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Quotes About Aspirations

The longer I've been doing this, the more I've realized that you have no idea what kinds of roles are possible for you - dream roles can take you by surprise. That being said, I need to play Hamlet one day. I'd also love to be in a play that I have written myself.
~ Jake Epstein
The most surprising thing - and the thing I really didn't think I would have an opportunity to do when I was younger - was I didn't realize the kind of roles I would be able to play. I thought it would be, like, two lines here, the joke.
~ Danielle Macdonald
Making your band your career just seems like a pipe dream when it's not happening, and when it does, it seems so surreal.
~ Matt Skiba
I think everyone practices their Oscars acceptance speech with a shampoo bottle, and I've done my fair share of them. It's really surreal to be able to do it in real life.
~ Graham Moore
The government must adopt a rights-based approach that speaks to the needs and aspirations of surrogate mothers, children born out of surrogacy, and all individuals who want access to altruistic surrogacy services.
~ Kapil Sibal
Los sueños son eso de lo que uno se despierta.
~ Raymond Carver
We'll never again be the boys we once were, Tomas. But we've become so much more than we dreamed.
~ Raymond E. Feist
solely through the slow and steady building of personal relationships that one discovers the fundamental truth that all people everywhere have the same dreams and aspirations, that all people struggle with the same fears and anxieties.
~ Reza Aslan
Iran's previous attempts at democracy were thwarted by foreigners—the British and Russians in 1905–1911; the United States in 1953—whose interests were served by suppressing all democratic aspirations in the region.
~ Reza Aslan
How is it we're the lucky ones, living a life that the children-we-were took for dreams?
~ Richard Bach
Some might have referred to Vince, Buck and Calvin as ordinary fellows or salt of the earth. Such terms are merely code for men who've led lives in which boyhood dreams become a luxury, a whim, before boyhood even comes to an end.
~ Julia Glass
One day, she said, I'll catch dreams like butterflies. And then what? he asked. Then I'll put them between the pages of big, fat books and press them until they're words. Suppose there's someone who never dreams of anything but you? Maybe then we're both words in a book. Two names among all the others.
~ Kai Meyer
She'd had a glimpse of a possible future-the pretty cottage, the garden full of flowers and vegetables, bread in the oven, a bowl of strawberries on the table, the happy baby hitched on her hip while she threw corn to the chickens. It would be like a Hardy novel before it all goes wrong.
~ Kate Atkinson
A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Arab and Islamic nation has lost a great man and one of its fearless men who dedicated his life to the service of the people of this nation and their aspirations.
~ Saad Hariri
To the worldy man Karma is a stern Nemesis, to the spiritual man Karma unfolds itself in harmony with his highest aspirations.
~ William Quan Judge
If a man can dream, if a man can have goals, he can be happy and he can be alive. If he has no goals he doesn't even have a future.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
The more talented a young man is, the earlier the recruiting process usually begins.
~ Billy Kennedy
We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.
~ Victor Hugo
This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men's dreams.
~ Anais Nin
We have a man [Donald Trump] who understands the frustrations and the aspirations of our fellow citizens.
~ Chris Christie
Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.
~ Luc de Clapiers
The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer.
~ Nick Tosches