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Dreams Quotes I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope. Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Agamemnon
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.
Brett Butler
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
Cynthia Ozick, O Magazine, September 2002
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), "Eleonora"
The wisest men follow their own direction.
Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Germaine Greer, O Magazine, September 2002
They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.
Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.
Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John Updike (1932 - )
I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
Kathe Kollwitz, O Magazine, September 2002
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them.
Man Ray, O Magazine, September 2002
One must desire something to be alive.
Margaret Deland, O Magazine, September 2002
Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Speech at Civil Rights March on Washington, August 28, 1963
I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2002
The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2002
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn't match what you dreamed it would be.
Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.
There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
William Dement, in Newsweek, 1959
There are more things in heaven and earth,
than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
Winifred Holtby, O Magazine, September 2002
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
Woody Allen (1935 - ), "Without Feathers"
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. Thomas E. Lawrence
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. William Faulkner
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. Walt Disney
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. Elias Canetti
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets. Robert Bulwer-Lytton
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you. Marsha Norman
Dreams are necessary to life. Anais Nin
Dreams are the touchstones of our character. Henry David Thoreau
Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. Edgar Cayce
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams? Alfred Lord Tennyson
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. Erma Bombeck
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. Anais Nin
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way. Baltasar Gracian
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. Rene Descartes
I don't design clothes, I design dreams. Ralph Lauren I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough. M. C. Escher
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory. Andre Breton
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. John Barrymore Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 09-07-04 George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Back to Methuselah" (1921), part 1, act 1 |
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