Quotes About Aspirations

You must put these dreams aside, they will only break your heart.

We had never built, never created, only stolen your garments and lived in your cities and fed ourselves on your life, your vitality, your very blood—but we could create, given a chance, we had it within us to whisper stories of cities of our own. The red thirst has been a curse, has made my race and yours enemies, has robbed my people of all noble aspirations.

We're pursuing a strategy of freedom around the world, because I understand free nations will reject terror. Free nations will answer the hopes and aspirations of their people.

the crisis of the modern world was first of all a crisis of ideas, a crisis in the very idea of the human person. History was driven by culture and the ideas that formed cultures. Ideas had consequences. And if the idea of the human person that dominated a culture was flawed, one of two things would happen. Either that culture would give birth to destructive aspirations, or it would be incapable of realizing its fondest hopes, even if it expressed them in the most nobly humanistic terms.

Good actors, including political actors, do not deal in unrealities. Rather, they create realities that matter – perceptions, aspirations, allegiances.

We must always have old memories and young hopes.

One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.

To have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals.

To dream too much of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past.

If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.

Kad bismo svi imali mogu?nosti, hrabrosti i snage da samo jedan dio svojih maštanja i najvrelijih želja pretvorimo u stvarnost, samo u jednom ?asu svoga života, bilo bi cijelom svijetu i nama samima odmah jasno ko smo, i šta sve mi ljudi možemo da postanemo i budemo.

DREAMS THE CHILDREN HAVE FOR

Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed by the state, force them to attend schools where the higher aspirations of humanity are crushed out, and where the mind is filled with the materialism of the day, and it is difficult to see how even the remnants of liberty can subsist.

I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

If you can't see an example of what you could be, you really aren't going to have that extra incentive to break through any types of barriers.

My father kind of had hopes that I was going to become an artist like him - the typical thing. Of course I could play guitar better than him when I was about 12. But I couldn't paint better than him. So I went, 'I'm going to be the guitarist of the house, not the painter.'

The tyranny of Communism is as old as the Pharaohs and the Pyramids - that the State stands above all men and their individual aspirations.

Kids always used to come up and ask me if I ever fought Mike Tyson, and I used to tell them that we couldn't because we were in different weight classes.

In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.

I would love to work with Quentin Tarantino - he's my number one. My ultimate. I would love to work with Paul Thomas Anderson, Alexander Payne - Pedro Almodovar wouldn't be too shabby. There are so many good directors, but those are some of my favorites.