quotes about dreams

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. ~Bernard Berenson, Notebook, 1892



Wind chimes in your yard will serenade garden creatures - squirrels, fairies and angels. ~Author Unknown



Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm. ~William Wordsworth



Of all the supervised conditions for life offered man, those under USA's constitution have proved the best. Wherefore, be sure when you start modifying, corrupting or abrogating it. ~Martin H. Fischer



It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness. ~Fred Hoyle, Of Man and Galaxies



History is a great dust heap. ~Thomas Carlyle, Obiter Dicta



Keep your Christmas-heart open all the year round. ~Jessica Archmint



You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell. ~Christopher Marlowe



To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. ~Confucius, Analects



I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: He fornicated and read the papers. ~Albert Camus



Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. ~Frank Tyger



Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed. ~Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu



Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. ~Edward Vernon Rickenbacker



Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ~George F. Will



This statesman was no conqueror, but his superiority consisted in his moral conquest; this President vanquished no foreign people, and his superiority lay in his self-constraint; this excellent judge of human nature cast a spell over nobody, yet is more fascinating than the shining victors of history. ~Emil Ludwig



To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life? ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. ~Napoleon Bonaparte



Ah gravity, thou art a heartless bitch. ~From the television show The Big Bang Theory, written by Chuck Lorre, Bill Prady, Robert Cohen, and Dave Goetsch, "The Big Bran Hypothesis"



Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. ~Virginia Woolf



A lifetime of training for just ten seconds. ~Jesse Owens