalist to justify the expense of his Concorde while the nation's economy was in crisis. Meredith, p. 532
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Context: p>As a man and woman meet and love forthwith.
Perhaps there are moments of awakening,
Extreme, fortuitous, personal, in whichWe more than awaken, sit on the edge of sleep,
As on an elevation, and behold
The academies like structures in a mist.</p
