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“We hunger for a wholeness and express it on every hand. The scientist longs for a "field theory" to unify the fragments of his thought. Ultimate prediction and control are his dream. The theological equivalent expressed long ago as monotheism. The scientific form expresses as an insatiable appetite, an intellectual concupiscence desiring more than the very stars could ever assuage.”
Joseph Chilton Pearce (1926–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A dream with a deadline is a goal.”
“This feeling of not belonging to the same sensation which grips you in a dream, you find yourself walking through an unfamiliar district. On waking you realize, little by little, that the pattern of its streets had overlaid with the one with which, in day time, you are familiar.”
Patrick Modiano (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have a dream where society will replace guns with dictionaries.”
“I am waking from a dream, I am choking on a scream, You were trying to show me something. But the dark is wide and long, The gates are closed, the crowd's all gone, You're still shimmering and leading me on…Firefly that's what you are Burning for me in my darkest hour "Light breaks where no sun shines" So shine for me tonight — firefly.”
Greta Gaines first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Firefly" on Greta Gaines (1999); the phrase in quotes is a line from a poem of Dylan Thomas. · Full song at YouTube · Live Performance
“The Introductory chords dissolve the dream which the music has evoked, and we are back once more in the world of reality.”
Walter Raymond Spalding (1865–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The greatest poverty is the inability to dream.”
“It is dark in my favorite dream. Someone is following me. I don't know why. I'm scared. Then suddenly I lift off. Far away. How do I feel? As if I am swimming in the air. Free. Weightless. Nobody can reach me. Nobody can touch me. It's a wonderful feeling.”
Aaliyah (1979–2001) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview in Die Zeit newspaper (2001)
“When we started, there were KRAFTWERK and TANGERINE DREAM, and both bands also became very very strong internationally but in a different area, in a different field. They were doing, like, experimental kind of music, and KRAFTWERK were amazing, while we played just traditional rock.”
Klaus Meine (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is the only challenge in the world to be greed and viciousness? Is the only satisfying power the power of the ascent over men, the only dream, ambition? And must the alternative to greed, evil, ambition—be only sluggishness?”
Tanith Lee (1947–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“New York is like my dream city. That's where I'm going to live, I'm convinced of it.”
Frances Bean Cobain (born 1992) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer.”
Maggie Stiefvater (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream”
Lionel Messi (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it”
Lionel Messi (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Italians dream that the ECB (European Central Bank) will make their life easier than the Bundesbank does now... The new central bank is certain to establish itself at the outset as a direct continuation of the German central bank.”
Rudiger Dornbusch (1942–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My wife says that I should be working for retirement instead of pursuing my sizzled dream of writing. I told her she was right. I should be working instead of goofing off. But, I’m a man. What does she expect?”
Michael Scott Gallegos first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Paper Cut Reflections" (Sep, 2014)
“The older I grow, the more Gnosis speaks to my reason: the world is not ruled by a Providence, it's intrinsically evil and deeply absurd, and Creation is either the dream of blind intelligence or the game of a principle without a moral.”
Albert Caraco (1919–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: L’Âge d’Homme, Lausanne (1975), p. 77
“If humankind is open to another dimension of reality, then the dream may be one of the most common avenues through which God reaches out to us.”
Morton Kelsey (1917–2001) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dreams: A Way to Listen to God (1971)
“The Eastern or Greek Orthodox tradition has never turned its back upon the dream or the myth. ...it has continued to believe that spiritual reality is mediated to men through mythological images in story and actions, and in the pictorial representation of the icon.”
Morton Kelsey (1917–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Myth and ritual act as transformers in bringing people the value of spiritual reality, just as an electrical transformer... The dream also provides the same kind of stepped-down encounter.”
Morton Kelsey (1917–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The true herdist [...] is nothing but an egoist who cannot tolerate anybody differing from himself. John Doe, the identitarian, wants a nation, a world, a universe peopled by millions of John Does. He cannot sympathize nor like anybody at variance with John Doe. No wonder that his wishful dream is a humanity of John Does without God or Devil. The herdist is by necessity a humanitarian.”
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1909–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are those of you who may choose to live in a dream world where the glass is half full, but if you do, you're an imbecile. The glass will never be half full. Nor full ever again. It's simply on its way to empty. It's half empty, three-quarters empty, then totally fucking empty.”
Brad Garrett (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Have you ever had a dream so real That you felt the life you live was fake”
“Are we in a dream?” Lebret asked. “Might we actually be dead and in some afterlife?” “How could we test either supposition?” the scientist asked, with characteristic practical-mindedness. “What conceivable experiment could we design to falsify such a claim?”
Adam Roberts (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Protected areas provide hope that the creatures of Ed Wilson's dream of an encyclopedia of life, or the census of marine life, will live not just as a list, a photograph, or a paragraph.”
Sylvia Earle (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You for whom I have looked so hard without ever finding. You whom I have longed for, called after, without ever seeing you come, you who are always present without ever existing – I am writing to you now. You who are basically only myself, but a much bigger and more noble self, an ingenious self, a self far from me, as real as the whole distance between the dream and the reality.”
Marianne von Werefkin (1860–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I dream of a sculpture in which landscape, architecture and city are one. It might be a city like Marseille, a city steaming with heat which suddenly transmogrifies. I becomes an immense piece of sculpture, a gigantic figure, made up of white blocks and segmented by flat, horizontal terraces, arranged in a bare and motionless landscape. (circa 1969)”
Fritz Wotruba (1907–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sculpture of Rotterdam, ed. Jan van Adrichem / Jelle Bouwhuis / Mariëtte Dulle, Center for the Art, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 2002, p. 198.
