Famous Quotes & Sayings

John McCain

We should be I hope finally realizing what Vladimir Putin is. He's an old colonel, KGB, apparatchik, and he dreams of the restoration of the Russian empire.

John James Ingalls

The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.

John Huston

Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams

John Hersey

When the writing is really working, I think there is something like dreaming going on. I don't know how to draw the line between the conscious management of what you're doing and this state. . . . I would say that it's related to daydreaming. When I feel really engaged with a passage, I become so lost in it that I'm unaware of my real surroundings, totally involved in the pictures and sounds that that passage evokes.

John Henrik Clarke

When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African colonies. Marcus Garvey's avocation of African redemption and the restoration of the African state's sovereign political entity in world affairs was still a dream without fulfillment.

John Henrik Clarke

If you expect the present day school system to give history to you, you are dreaming. This, we have to do ourselves. The Chinese didn't go out in the world and beg people to teach Chinese studies or let them teach Chinese studies. The Japanese didn't do that either. People don't beg other people to restore their history; they do it themselves.

John Henry Newman

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

John Henry Newman

It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.

John H. Johnson

It's not what the dream is but what the dream does.

John H. Johnson

If you can somehow think and dream of success in small steps, every time you make a step, every time you accomplish a small goal, it gives you confidence to go on from there.

John H. Johnson

Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.

John H. Johnson

I would tell young people to start where they are with what they have and that the secret of a big success is starting with a small success and dreaming bigger and bigger dreams, I would tell them also that a young Black woman or a young Black man can't dream too much today or dare too much if he or she works hard, perseveres and dedicates themselves to excellence.

John Hagee

If love is a dream, then marriage is the alarm clock.

John Hagee

Jesus knows the burdens we carry and the tears we shed, but He is the healer of broken hearts, broken dreams, and broken lives. Trust him. He never fails.

Any time you take a big player out of your offense and two out of your defense, you wonder and dream how much better you could have been. But we're not going to dwell on it.

Lord Byron

Sleep hath its own world, and a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, and tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy.

Sleep, Death's twin-brother, knows not Death,/ Nor can I dream of thee as dead.

Jeremy Abbott

Skating, I think I was told once, is the second most expensive sport. My family's had to refinance three times - they really want to do anything that it takes for my dreams to come true. I hope to one day have a family that I can do that for and kind of give back in the same way that my family gave to me.

Ayn Rand

The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.

Ayn Rand

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

Ayn Rand

There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.

Ayn Rand

Believing in fate produces fate. Believing in freedom will create infinite possibilities.

Aubrey McClendon

I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you're... unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations.

Bertrand Russell

America ... where laws and customs alike are based on the dreams of spinsters.

Bertrand Russell

I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not.

Bertrand Russell

It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less fortunate times in which it is despised and rejected as the vain dream of men who lack the virility to kill where they cannot agree.

Benjamin Banneker

Never abandon your vision. Keep reaching to further your dreams.

Eric Williams

He's persevered. He's come from a long road. It's the stuff that dreams are made of.

Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.

To be here with all those great players applauding me is a dream come true,

Sabrina Bryan

Friends can have different dreams and do different things.

To reach this level was really a dream come true. In this tournament, realistically, we were a small fish in a big pond.

This sounds corny, but this is my dream job - second to being a rock star. As a boy, I knew I wanted to work at Scripps.