The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto EcoI'm just so proud of myself. You always have these dreams about winning, but you never think your dreams will be reality.
Christine OhuruoguIf some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.
Herman MelvilleI come from a generation where the dreams and aspirations of a whole lot of young men were sacrificed at the altar of getting some kind of menial job.
Bill DixonA thousand creeds and battle cries,
A thousand warring social schemes,
A thousand new moralities
And twenty thousand, thousand dreams.
Alfred NoyesFollow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up, and you will achieve success in what you set out to do.
Rachel CorrieDreams can come true.
GabrielleDreams are the touchstones of our character.
Henry David ThoreauTake, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
W B YeatsDreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
Baltasar GracianWe are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald DahlGenius is an African who dreams up snow.
Vladimir NabokovWhen Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
Franz Kafka'You can always dream, and your dreams will come true, but you have to make them come true.'
Michael JacksonWinning a medal is what every athlete dreams of, and if it is the Olympic gold then that is the icing on the cake
Jeff FenechEveryday was an adventure on the set of California Dreams. You never know what the guys will be up to next. Usually it's something stupid!
Kelly PackardA man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Zadok RabinwitzHow blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads. To whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams [erm quite indeed]
Bram StokerA mother should have some fantasy about her child's future. It will increase her interest in the child. [Hmm isn't any mother actually interested in the child irrespective of dreams and ambitions!]
James HillmanThe world lies in the hands of those who have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams - each according to his or her own talent.
Paulo CoelhoI was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
Susan SontagOur dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
Amos Bronson AlcottThe world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
Samuel JohnsonThe chambers in the house of dreams
Are fed with so divine an air, That
Time's hoary wings grow young therein,
And they who walk there are most fair.
Francis ThompsonDreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
Havelock EllisThis country has helped define me and make my dreams come true [on the US]
Jim CarreyHold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston HughesAll the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams
Elias CanettiThe future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
Eleanor RooseveltA man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John BarrymoreHad I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W B YeatsDreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
Benjamin RushNo one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams
Jesse JacksonIdeologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together
Eugene IonescoWe didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.
Ruth HandlerBut I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W B YeatsIf dreams can be portents of what is to come, then I had my fair share if forewarning before my life was stolen away.
Charles De LintWho so regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind. [Ecclesiasticus 34:2]
BibleEager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream
Nathaniel HawthorneWe need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, but live our strongest dreams - even if it takes a lifetime.
Vijali HamiltonAnything is possible in a world of dreams.
Mike CunninghamDreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.
Robert ConklinGod's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningDreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
Candice BergenOld age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
Soren KierkegaardConsult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Pope John XXIIIDreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, thereare still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waitingto be born.
Dale TurnerWe all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
Erich FrommHow many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true! - Life and Human Nature
Logan Pearsall SmithAn athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
Emil Zatopek
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