Quotes About Aspiration

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

Glory went to look in on her father. He lay on his right side, his face composed, intent on sleep. His hair had been brushed into a soft white cloud, like harmless aspiration, like a mist given off by the endless work of dreaming.

So often I have known, right there in the pulpit, even as I read the words, how far they fell short of any hopes I had for them.

We can feel deficiency in what we know or do, we can hear inadequacy in our most painfully considered phrases. And gracious and chimerical beauty will bless us with the certainty that there is more to be hoped for, more to be tried.

None of us here want to see our children follow in our footsteps, it's too hard a life.

We hope someday to be saints, but not martyrs

Like any other parent he wanted his children to go to better schools and mix with better companions

Lo injusta que es a veces la suerte con los artistas que sueñan con encontrar el Paraíso en este terrenal valle de lágrimas.

We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.

Inventamos las ficciones para poder vivir de alguna manera las muchas vidas que quisiéramos tener cuando apenas disponemos de una sola.

los dramáticos contrastes de un país donde los trabajadores viven amontonados en un cuarto y sólo tienen derecho a comprar dos vestidos al año, mientras engordan con la satisfacción de saber que un proyectil soviético ha llegado a la luna»

relato está manifestándose, sintéticamente, una totalización equivalente a la que el todo aspira a representar.

ciertas cosas, como la casquette de Charles, son más locuaces y trascendentes que sus dueños, y nos revelan, mejor que las palabras y los actos de aquéllos, la personalidad del amo: su estatuto social, su economía, sus costumbres, sus aspiraciones, su imaginación, su sentido artístico, sus creencias.

Besides, what Dominican woman wouldn't like to be the First Lady?

Arévalo quisiera hacer de Guatemala una democracia, como los Estados Unidos, país que admira y tiene como modelo. Los soñadores suelen ser peligrosos, y en este sentido el doctor Arévalo lo es. Su proyecto no tiene la menor posibilidad de realizarse. ¿Cómo se podría convertir en una democracia moderna un país de tres millones de habitantes, el setenta por ciento de los cuales son indios analfabetos que apenas han salido del paganismo, o todavía

Don't ask for the moon -- we have the stars! Pardon my saying so, but fuck the fucking stars!

Always live your life with your biography in mind, Dad was fond of saying. Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly.

Always life your life with your biography in mind. Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a magnificent reason, but at the very least you'll be living grandly.

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until I became that person. Or he became me.' In the end, a man turns into what he thinks he is, however large or small.

I'm happy to see you so well-settled here. Now you must make an effort, you must become somebody. I don't care what you do later, only try to be the best. Even if you become a cabaret dance, better that you dance at the lido than in a hole in the wall.

What sets lion chasers apart isn't the outcome. It's the courage to chase God-sized dreams.

I want what everybody wants, that's how I know I'm still breathing...

Also I didn't have 20/20 vision which you needed to be a pilot. But I said you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

He said that it was very difficult to become an astronaut. I said that I knew. You had to become an officer in the air force and you had to take lots of orders and be prepared to kill other human beings, and I couldn't take orders. Also I didn't have 20/20 vision, which you needed to be a pilot. But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.