Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Oliver

Language is, in other words, not necessary, but voluntary. If it were necessary, it would have stayed simple; it would not agitate our hearts with ever-present loveliness and ever-cresting ambiguity; it would not dream, on its long white bones, of turning into song.

Mary Oliver

For some things there are no wrong seasons. Which is what I dream of for me.

Mary Oliver

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

I mean, every child at one stage dreams of being a prince or a princess.

Mary Doria Russell

Maybe that's the way to tell the dangerous men from the good ones. A dreamer of the day is dangerous when he believes that others are less: less than their own best selves and certainly less than he is. They exist to follow and flatter him, and to serve his purposes. A true prophet, I suppose, is like a good parent. A true prophet sees others, not himself. He helps them define their own half-formed dreams, and puts himself at their service. He is not diminished as they become more. He offers courage in one hand and generosity in the other.

Mary Doria Russell

God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners.

Martina Navratilova

Once you start believing in yourself, anything is possible. Once you start believing in yourself, your dreams take shape. The more you believe, the more you achieve.

Martin Buber

No purpose intervenes between I and You, no greed and no anticipation; and longing itself is changed as it plunges from the dream into appearance. Every means is an obstacle. Only where all means have disintegrated encounters occur.

Martin Amis

The champions of militant Islam are, of course, misogynists, woman-haters; they are also misologists -- haters of reason. Their armed doctrine is little more than a chaotic penal code underscored by impotent dreams of genocide. And, like all religions, it is a massive agglutination of stock response, of cliches, of inherited and unexamined formulations.

Martin Amis

Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that...Swing low in your weep ship, with your tear scans and sob probes, and you would mark them. Women--and they can be wives, lovers, gaunt muses, fat nurses, obsessions, devourers, exes, nemeses--will wake and turn to these men and ask, with female need-to-know, "What is it?" And the men will say, "Nothing. No it isn't anything really. Just sad dreams.

Pope Benedict XVI

The Jesus who makes everything okay for everyone is a phantom, a dream, not a real figure...

Pope John Paul II

Confidently open your most intimate aspirations to the Love of Christ who waits for you in the Eucharist. You will receive the answer to all your worries and you will see with joy that the consistency of your life which He asks of you is the door to fulfill the noblest dreams of your youth.

Pope John Paul II

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Pindar

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

Mankind is a dream of a shadow.

Pindar

We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.

Pindar

Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.

Pierre Curie

It is important to make a dream of life and a dream reality.

Pierre Curie

It would be a fine thing, in which I hardly dare believe, to pass our lives near each other, hypnotized by our dreams.

Philippe Starck

Dreaming is a form of action. Idleness is a form of action. The idle man stares at the sky and sees what constitutes our eternal ceiling. The sky is one of the things that constructs us, one of our constants. But it is not what people believe. I should like to close this circle by turning over in my bed and scrutinizing the stars.

Philippe Starck

I try to rediscover why that object exists at all, and why one should take the trouble to reconsider It. I don't consider the technical or commercial parameters so much as the desire for a dream that humans have attempted to project onto an object.

Philippe Petit

Limits exist only in the souls of those who do not dream.

Philippa Gregory

I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.

Philippa Gregory

I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire.

Philippa Gregory

There are many sorts of love. And when you love a man who is less than you dreamed, you have to make allowances for the difference between a real man and a dream. Sometimes you have to forgive him. Perhaps you even have to forgive him often. But forgiveness often comes with love.

Philip Schultz

Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.

Pope Francis

When a family loses its ability to dream, children don't grow, love doesn't grow and life loses strength, eventually it shuts off.

Pope Francis

How many solutions are found to family problems if we take time to reflect? If we think of a husband or wife and we dream about their good qualities that they have? Don’t ever lose the illusion of when you were boyfriend and girlfriend!

Pope Francis

Please do not lose the ability to dream

Pope Francis

When a child has a bad dream and wakes up crying, Dad goes and says, 'Don't be afraid, don't be scared. I'm here.' The Lord speaks this way, too... Usually, Christmas seems like a very noisy feast, but we can use a bit of silence to hear these words of love, closeness and tenderness.

Pope Francis

Missionaries never give up on their dream of peace, even when they experience difficulties and persecution, which makes their presence strongly felt today.

Pope Francis

When you lose the capacity to dream, you lose the capacity to love, and the energy to love is lost.

Pope Francis

Dear young people, do not bury your talents, the gifts that god has given you! Do not be afraid to dream of great things!