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- I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope. Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Agamemnon
- To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- Hope is a waking dream.Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.
Brett Butler, 'Knee Deep in Paradise'
- To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
Cynthia Ozick, O Magazine, September 2002
- He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
- Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), "Eleonora"
- The wisest men follow their own direction.
Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
- Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)
- You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Back to Methuselah" (1921), part 1, act 1
- Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Germaine Greer, O Magazine, September 2002
- They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.
Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
- Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.
Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
- We need men who can dream of things that never were.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
- Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John Updike (1932 - )
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