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Quotes About Dreams

Un vis este o scriptur?, È™i multe scripturi nu sunt altceva decât vise.
~ Umberto Eco
Anything was possible if the impossible was true.
~ Umberto Eco
En me retraçant ces détails, j'en suis à me demander s'ils sont réels, ou bien si je les ai rêvés.
~ Umberto Eco
The gates of memory would roll open—old joys would stretch out their arms to them, old hopes and dreams would call to them, and they would stir beneath the burden that lay upon them, and feel its forever immeasurable weight. They could not even cry out beneath it; but anguish would seize them, more dreadful than the agony of death.
~ Upton Sinclair
They wish to build a new and better world, and I would be glad if they could succeed, and if I saw any hope of success I would join them. I ask for their plans, and they offer me vague dreams, in which as a man of affairs, I see no practicality. Is is like the the end of Das Rheingold: there is Valhalla, very beautiful, but only a rainbow bridge on which to get to it, and while the gods ma be able to walk on a rainbow, my investors and working people cannot.
~ Upton Sinclair
I find that all the fair and noble impulses of humanity, the dreams of poets and the agonies of martyrs, are shackled and bound in the service of organized and predatory Greed!
~ Upton Sinclair
Great moments do not last in a confused and helter-skelter world. The idealist dreams how things ought to go, but they don't—there being no perfect human creatures or groups of them.
~ Upton Sinclair
in the next dark place a camel harnessed to a pole went round and round, working a press which squeezed olive oil from loads of the fruit; the camel had a hood over his face, so that he wouldn't see what he was doing, and might dream that he was out on the desert trails where he had been born.
~ Upton Sinclair
Laurel listened, too, and now and then stole glances at the rapt faces about her; so she learned what was in the hearts of the ill-clad and hungry people whom she had been watching on the streets of this war-torn city. They wanted beauty, they wanted love, they wanted the fire of the spirit, the dreams and the glory—all the gifts which Hansi Robin had been laboring for thirty years to put into his music.
~ Upton Sinclair
In that country, rich or poor, a man was free... So America was a place of which lovers and young people dreamed.
~ Upton Sinclair
If might have beens were kings and queens, then we'd have kingdoms all.
~ Val McDermid
Era hermosa porque era buena. La cogió de la mano. Ella se acostó a su lado y él sintió su calor, sintió su tierno pecho, los hombros, el cabello. Le parecía sentir todo aquello no despierto sino en sueños: despierto, nunca había sido feliz.
~ Vasily Grossman
et iam nox umida caelo praecipitat suadentque cadentia sidera somnos
~ Vergil
Many people have dreams. However, a vision is a dream with a plan:
~ Verne Harnish
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
~ Victor Hugo
Sleep comes more easily than it returns.
~ Victor Hugo
The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven.
~ Victor Hugo
She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.
~ Victor Hugo
les plus belles années d'une vie sont celles que l'on a pas encore vécues.
~ Victor Hugo
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
~ Victor Hugo
Do we ever realize our fondest dreams?
~ Victor Hugo
Indeed, what more could you want? A little garden to amble about in, and infinite space to dream in. At his feet, whatever could be grown and gathered; over his head, whatever could be studied and meditated upon; a few flowers on the ground and all the stars in the sky.
~ Victor Hugo
To realize one's dream. To whom is this accorded? There must be elections for this in heaven; we are all candidates, unknown to ourselves; the angels vote.
~ Victor Hugo
Nothing proceeds more directly and more sincerely from the very depth of our soul, than our unpremeditated and boundless aspirations towards the splendors of destiny.
~ Victor Hugo