The Best Quotes on Dreams
By Susan300, published Apr 12, 2007
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Hope is a waking dream.
--Aristotle
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
--Aeschylus
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
--Douglas Adams
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
--Anatole France
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
--Cynthia Ozick
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
--Germaine Greer
The wisest men follow their own direction.
--Euripides
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
--Friedrich von Schiller
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
--George Bernard Shaw
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
--Edgar Allan Poe
They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.
--Henry Bromel
Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.
--Homer
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
--John F. Kennedy
Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.
--Tommy Cooper
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
--John Updike
There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
--Victor Hugo
It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn't match what you dreamed it would be.
--Randy K. Milholland
One must desire something to be alive.
--Margaret Deland
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