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• “Regarding the dreams of reaching military superiority over the U.S.S.R., one would do better to drop them. If it has to be, the Soviet people would find the possibility to undertake any additional efforts and to do everything that is necessary to guarantee a reliable defense of their country.”

  Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted in "Excerpts from Brezhnev's Replies to Questions on East-West Arms Issues", The New York Times (November 4, 1981)

• “I wait, but do not know for what or why Or perhaps you are uttering the last bruised sighs, Ignorant of the mystery and of your cries, Of a childhood feeling its frozen gems Being broken off at last amidst its dreams.”

  Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898) said by 1898 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Though like the wanderer, The sun gone down, Darkness be over me, My rest a stone; Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer, my God, to Thee.”

  Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (1805–1848) said by 1848 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “All your thoughts are in another head. Your dreams are sleepin' in a different bed. The force that moves you is a circular breath of life and death going round and round and round.”

  Edie Brickell (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “She had a need to feel the thunder, To chase the lightning from the sky, To watch a storm with all its wonder Written in her lover's eyes. She had to ride the heat of passion Like a comet burning bright, Rushing headlong in the wind Now where only dreams have been, Burning both ends of the night.”

  Garth Brooks (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “He was up in Wyoming, And drew a bull no man could ride. He promised her he'd turn out, Well it turned out that he lied. And their dreams that they'd been livin', In the California sand, Died right there beside him in Cheyenne.”

  Garth Brooks (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “What sweet, what happy days had I, When dreams made Time Eternity!”

  William Henry Davies (1871–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If you’ve not dreamed, you’ve never truly slept. Dreams are the place where you can be yourself; do anything, be anything. The mind set free.”

  Jasper Fforde (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If you'd listen, even for a little while I'd be pleased Remember, once more we were born into this world crying. Your dreams and hopes for tomorrow are all in this world.”

  Ayumi Hamasaki (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “This summer, our new journey begins I sense a slight discomfort in the distance We saw that place in our dreams Today, let's find the road there again.”

  Ayumi Hamasaki (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “How the girls could turn to ghosts before your eyes And the very dreams that led to them are keeping them from dying And how the grace with which she walked into your life Will stay with you in your steps, And pace with you a while So long, so long.”

  Chris Carrabba (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.”

  Hugh Kingsmill (1889–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “What's this Chungian analyst?" he asked. "Five years' training in Zurich at the C. G. Jung Institute," I said. "Jung was a student of Freud until they quarreled." "Oh, yes," he said. "Dreams and all that kind of thing." I felt his dismissal; I made no response.”

  Marion Woodman (1928–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Showed me pictures in the gallery Showed me novels on the shelf Put my hands across the table Gave me knowledge of myself. Showed me visions, showed me nightmares Gave me dreams that never end Showed me light out of the tunnel When there was darkness all around instead.”

  Van Morrison (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Ambition will take you And ride you too far and Conservatism bring you to boredom once more Sit down by the river And watch the stream flow Recall all the dreams That you once used to know The things you've forgotten That took you away To pastures not greener but meaner.”

  Van Morrison (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “When I started writing I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It's richer, in a way.”

  John Banville (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “A fountain brings us peace, joy and restful sensuality and reaches the epitome of its very essence when by its power to bewitch it will stir dreams of distant worlds.”

  Luis Barragán (1902–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams. His pow'rs the most voluptuously dissolve In soft repose; on him the balmy dews Of Sleep with double nutriment descend.”

  John Armstrong (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: John Armstrong (poet) (attributed)

• “It was January and snowing like crazy. It was tough; the food was terrible. Eighteen months of my life for nothing? I thought my own dreams were more important.”

  Tarkan (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in the concrete form of a man. In something that gives a focus to all the other things he knows to be real. Something that makes unseen things manifest and allows him to come to his hopes and dreams through his outer eye and through the touch and feel of his natural hand.”

  Ralph Ellison (1914–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.”

  Émile Durkheim (1858–1917) said by 1917 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: p. 129 (in 1933 edition, lushqoutes)

• “Can we then hold the poverty-in-wealth of the money-grubbing usurers to be of any account? They may seem to be kings with purses full of gold, but they never even in their dreams have had a glimpse of the wealth that has eyes to see.”

  Philo (15 BC–50) said by 50 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Others may doubt us. They may criticize us. They may try to deny us what is rightfully ours. But they will fail. And I promise you, as long as I am mayor, I will never back away from fighting any opponent -- or confronting any obstacle -- that would prevent our people from achieving all of their dreams in Our New York.”

  Michael Bloomberg (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!”

  Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) first seen 1816 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter to John Adams (1 August 1816)

• “They might need a preparatory discourse on the text of 'prove all things, hold fast that which is good,' in order to unlearn the lesson that reason is an unlawful guide in religion. They might startle on being first awaked from the dreams of the night, but they would rub their eyes at once, and look the spectres boldly in the face.”

  Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) first seen 1822 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter to Benjamin Waterhouse (19 July 1822), published in The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes, Federal Edition, Paul Leicester Ford, ed., New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904, Vol. 12, p. 244

• “It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it, and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly dreams. ... what has no meaning admits no explanation.”

  Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) first seen 1825 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter to General Alexander Smyth, on the book of Revelation (or The Apocalypse of St. John the Divine) (17 January 1825)

• “Life's visions are vanished, it's dreams are no more. Dear friends of my bosom, why bathed in tears? I go to my fathers; I welcome the shore, which crowns all my hopes, or which buries my cares. Then farewell my dear, my lov'd daughter, Adieu! The last pang in life is in parting from you. Two Seraphs await me, long shrouded in death; I will bear them your love on my last parting breath.”

  Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) first seen 1782 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: A death-bed Adieu from Th. J. to M. R." Jefferson's poem to his eldest child, Martha "Patsy" Randolph, written during his last illness in 1826. Two days before his death, Jefferson told Martha that in a certain drawer i…

• “Geater love hath no man than to snuff another’s life. What more intimate act, what grander display of passion is there than murder? What bigger influence can you have on someone’s life than to end it, to erase them from the ontological chalkboard? Can you imagine a higher moral calling than to destroy someone’s dreams with one bullet, a blade’s swipe, or a pair of thumbs to the throat?”

  Jim Goad (1961–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “A spaceship rhymes with all the dreams, nascent wonder, and hope of a humanity looking up in awe at an excruciatingly beautiful Cosmos, with”

  Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Dreams are the food of human progress. Poetry, like all physics, ultimately quantifies the unquantifiable that is beyond all form.”

  Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “My dreams — even they're not as populous as they should be. They hold more solitude than noisy crowds.”

  Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “To the greatest fans and the greatest sport in the world, thank you! Thank you for all the wonderful memories. This is the hardest decision I’ve ever made, but I’m at peace with it. Chase your dreams, work hard, and watch what happens. Good bye boxing.”

  Manny Pacquiao (born 1978) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Manny Pacquiao announcing his retirement from boxing, September 29, 2021. https://twitter.com/MannyPacquiao/status/1443063035627651078

• “Oh well dreams can come true if you know inside you really want them to or you can sit you can wait you can leave your fate in someone elses hands.”

  James Morrison (singer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Back o'er the deep I turn my longing eyes, And chide the wayward passions that rebel: Yet boots it not to think, or to complain, Musing sad ditties to the reckless main. To dreams like these, adieu! the pealing bell Speaks of the hour that stays not—and the day To life's sad turmoil calls my heart away.”

  William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850) said by 1850 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: On Landing at Ostend", in Poetical Works, vol. 1 (1855)

• “Through thee, the gracious Muses turn, To Furies, O mine Enemy! And all the things of beauty burn With flames of evil ecstasy.Because of thee, the land of dreams Becomes a gathering place of fears: Until tormented slumber seems One vehemence of useless tears.”

  Lionel Johnson (1867–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Through honeycombs of stone would now be wandering the passions in their clay. There would be tears and there would be strange laughter. Fierce births and deaths beneath umbrageous ceilings. And dreams, and violence, and disenchantment.”

  Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Five years ago, even the most audacious visionary would not have dared predict the slashing do-or-die desperation and the sizzling up-tempo beat which has exploded into our politics, into our daily conversation, and into our nightmares and dreams.”

  Eldridge Cleaver (1935–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams. (beginning of "The Miracle")”

  Anzia Yezierska (1880–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know. ("When We Dead Awaken: Writing As Re-Vision")”

  Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “O singers, resinous and soft your songs Above the sacred whisper of the pines, Give virgin lips to cornfield concubines, Bring dreams of Christ to dusky cane-lipped throngs.”

  Jean Toomer (1894–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “For tho' I know he loves me, To-night my heart is sad; His kiss was not so wonderful As all the dreams I had.”

  Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The greenish sky glows up in misty reds, The purple shadows turn to brick and stone, The dreams wear thin, men turn upon their beds, And hear the milk-cart jangle by alone.”

  Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed.”

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I captain an army Of shining and generous dreams.”

  William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Think on the shame of dreams for deeds, The scandal of unnatural strife, The slur upon immortal needs, The treason done to life:Arise! no more a living lie, And with me quicken and control Some memory that shall magnify The universal Soul.”

  William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.”

  Man Ray (1890–1976) first seen 1945 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Julien Levy exhibition catalog (April 1945)

• “Thank you for your loyalty, and many kindnesses through the years...You have one by one validated my modest life as an actress, far beyond my personal fulfillment. Dare to pursue your own positive dreams. I value each of you.”

  Dyanne Thorne (1936–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It may be years until the day My dreams will match up with my pay.”

  Leslie Feist (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “A thousand creeds and battle-cries, A thousand warring social schemes, A thousand new moralities, And twenty thousand thousand dreams! Each on his own anarchic way, From the old order breaking free, — Our ruined world desires, you say, License, once more, not Liberty.”

  Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The dreams are the skeleton of all reality.”

  James Salter (1925–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

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