“A wise man will keep his Suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695) English politician
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
“A man feels impelled to do something to keep awake.”
Toronto Star, 30 November 1928, reported in [Famous Lasting Words: Great Canadian Quotations, Douglas & McIntyre, 2000, Vancouver, Columbo, John Robert, 571]
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Marilyn vos Savant (1946) US American magazine columnist, author and lecturer
As quoted in What Type Am I? : Discover Who You Really Are (1998) by Renee Baron, p. 110
James Mattis (1950) 26th and current United States Secretary of Defense; United States Marine Corps general
Exchange in an interview between John Dickerson and James Mattis on CBS' "Face the Nation" on May 28, 2017.
“I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new”
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
1950s, Atoms for Peace (1953)
Context: I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new--one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare. The atomic age has moved forward at such a pace that every citizen of the world should have some comprehension, at least in comparative terms, of the extent of this development of the utmost significance to every one of us. Clearly, if the people of the world are to conduct an intelligent search for peace, they must be armed with the significant facts of today's existence.
“Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.”
Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian
Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC (1973)
Context: If you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
“What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.”
Claude Monet (1840–1926) French impressionist painter
“The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) Catholic bishop
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 113
Jonas Salk (1914–1995) Inventor of polio vaccine
Academy of Achievement interview (1991)
Context: My life is pretty well at peace, and the profession is more of an avocation. It's a calling, if you like, rather than a job. I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would. Scientists function in the same way. I see all these as creative activities, as all part of the process of discovery. Perhaps that's one of the characteristics of what I call the evolvers, any subset of the population who keep things moving in a positive, creative, constructive way, revealing the truth and beauty that exists in life and in nature.
“I look to the time with you to keep me awake and alive.”
Peter Gabriel (1950) English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian
In Your Eyes
Song lyrics, So (1986)
Context: I get so tired of working so hard for our survival
I look to the time with you to keep me awake and alive.