Quotes About Aspiration

Closing her eyes, she began to let herself dream. Not sleep dreaming, but dreaming of how her life might be. It was a thing she didn't often do. In her experience, good things came with great difficulty and were too easily snatched away. She'd longo ago learned to accept what she had at any given moment and try to be happy with only that. She could think about the furniture, plan even, but not expect. It was the expectation that was the trap.

Which turned out to be a thing I couldn't do. Not because imagination failed me, but because I was afraid to dream in that way. In my whole life, I could recall no dream ever coming true.

A man's reach should exceed his grasp; else what's a heaven for? (Quote by Robert Browning)

Svajon?s išlaisvina.

Some critics may say Noonday was mad. He was not. Toweringly weird, yes--mad, no. He saw that in five years he would attain the Presidency of the University. Form there he could embark on a career leading straight to the White House, that High Seat of the Lie, open only to holders of the Third Degree of Falsehood.

More than anything in this world, I wish I had been born rich. It would have made up for everything. I'd still be ugly, sure, but I'd be rich and ugly. I'd still be weak and dim and tongue-tied with women, but I'd be rich enough for them not to care. I'd no longer be a social misfit, I'd be eccentric. And most of all, I'd no longer be what I was, I'd be something different.

History is a warning to ourselves, and only by remembering where we have been and how low we have fallen can we know to where we aspire,

Dreams and Dedication are a powerful combination.

Dream and Dedication are a powerful combination.

Vanity is often the unseen spur.

I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Itu cita-citamu? Menjadi penyair?" "Tidak. Aku tidak punya bakat untuk itu." "Apa bakatmu?" "Aku tidak tahu. Tidak semua orang punya bakat?" "Benar. Meski orang-orang mengatakan sebaliknya.

This is 1987. A girl can be whatever she wants to be." "I know," said Ray. "My mums a plumber.

I wanted to play sports my whole life. That's all I really wanted to do.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, 'Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman.

We can be heroes just for one day

trying to mold one's life around the heroic and deep souls one found in books. Day read as if her whole life depended upon it.

Human beings are primarily defined by what we desire, not what we know.

You can't counter a heroic impulse with a mundane and bourgeois response. You can counter it only with a more compelling heroic vision.

Joy is a byproduct experienced by people who are aiming for something else. But it comes.

Bowie drew our attention to the fact that a person could play the part of a rock star before actually becoming one.

I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.