#dream

cross-national studies show that the U.S. poverty rate, which stands persistently above 12 percent, is not only the highest poverty rate of any advanced industrial nation, but is more than twice the average for that group. Pursuing the American Dream, 9, 276 ↗

— Cal Jillson

#poverty #dreams

Without Pegi, I'm an island without an ocean ↗

— Neil Young

#life #dreams

Now, this was a combination that she wouldn’t dare to dream of, even in her worst nightmare. ↗

— B. Barmanbek

#future #science-fiction #utopia #dreams

Don't Ever Sell Your Dream, it's Priceless ↗

— Bernard Kelvin Clive

#life-purpose #dreams

Ignite the fire within you and it will allow you to live your special dreams in life. You were born for it and your destiny. Now...live it! ↗

— Timothy Pina

#dreams

The jangle of the telephone rousted Matt out of a deep sleep. He never dreamed. Dreams were too messy. ↗

— Peggy Webb

#dreams #messy #dreams

Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained, for he had not learned what he should believe or should not believe. Present a statement to him in flagrant contradiction to all Christian doctrine and he could be persuaded to agree on its good sense, unless he remembered it was the sort of thing of which pyres are made for the incautious. ↗

— Iain Pears

#doctrine #education #freedom #freedom-of-religion #freedom-of-thought

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#dreams #fiction #literature #change

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#language #dreams

…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#jo-s-boys #louisa-may-alcott #youth #dreams