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“Know, my son, that the enemy will always be with you. He will be in the shadow of your dreams and in your living flesh, for he is the other part of yourself.”
Jane Yolen (1939–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The glow has gone forever And our dreams have turned to dust; I don't know how I can go on, And yet I know I must.”
Tom Springfield (1934–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If Hollywood were to make a trailer for this car, I know how it'd go. [In an American 'announcer voice'] "Bentley. Fear beyond your wildest dreams. In a Bentley, no one can hear you scream.”
Jeremy Clarkson (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thank you very much. This is Lisa and this is Wendy. Want to hold it? [Gives the Oscar to Wendy] This is very unbelievable. I could've never imagined this in my wildest dreams. And I would like to thank the Academy, Mr. Albert Magnoli, my manager Steven. Bob, Joe, Bobby, Mark and Matt, who couldn't be with us today. And most of all, God. Thank you very much.”
Prince (musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People call me stupid for treating you like a queen, but I dont even worry `cause you`re my unforeseen. And I hope that you`ll be with me, if only in my dreams. But here you are next to me and you`re glad, or so it seems.”
Alexander Rybak (born 1986) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Funny Little World" (2009).
“one's twentieth birthday. That day opened the door to a wider life: I reached out to grasp reality. But in fact it was reality which gripped me with its restrictions and constraints and rules which arrogantly claim to be the laws of life, of the universe. To be grown-up really meant resignation; one gave in (if ruefully), laughing a little at one's young dreams.”
Ida Friederike Görres (1901–1971) first seen 1951 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Broken Lights p. 63 Diaries 1951-1952.
“Some dreams take a long time in dying. Some get a last minute reprieve…and that can be even worse.”
Vernor Vinge (1944–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The man who has stolen in order never to thieve again remains a thief. Nobody who has ever betrayed his principles can have a pure relationship with life. Therefore when a film-maker says he will produce a pot-boiler in order to give himself the strength and the means to make the film of his dreams — that is so much deception, or worse, self-deception. He will never now make his film.”
Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have to provide the roads on which our dreams are paved. And these roads can’t have potholes, they can’t break down in six months. They have to be big roads because they are going to carry strong people, they are going to carry strong forces.”
Rahul Gandhi (born 1970) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2013. Wall Street Journal, WSJ
“Unlike modern man, who dreams of the world he will make, pre-modern man dreamed of the world he left.”
Robert Heilbroner (1919–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dreams are reality waiting to happen.”
Nick Jonas (born 1992) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And as the moon rises he sits by his fire Thinking about women and glasses of beer. And closing his eyes as the dogies retire, He sings out a song which is soft but it's clear, As if maybe someone could hear.Goodnight you moonlight ladies. Rockabye sweet baby James. Deep greens and blues are the colors I choose. Won't you let me go down in my dreams? And rockabye sweet baby James.”
James Taylor (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’ve been walking my mind to an easy time, My back turned towards the sun. Lord knows the cold wind blows it’ll turn your head around. Well, there’s hours of time on the telephone line, To talk about things to come. Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.”
James Taylor (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some dreams are best not to wake up from.”
Hiroo Onoda (1922–2014) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed by Judit Kawaguchi, "Words to Live By: Hiroo Onoda", The Japan Times, 16 January 2007
“In some far off place Many light years in space I’ll wait for you. Where human feet have never trod, Where human eyes have never seen. I'll build a world of abstract dreams And wait for you.”
Sun Ra (1914–1993) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Liner notes to Monorails and Satellites (1968)
“And I stood arrow straight Unencumbered by the weight Of all these hustlers and their schemes. I stood proud, I stood tall High above it all. I still believed in my dreams.”
“The world is not ruled by those who have money, but those who have dreams”
Janusz Korwin-Mikke (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You are more than now; You are for always. I can see in you My dreams come true. Don't you ever go away.You make me feel like There's nothing I can't do. And when I hold you, I only want to say I love you.”
Lionel Richie (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I see a picture by the lamp's flicker... Isn't it strange how dreams fade and shimmer?”
Mike Oldfield (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And now the story's just begun A thousand years to stay We wake each morning with the sun To live our dreams away”
Mike Oldfield (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I could not find my way back in dreams, I knew then. They were memory and desire, terror and hope; they told me only what I already knew.”
