Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Hugo

There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our mind. Nothing springs more directly and more sincerely from the very bottom of our souls than our unreflected and indefinite aspirations towards the splendours of destiny.

Victor Hugo

To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view. The submarine gulf is analogous to the realm of night and dreams. There also is sleep, unconsciousness, or at least apparent unconsciousness, of creation. There in the awful silence and darkness, the rude first forms of life, phantomlike, demoniacal, pursue their horrible instincts.

Victor Hugo

Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming - the echo of God on the human wall!

Victor Hugo

Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.

Victor Hugo

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

Victor Hugo

To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.

Vic Braden

The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.

Victor Borge

In my dreams of Heaven, I always see the great Masters gathered in a huge hall in which they all reside. Only Mozart has his own suite.

Veronica Roth

Sleep,” he says. “I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.” “With what?” “My bare hands, obviously.

Richard Bach

The world is a dream, you say, and it’s lovely, sometimes. Sunset. Clouds. Sky.” “No. The image is a dream. The beauty is real. Can you see the difference?

Richard Bach

Everybody is given a Dream... you may have to work for it however...

Richard Bach

When you dream, all the scenery, characters, events, perils, and outcomes are built from your own consciousness, the darks and oppressions as well as the delights. Same with the world awake, though it takes you longer to build it.

Richard Bach

And behind it lies not blind chance but a principle that works to help us understand, a thousand "coincidences" and friends come to show us the way when the problem seems too hard to solve alone. Problems for overcoming. Freedom for proving. And, as long as we believe in our dream, nothing by chance.

Richard Bach

How is it we’re the lucky ones, living a life that the children-we-were took for dreams?

Richard Bach

Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.

Richard Bach

Cherish yesterday, Dream tomorrow, Live today.

Richard Bach

The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.

Robert Fritz

In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails.

Robert Fritz

Too many young people are being taught to give up their dreams before they have any experience attempting to pursue them.

Robert Foster Bennett

A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album.

Robert Frost

The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

Robert Frost

So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.

Robert Fulghum

The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history.

Robert Fulghum

Dreams are more powerful than facts.

Robert Fulghum

It’s the spirit here that counts. The time may be long, the vehicle may be strange or unexpected. But if the dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what there is close at hand, everything is still possible.

Robert Bly

What does it mean when a man falls in love with a radiant face across the room? It may mean that he has some soul work to do. His soul is the issue. Instead of pursuing the woman and trying to get her alone, away from her husband, he needs to go alone himself, perhaps to a mountain cabin, for three months, write poetry, canoe down a river, and dream. That would save some women a lot of trouble.

Rita Dove

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

Rita Dove

I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!

Rita Dove

The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now

Rick Mears

America allows us to be able to dream, then gives us the ability to achieve those dreams.

Rick Mears

The American Dream is about freedom.

Rick Mears

For me, the American Dream was to go racing; for others, it's to pursue whatever their goals may be.

Richard Tyler

Success is the consequence of first having dreams and then acting upon them.