Dreams and Desires

"No limits but the sky."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra "Don Quixote de la Mancha"

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 9.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"You cannot eat your cake and have your cake."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra "Don Quixote de la Mancha"

Dreams and Desires

Various

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future."

Elie Wiesel "Hope, Despair, and Memory"

Dreams and Desires

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 9.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"I have dreams, and I have nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams."

Jonas Salk

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse."

Walt Disney

Dreams and Desires

Success and Fame

Rating: 9.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

Michael Jordan

Dreams and Desires

Success and Fame

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

Edgar Allan Poe

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Men willingly believe what they wish."

Julius Caesar

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to."

Khalil Gibran

Dreams and Desires

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long."

Joseph Heller "Something Happened"

Dreams and Desires

Memory

Rating: 9.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it."

Ogden Nash

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 8.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The future is no place to place your better days."

Dave Matthews

Dreams and Desires

Time and Passing

Rating: 6.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave."

Cyril Connolly

Dreams and Desires

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes."

Jawaharlal Nehru

Dreams and Desires

Peace and War

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true."

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Dreams and Desires

Success and Fame

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"There is no top. There are always further heights to reach."

Jascha Heifetz

Dreams and Desires

Success and Fame

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."

William Dement

Dreams and Desires

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality."

Ralph Marston

Dreams and Desires

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"I say to myself, go on seeking, be glad for being sensitive, be glad you're able to go beyond the resistance inside you. It is our resistance to what we experience that makes creativity possible. So don't get rid of resistance like that by going around it or trying to eliminate it. Our own limitations put up strong resistance, but it's because of that that we are creators."

Brother Roger of Taize

Dreams and Desires

Power and Weakness

Work and Laziness

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

William Butler Yeats

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Nothing much happens without a dream. For something really great to happen, it takes a really great dream."

Robert Greenleaf

Dreams and Desires

Success and Fame

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"If your dream doesn't come true, it's only because God has something even better planned for you."

David Jeremiah

Dreams and Desires

God and Religion

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have."

Publilius Syrus

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

Clarence Irving Lewis

Dreams and Desires

Youth and Age

Rating: 8.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Common sense is unhealthy for dreams."

Kazimierz Matan

Dreams and Desires

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Obstacles are what a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal."

Henry Ford

Dreams and Desires

Question and Problem

Rating: 7.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A goal is a dream taken seriously."

Henry David Thoreau

Dreams and Desires

Success and Fame

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."

Timothy Leary

Dreams and Desires

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it."

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Dreams and Desires

Success and Fame

Rating: 6.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body."

Henry Louis Mencken "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Dreams and Desires

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier."

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Dreams and Desires

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Miracles are like jokes. They relieve our tension suddenly by setting us free from the chain of cause and effect."

Gerald Branan "Thoughts in a Dry Season: A Miscellany"

Dreams and Desires

Reality and Imagination

Wit and Humor

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Love is the crocodile on the river of desire."

Bhartihari

Dreams and Desires

Love

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high."

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 5.57 (Number of Voters: 7)

"If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire."

Gertrude Stein

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes."

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Dreams and Desires

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"You get old only when you start having more memories than dreams."

Agnieszka Lisak

Dreams and Desires

Memory

Youth and Age

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean."

Dag Hammarskjöld

Dreams and Desires

Forgiveness

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape from Death."

J.R.R. Tolkien

Dreams and Desires

Life and Death

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore."

Edward Dahlberg "Reasons of the Heart"

Dreams and Desires

Manners and Ethics

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dreams and Desires

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable."

Leo Rosten

Dreams and Desires

Happiness

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."

Henry David Thoreau

Dreams and Desires

Life and Death

Pain and Tears

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"When a man is willing and eager, the gods join in."

Aeschylus

Dreams and Desires

Success and Fame

Rating: 4.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

Eleanor Roosevelt

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 4.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Follow the fellow who follows a dream."

E.Y. Harburg "Finian's Rainbow"

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"If you don't have a dream how you gonna have a dream come true?"

Oscar Hammerstein from song "Happy Talk"

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts."

Salman Rushdie "Midnight's Children"

Dreams and Desires

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)