Patricia A. McKillip (1948–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.”
Alfred Bester (1913–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The world is full of kings and queens Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams, It's heaven and hell, oh well.”
Ronnie James Dio (1942–2010) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Heaven and Hell" on Heaven and Hell (1980)
“Most dreams are made of glass, You throw just one stone, And then there goes your last window.”
Ronnie James Dio (1942–2010) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hollywood Black" on Strange Highways (1993)
“Paula, your retirement is the one that every athlete dreams.”
Milagros Cabral (born 1978) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About the retirement of teammate at volleyball club Icaro Alaro, Paula Parisi in 2007 as a champion. (23 May 2007)
“She must have had bad dreams and climbed in with our mother. Of course, she did. This is the day of the reaping.”
Suzanne Collins (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Deep in the meadow, hidden far away A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray Forget your woes and let your troubles lay And when again it's morning, they'll wash away. Here it's safe, here it's warm Here the daisies guard you from every harm The final lines are barely audible. Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true Here is the place where I love you.”
Suzanne Collins (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The dealer for a nickel Lord, will sell you lots of sweet dreams Ah, but the pusher ruin your body Lord, he'll leave your, he'll leave your mind to scream.”
Hoyt Axton (1938–1999) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Pusher (1968)
“Pretty little darling. I'm in great shape, I slept a lot. If you only knew the dreams I've had, I know you like the back of my hand [...] You’re going to take a nice shower and think of me.”
Gérard Depardieu (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In paying homage to the martyrs of Metz Yeghern, we understand that we must take steps forward, come together for the sake of our national dreams and goals. We must build a powerful and democratic State by doing everything possible for the future day of our country and people.”
Tigran Sargsyan (born 1960) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Message on Armenian Genocide Victims Remembrance Day (24 April 2010).
“Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.”
Xi Jinping (born 1953) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Xi Jinping meets model workers" in cctv.com English (1 May 2013).
“The innate power you possess to achieve your dreams is immeasurable.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. Live your truth and don't EVER stop!”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Participate in your own dreams, don't just say what you want or complain about what you don't have.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand.”
Mark Kingwell (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you are eating well and your condition is pure and clean, life itself becomes like the dreams or visions that you have when sleeping.”
Michio Kushi (1926–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was a student at Berkeley in the late Reagan years. We had a lot of ideas back then, big dreams about getting famous and destroying the "Beigeocracy" that we thought stifled and controlled American Letters. Everything seemed possible then: world war, literary fame ... Anyway, something Really Big, with us at the center of it all.”
“It is to do nothing that the elect exist. Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...the prisoner's dreams is the guard's spirituality”
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.”
Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Farewell speech to the Liberal Party (14 June 1984)
“Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams — Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, they infect the routine futility of our days with purposeful adventure. Their weapons are our weaknesses: fear, ambition, illness, pride, selfishness, desire, ignorance. And these weapons must be kept as bright as a sword.”
E. B. White (1899–1985) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Truth in Advertising," The New Yorker (11 July 1936)
“Gradually the village murmur subsided, and we seemed to be embarked on the placid current of our dreams, floating from past to future as silently as one awakes to fresh morning or evening thoughts.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) said by 1862 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) said by 1862 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours ... In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) said by 1862 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We may well be ashamed to tell what things we have read or heard in our day. I do not know why my news should be so trivial, — considering what one's dreams and expectations are, why the developments should be so paltry. The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) said by 1862 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.”
Adlai Stevenson II (1900–1965) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Putting First Things First", Foreign Affairs (January 1960)
“The number of one's possible fantasies is inversely proportional to the amount of one's liquid assets. For him who has everything dreams are no longer possible.”
Stanisław Lem (1921–2006) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Peace on Earth (1987), tr. Elinor Ford (1994) from Pokój na Ziemi, Ch. 4
“No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child is tortured by the thought of a state of existence in which it would live in a candy store and have two stomachs.”
H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Art Eternal, New York Evening Mail (1918)
“The potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) first seen 1780 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (1780?)
“Did not one spend the first half of one’s days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?”
Émile Zola (1840–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ch. 9 (tr. Jean Stewart, 1955)