Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louise Erdrich

So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?

Louise Hay

Dreams and goals keep us young and interested in life.

Louise Hay

Don't ever think it's too late for you or that you're too old to dream and have goals.

James Anthony Froude

If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James Anthony Froude

A dreamer he was, and ever would be. Yet dreaming need not injure us, if it do but take its turn with waking; and even dreams themselves may be turned to beauty, by favoured men to whom nature has given the powers of casting them into form.

Jake Roberts

I went to visit my father to tell him that I was going to go to college and become an architect - that was my dream. I was like, yeah I graduated from school, but it's not like you showed up for that. But all he was worried about is whether or not I wanted money from him.

Jake Epstein

The dream is to originate a role in a show on Broadway. That's the ultimate goal.

Jacques Parizeau

Don't be afraid of your dreams.

Jacques Kallis

I realised in Sri Lanka that my dream of playing in a World Cup was a bridge too far,

Jacques Ibert

I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist.

Jacques Maritain

Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either cogent demonstration or sophistry. For it strikes him with two terrible weapons, Intuition and Beauty, and at the single root in him of all his energies... Art and Poetry awaken the dreams of man, and his longings, and reveal to him some of the abysses he has in himself.

Jacoby Shaddix

This is my dream. I ain't giving up. I see a band like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and they've had their ups and downs, but they've continued with heart. We look up to that. I see Papa Roach being around for another 15 years. We've always wanted to be a career band.

Jacob Latimore

Keep God first, chase your dreams, and everything will pay off.

Jacque Fresco

The Venus Project is neither Utopian nor Orwellian, nor does it reflect the dreams of impractical idealists. Instead, it presents attainable goals requiring only the intelligent application of what we already know. The only limitations are those which we impose upon ourselves.

Henry Rollins

I will do my best to dodge tonight's depression Hide in sleep Damage myself in dreams Wake up older, slightly more used.

Henry A. Kissinger

If Tehran insists on combining the Persian imperial tradition with contemporary Islamic fervor, then a collision with America and, indeed, with its negotiating partners of the Six is unavoidable. Iran simply cannot be permitted to fulfill a dream of imperial rule in a region of such importance to the rest of the world.

Helen Garner

I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts in neurotic self-torture. Every page of writing is the result of a thousand tiny decisions and desperate acts of will.

Henry Cejudo

If you have a dream don't let anyone talk you out of it.

Malcolm X

I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don't see any American dream--I see an American nightmare.

Mahatma Gandhi

Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares.

John C. Maxwell

Many times when people have a vision, they think in terms of a big vision - I want to take my city for Christ. But the problem with many pastors and this type of vision is this: they haven't developed the strategy to fulfill that vision. A pastor preaches a dream or vision to his/her people, they get excited for a week, a month, or a couple of months, but there is no strategy, planning, or process to fulfill that vision.

John C. Maxwell

To achieve all that is possible, we must attempt the impossible. To be all we can be, we must dream of being more.

James Russell Lowell

And what they dare to dream of, date to do.

James Purefoy

I think the James Bond thing has sailed. But of course I would want to be a Bond villain. They are great parts. I think it's highly unlikely, but one can always dream.

Jon Heder

Just tell them that their wildest dreams will come true if they vote for you.

Luigi Pirandello

Women are like dreams, they are never the way you would like to have them.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.

Lu Xun

Revolution is a bitter thing, mixed with filth and blood, not as lovely or perfect as the poets think. It is eminently down to earth, involving many humble, tiresome tasks, not so romantic as the poets think... . So it is easy for all who have romantic dreams about revolution to become disillusioned on closer acquaintance, when a revolution is actually carried out.

Lu Xun

Though science has given us many marvels, it has also spoiled many of our pleasant dreams.

Lu Xun

The most painful thing in life is to wake up from a dream and find no way out. Dreamers are fortunate people. If no way out can be seen, the important thing is not to awaken the sleepers.

Lu Xun

I have a dream that I will fulfill. And nothing else will distract me from my path.

Louis MacNeice

blind wantons like the gulls who scream And rip the edge off any ideal or dream.