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Quotes About Dreams

dive for dreams or a slogan may topple you (trees are their roots and wind is wind) trust your heart if the seas catch fire (and live by love though the stars walk backward) honour the past but welcome the future (and dance your death away at this wedding) never mind a world with its villains or heroes (for god likes girls and tomorrow and the earth)
~ E.E. Cummings
deeds cannot dream what dreams can do
~ E.E. Cummings
i think you will be tired of telling me & my dreams to go to hell
~ E.E. Cummings
it's only thinking. Your pardon if I err.) i think you will be tired of telling me & my dreams to go to hell
~ E.E. Cummings
Goldman sent off a letter to Evelyn: I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them. Carrying his newspaper with your picture the laborer goes home to his wife, an exhausted workhorse with the veins standing out in her legs, and he dreams not of justice but of being rich.
~ E.L. Doctorow
I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them. Carrying home his newspaper with your picture the laborer goes home to his wife, an exhausted workhorse with veins standing out in her legs, and he dreams not of justice but of being rich.
~ E.L. Doctorow
You think these thoughts in the same way that you dream your dreams when you are asleep. In other words, you don't know you are thinking those thoughts, just as the dreamer doesn't know he is dreaming.
~ Eckhart Tolle
He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled dreams of an inarticulate lifetime.
~ Edith Wharton
Perhaps, after all, Susy reflected, it was the world she was meant for, since the other, the brief Paradise of her dreams, had already shut its golden doors upon her.
~ Edith Wharton
You mustn't tell your dreams. Miss Testvalley says nothing bores people so much as being told other people's dreams. Nan said nothing, but an iron gate seemed to clang shut in her - the gate that was so often slammed by careless hands. As if anyone could be bored by such dreams as hers!
~ Edith Wharton
What right had she to dream the dreams of loveliness?
~ Edith Wharton
FOR THREE NIGHTS in a row, Dilly has dreamed of Gabriel, a look of yearning on his face, the clothes hanging off him, making no attempt to come to her and yet making his presence felt, standing on an empty road, like he was waiting. Three nights in a row. "It must mean that he's trying to reach you," Sister says. "It doesn't," Dilly answers
~ Edna O'Brien
I had no night terrors. Maybe when your real life becomes the terror, there's just nothing left to dream about
~ Edward Bloor
There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.
~ Edward Gibbon
New Orleans is a city you must visit when you're young and foolish but return to when you're wiser and still searching for your dreams.
~ Edward Lee
Imagine. Freedom. Always.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
imaginarias a lo largo
~ Edward Rutherfurd
As immigrant artists for whom so much has been sacrificed, so many dreams have been deferred, we already doubt so much. Who do we think we are? We think we are people who risked not existing at all. People who might have had a mother and father killed, either by a government or nature, even before we were born. Some of us think we are accidents of literacy. I do.
~ Edwidge Danticat
If there is a heaven, it should be like all the places you love or the places you've never been but wish you'd visited while you were still alive. -Giselle
~ Edwidge Danticat
Then what do you want with me?'... 'The pursuit of happiness.
~ Edwidge Danticat
You may be surprised what we use our dreams to do, how we drape them over our sight and carry them like amulets to protect us from evil spells.
~ Edwidge Danticat
deeds cannot dream what dreams can do —time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough
~ ee cummings
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
~ Albert Camus
I live my daydreams in music.
~ Albert Einstein