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Friday, 21 November 2008
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"There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American." (Twain, Mark - America)

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Browse Quotations about Dreams

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
Aim for your star, no matter how far, you must reach high above and touch your life with love, you must never look back, but charge on! Attack! See your goal your star of desire, see it red hot, feel it burning, you must be obsessed with it to make it your true yearning, be ready my friends for when you truly believe it, you will certainly achieve it and by all of God?s universal laws you will always receive it!
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men; they act out their dreams to make them reality.
All men of action are dreamers.
All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.
America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach for what once seemed unattainable. Here they have tried to make dreams come true. Yet now... we are threatened by a new and particularly American menace. It is not the menace of class war, of ideology, of poverty, of disease, of illiteracy, or demagoguery, or of tyranny, though these now plague most of the world. It is the menace of unreality.
And our dreams are who we are.
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
Are you disappointed, discouraged and discontented with your present level of success? Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present status? Do you want to become a better and more beautiful person than you are today? Would you like to be able to really learn how to be proud of yourself and still not lose genuine humility? Then start dreaming! It?s possible! You can become the person you have always wanted to be!
Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.
Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.
Big thinking precedes great achievement.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.
Castles in the air - -they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build as well.
Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
Don't ever let anyone steal your dreams.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow.
Dream big and dare to fail.
Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream --a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows --is essentially poetry.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Dream the impossible dream, Fight the unbeatable foe, Strive with your last once of courage To reach the unreachable star.
Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
Dreams are free.
Dreams are necessary to life.
Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.
Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.
Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control.
Dreams show you that you have the power...
Everything starts as somebody's day dream.
Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so.
Follow your bliss.
He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.
His life was a sort of dream, as are most lives with the mainspring left out.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.
I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.
I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on...
I dream, therefore I exist.
I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation when they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.
I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success -- the earliest spark in the dreaming youth -- if this; dream a great dream.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
I remember when I was in school, they would ask, What are you going to be when you grow up? and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride.
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu. [On the subject of her early aspirations]
I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed.
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.