Quotes About Aspiration

It isn't just children who need heros.

Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life...

It is human nature to strive.

Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

Young, gifted, and destitute...

Not really," she said in a sad voice. Sometimes I feel so resentful. If I were a better person I'd—

Most of us live in two worlds -- our real world and the one we build or spin for ourselves out of the books we read, the heroes we admire, the things we hope to do.

My mother dreamed dreams for Joaquin and for me long before we could dream them for ourselves.

Realization of a dream brings resentment in its wake.

i confess i cannot help myself. i am imaginig my self as his wife. i suppose while im at it , i might as well imagine myself as queen of england,too.

Whatever man imagines is possible

That's why they call it a dream, Tone. Because it'll never be a reality.

But women grow the living dreams, the human ones." Gorbals argues. "A human being is the greatest creation of all. Each of us is a new living dream.

Fox wants too much. Sometimes in the rush of hyper-speed he dreams impossible dreams, dreams that cannot be. The difficult thing, he has discovered, is not just knowing how to dream but knowing what to dream. And the most difficult thing of all is when you find the answer to both. Then you start to believe in your dreams--the impossible dreams that can't come true.

As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.

As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money.

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.

Can we stop calling it a bucket list? Again: implied death," I noted. "I thought it meant all the things you can fi t into a bucket to do." "Um, no, I think it means all the things you can do before you kick the bucket. Which, actually, I think is an allusion to suicide, right? Like, kicking the bucket out from under your feet while you hang. Or maybe someone else is kicking out the bucket.

Without the Project I was nothing but a secretary on a road to nowhere, drifting toward frosted hair and menthol addiction.

I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.

I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.

Sean realistas pidan lo imposible

El desaparesido kreía en la bida futura. Si lo konfirmó, ke aya en eya la felisidad ke, aunke kon distintas karakterísticas, anelamos todos los umanos.