Source: Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
Source: Fanshawe
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American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879) 1804–1864Related quotes

“Today was the day a thousand dreams would die and a single dream would be born.”
Source: The Kiss of Deception

Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano's, 1927), trans. Richard Aldington, letter 48 from Frederick to Voltaire (1740-01-06)

“More noise occurs from a single man shouting than a hundred thousand who are quiet.”
Hace más ruído un sólo hombre gritando que cien mil que están callados.
100 Masones Su Palabra (2010)

“I'm more determined than ever that my husband's dream will become a reality.”
Statement soon after her husband's slaying in April 1968, as quoted in CNN obituary (January 31, 2006) http://www2.cnn.com/2006/US/01/31/king.obit.ap/

Sefer Hamitzvot [Book of the Commandments], commentary on Negative Commandment 290, as translated by Charles B. Chavel (1967); also in Defending the Human Spirit : Jewish Law's Vision for a Moral Society (2006) by Warren Goldstein, p. 269

1950's, On Being a Graphic Artist', 1953
Context: The result of the struggle between the thought and the ability to express it, between dream and reality, is seldom more than a compromise or an approximation. Thus there is little chance that we will succeed in getting through to a large audience, and on the whole we are quite satisfied if we are understood and appreciated by a small number of sensitive, receptive people.