“What will sustain us in the difficult years to come is a dream of the future that is not just better than ecological collapse, but a whole lot better than the barbaric ways our system treats human and nonhuman life right now.”
Naomi Klein (born 1970) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Forward to A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal by Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos (2019)
“Twenty-third Street wasn’t busy—a little early for the lunch crowd—but he kept getting trapped behind iPhone zombies, people half his age who wandered in a dream with their eyes fixed on their screens.”
Emily St. John Mandel (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People say to me, "Kanan, this is ridiculous, democracy in Iraq, a complete pipe dream," ... That's realism. You know, in a way, the realists are right, they are always right. Even when they are morally wrong.”
Kanan Makiya (born 1949) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Regrets Only?" (7 October 2007), by Dexter Filkins, The New York Times Magazine
“I am supportive of people. I am supportive of the American Dream Trump is trying to destroy. I want them to understand. Regardless of your religion, you don’t get special privileges because you claim to believe something different from everybody else. You don’t get special privileges because you get to claim that you believe the same things as the majority.”
Aron Ra (born 1962) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Exclusive Interview with Aron Ra – Public Speaker, Atheist Vlogger, and Activist, Conatus News (May 17, 2017)
“Whereas the old White Australia Policy, in its extreme form, kept out all Asians, the new policy could be moving towards the opposite extreme. In calling for a strong, long-term flow of Third World migrants, it foreshadows the sacrificing of vital Australian interests on behalf of vague international creeds. It is also forsaking out historical experience for the sake of a nimble dream.”
Geoffrey Blainey (born 1930) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.”
Michael Dell (born 1965) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Entrepreneur: Michael Dell (13 October 2012)
“The aim of art is to get us to dream, just like music, for it expresses a mood projected onto the canvas, which arouses identical sensations in the viewer.”
Francis Picabia (1879–1953) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: two short quotes of Picabia, in 'A Paris painter', by Hapgood, published in 'The Globe and Commercial Advertiser', 20 Febr. 1913, p. 8
“Man is a torch, then ashes soon, May and June, then dead December, Dead December, then again June. Who shall end my dream's confusion? Life is a loom, weaving illusion.”
Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931) said by 1931 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hope that we some day will have a big budget and a lot of time in which to do our work. It is my dream to have an American staff and a Japanese staff work together to create a Godzilla film.”
Kenpachiro Satsuma (1947–2023) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by David Milner, "Kenpachiro Satsuma Interview I", Kaiju Conversations (December 1993)
“It is my dream to go to an independent Palestine.”
Anwar Ibrahim (born 1947) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anwar Ibrahim (2022) cited in: "It is my dream to go to an independent Palestine - PM Anwar" in MalaysiaKini, 20 December 2022.
“North Korea kept harassing the South, and one day they just clicked: Tell me that isn't a stalker's dream writ geopolitical.”
Brian Reynolds Myers (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The dream too thinks twice, gets filtered to go soft to be seated on children's eyes.”
Suman Pokhrel (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You are a worm who thought himself a serpent just because you slither. But your power was not real, Pliny. It was all a dream. Time now to wake.”
Pierce Brown (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Libraries, as spaces, need to continue to inspire the public to dream big and to think great thoughts. Cities, towns, and academic communities of all shapes and sizes need the free, open public spaces that libraries–and only libraries–provide.”
John Palfrey (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Liberty is not about class war, income war, race war, national war, a war between the sexes, or any other conflict apart from the core conflict between individuals and those who would seek power and control over the human spirit. Liberty is the dream that we can all work together, in ways of our choosing and of our own human volition, to realize a better life.”
Jeffrey Tucker (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I was teenager, I wanted to be medical doctor. I would write "Dr" into my name - "Dr Sukanto". After I got married, my wife found out and asked me, "Why did you put a 'Dr' before your name?" I said this was my dream but I couldn't continue my education because the school closed and I was not qualified to go to any school.”
Sukanto Tanoto (born 1949) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Keynote speech, Wharton Global Modular Course, May 25, 2015.
“Three times I strove to cling about her Neck, Thrice her in vain my circling Arms entwin'd She like a swift Dream flyes, or nimble Wind.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) said by 1676 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My objective is to fulfil the dream of Bangabandhu through building a hunger- and poverty-free Golden Bangladesh being imbued with the spirit of the War of Liberation.”
Sheikh Hasina (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As leaders and activists of Awami League, our responsibility is to fulfill the dream of the father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib so that every person in the country gets food, home, education, health care and prosperous life.”
Sheikh Hasina (born 1947) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: While addressing a special extended party meeting at the , the official residence of the Prime Minister of Bangladesh (20 May 2017).
“Home was a dream she’d had yesterday. A place where children used to play. Among towers near the mountains, by a river, on curving sweeps of white or golden sand beside a palace at the edge of the sea.”
Guy Gavriel Kay (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was natural that idealistic people who had ceased to believe in heaven should think up some bright hope for humanity on earth. That, I think, more than any objection to "capitalism", accounts for the spread of the socialist dream, especially in Anglo-Saxon countries.”
Max Eastman (1883–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When was the last time you set your mind to wandering beyond today to imagine a brighter tomorrow? Let your mind go, dream a little, and you might just discover that anything is possible.”
Don Soderquist (1934–2016) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Don Soderquist “The Wal-Mart Way: The Inside Story of the Success of the World's Largest Company, Thomas Nelson, April 2005, p. 107.
“I think a dream can take you farther than anything.”