Wishful Dreams Quotes

#1. What is needed is care; a great deal of patience; and the laying aside of many preconceived opinions, wishful dreams, and the blind sway of demands.

Jean Gebser

#2. To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

Agnes Varda

#3. I think for me, what I'm doing on set is I'm watching things happen as an audience member and trying to just look at, what's the image we're photographing, how will that advance the story and what will the next image be.

Christopher Nolan

#4. If coffee were like dreams, then I would be wired in constant bliss, never needing sleep to live out my dreams.

Anthony Liccione

#5. My high school years were fun and frustrating, typical of the teen years. The most important accomplishment was meeting my wife, Ruth.

Alan J. Heeger

#6. A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.

Anne Lamott

#7. It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.

Anthony Doerr

#8. I would tend to say that I do what I do as well as possible and that most people don't.

Jasper Johns

#9. You don't owe your country nothing," I remember him telling me. "You owe it something, and depending on what happens, you might owe it your life.

Sebastian Junger

#10. Hope is not wishful thinking. It's not a temperament we're born with. It is a stance toward life that we can choose ... not not. The real question for me, though, is whether m hope is effective, whether it produces or is just where I hide to ease my own pain.

Frances Moore Lappe

#11. At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching.

James Levine

#12. I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.

Rachel Weisz

#13. I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

#14. My past is very interesting, and I treasure it, but to write about it, it's just not on my radar.

Steve Vai

#15. We have, I think, a very rigid and limited definition of what an advantage is. We think of things as helpful that actually aren't and think of other things as unhelpful that in reality leave us stronger and wiser.

Malcolm Gladwell

#16. Sometimes something that you've been asking for
It's just something that you could not see before.
For it was something that made you belong,
And that was there the whole time all along.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#17. Mr. Luskin also says that Rove did not knowingly disclose classified information and did not tell any reporters that Valerie Plame worked for the C.I.A.

Michael Isikoff

#18. Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened, where obstacles dissolve under the weight of desire, and where reality has vanished entirely.

Iain Pears

#19. I'm looking at looting photos from space, and there are people putting their lives on the line every day protecting their heritage. I call these people the real culture heroes.

Sarah Parcak

#20. If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.

Nancy Pickard