Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henri Frederic Amiel

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.

Henri Frederic Amiel

I have never felt any inward assurance of genius, or any presentiment of glory or of happiness. I have never seen myself in imagination great or famous, or even a husband, a father, an influential citizen. This indifference to the future, this absolute self-distrust, are, no doubt, to be taken as signs. What dreams I have are all vague and indefinite; I ought not to live, for I am now scarcely capable of living.

Helen Keller

Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.

Helen Keller

The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.

Cat Stevens

You may still be here tomorrow...but your dreams may not.

Cat Stevens

I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be someday it's going to come.

Cat Stevens

Take your time, think a lot, Why, think of everything you've got. For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not. From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen. Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away. I know I have to go.

Cate Blanchett

Mind the gap - it's the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is.

Cassandra Clare

You are not the last dream of my soul. You are the first dream, the only dream I ever was unable to stop myself from dreaming. You are the first dream of my soul, and from that dream I hope will come all other dreams, a lifetime’s worth.

Cassandra Clare

I don't know how I could sleep at night, not knowing I was surrounded by a thousand other sleeping, dreaming souls. - pg 120, Jem to Tessa & Will

Cassandra Clare

He closed his eyes. “I’m so tired, Tess,” he said. “I only wanted pleasant dreams for once.” “That is not the way to get them, Will,” she said softly. “You cannot buy or drug or dream your way out of pain.

Cassandra Clare

What were you dreaming about?" "You." He twisted a lock of her hair around his finger. "I always dream about you." "Oh, yeah? Because I thought you were having a nightmare." He tipped his head back to look at her. "Sometimes I dream you're gone," he said. "I keep wondering when you'll figure out how much better you could do and leave me.

Cassandra Clare

Magnus stood up and went to the window. He pushed the curtain back, letting in just enough light to silhouette his hawklike profile. "Blood," he said, half to himself. "I had a dream two nights ago. I saw a city all of blood, with towers made of bone, and blood ran in the streets like water." Simon slewed his eyes over to Jace. "Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?" "No," said Jace, "sometimes he sits on the couch and does it.

George Eliot

Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.

Guy Finley

Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

It's easier to swoon in pious dreams Than do good actions.

Gina Lollobrigida

My cinema - the '50s, '60s - is different from the cinema today so I thought that it would not be bad to show that kind of cinema where we could dream.

Gina Carano

When you dream big, you eventually attract big things.

Gillian Flynn

To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.

Gillian Jacobs

It's sometimes hard to accept that the people you love and feel the closest to may have different dreams and goals from yours, and those are valid. And I've felt that way: accepting people's differences and recognizing them as valid choices even if they're different from your own.

Gian Carlo Menotti

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

Gianni Versace

My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.

Gianni Versace

My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.

Giancarlo Esposito

There is a dream that the world could be at peace, but that requires that all the folks with arms disarm, or take over all the arms and allow us to trust them.

Gerhard Richter

You can compare it to dreams: you have a very specific and individual pictorial language that you either accept or that you can translate rashly and wrongly. Of course, you can ignore dreams, but that would be a shame, because they're useful.

Harvey Milk

The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods.

Harvey Milk

Lets make no mistake about this: The American Dream starts with the neigborhoods. If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. And to do that, we must understand that the quality of life is more important than the standard of living.

James De La Vega

The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream … Hang in there.

James De La Vega

I encourage everyone to become their dream. Most young people get sidetracked and never end up doing what they really set out to do.

James Dean

You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one's watching. Love as if it's all you know. Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

James Dean

Remember: Life is short, break the rules (they were made to be broken) Forgive quickly, kiss slowly Love truly, laugh uncontrollably And never regret anything that makes you smile. The clouds are lined with silver and the glass is half full (though the answers won't be found at the bottom) Don't sweat the small stuff, You are who you are meant to be, Dance as if no one's watching, Love as if it's all you know, Dream as if you'll live forever, Live as if you'll die today

James D. Watson

If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.