“Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

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Spanish writer 1964

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

“Weve got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.”

Walt Disney (1901–1966) American film producer and businessman

“That [Lottery] ticket, of course, didn’t win. And neither would any of the tickets I buy after it, but they would give me hope.”

Elliot Rodger (1991–2014) American spree killer

My Twisted World (2014), Thoughts at 18, Hope

“We all must wake up because this is a time to arise from slumber and make our dream come true.”

Lazarus Chakwera (1955) Malawi religious figure and politician

Lazarus Chakwera [citation needed]

“Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

“I think that it's when we step out of the road, step outside the box, become our own person and we walk fearlessly down paths other people wouldn't look at, that true progress comes. And sometimes true beauty as well.”

John McAfee (1945) American computer programmer and businessman

BBC News: "John McAfee: Addict, coder, runaway" https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-24441931 (11 October 2013)

“When you buy a lottery ticket, you don't know how tickets have been sold. But sold they have been. And there is an underlying distribution for the game.”

Robert Haugen (1942–2013) American economist

Source: The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why (1999), Chapter 3, Estimating Portfolio Risk and Expected Return with Ad Hoc Factor Models, p. 29

“Dream beautiful dreams and then work to make those dreams come true.”

Spencer W. Kimball (1895–1985) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

“We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!”

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931–2015) 11th President of India, scientist and science administrator

Source: Eternal quest: life & times of Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (2002), p. 64.

“I think the true discovery of America is before us. I think the true fulfillment of our spirit, of our people, of our mighty and immortal land, is yet to come. I think the true discovery of our own democracy is still before us. And I think that all these things are certain as the morning, as inevitable as noon. I think I speak for most men living when I say that our America is Here, is Now, and beckons on before us, and that this glorious assurance is not only our living hope, but our dream to be accomplished.”

Thomas Wolfe book You Can't Go Home Again

Book VII, Ch. 48: Credo
You Can't Go Home Again (1940)

“Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.”

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