Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lukas Krajicek

Just to get to play the first game of the season is what I've dreamed of, and it happened.

Friedrich Schiller

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Ray Young

Just thinking about it gives me the chills, ... It's one of the things I dream about at night.

Lucy Jones

Hector Mine was a dream earthquake. All the fun of a magnitude 7 without any of the guilt.

Michael Ende

Guido clung to this thought like a drowning man clutching at a straw. He was rich and famous now, he told himself, and wasn't that what he'd always dreamed of?

Lauren Bacall

I loved reading Grimm's fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen, and I loved to dream about other worlds and other lives. Maybe that has something to do with having an incomplete family, being an only child. All I know is I loved to pretend, and all that was in tandem with my wanting to be an actress.

Rob McClure

I was a huge fan of 'Avenue Q' long before I ever dreamed of being a part of it. I saw it off-Broadway at the Vineyard and waited at the stage door for autographs!

Scott Verplank

It gives them their escape. They can dream about other things.

Robert Collier

Think of things not as they are, but as they might be. Don't merely dream- but create.

Virgil

We can't all do everything.

Virgil

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

Virgil

Time passes irrevocably.

Virgil

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.

Vladimir Lenin

The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind.

Willard Van Orman Quine

We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We can change it, bit by bit, plank by plank, though meanwhile there is nothing to carry us along but the evolving conceptual scheme itself. The philosopher's task was well compared by Neurath to that of a mariner who must rebuild his ship on the open sea.

Saint Augustine

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Saint Augustine

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Saint Augustine

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

William Whewell

We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.

William Shatner

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

William James

The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.

Tracy Kidder

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives

Whittaker Chambers

Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.

William Banting

At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction.

Walter Kirn

Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements.

William Ralph Inge

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

Winston Churchill

We used to be a source of fuel; we are increasingly becoming a sink. These supplies of foreign liquid fuel are no doubt vital to our industry, but our ever-increasing dependence upon them ought to arouse serious and timely reflection. The scientific utilisation, by liquefaction, pulverisation and other processes, or our vast and magnificent deposits of coal, constitutes a national object of prime importance.