“How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!”
Life and Human Nature.
Afterthoughts (1931)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Logan Pearsall Smith37
British American-born writer 1865–1946Related quotes
“Daydreams were dangerous because they made her wish for things she could never have.”
Julie Garwood (1946) American writer
Source: Ransom
Alessandro Pepoli (1757–1796) Italian writer
In questo mondo, quante cose sonc e non sembrano! e quante poi sembrano e non sono!
La Scomessa, Act I., Sc. III. — (Il Marchese.). Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 325.
Warren Ellis (1968) English comics and fiction writer
in Freakangels.com http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3526&page=2#Item_14 <br class="br">Context: (On Timothy McVeigh references) In terms of DOKTOR SLEEPLESS (I don't remember much of TRANSMET), it's just a nod to how quickly we assimilate our monsters. How many years was it between Charlie Manson being the terror of California and Charlie Manson being an image on joke t-shirts? I have a shirt somewhere with a pic of his face and, underneath it, the words CHARLIE DON'T SURF. Hitler's a cartoon figure now. Eminem dressed up as bin Laden within a couple of years of 9/11. It's interesting to me how we defang our nightmares -- by mocking them, but also by wearing their skins.
Catherine Rowett (1956) Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia (born 1956)
Source: Presocratic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2004), Ch. 1 : Lost words, forgotten worlds
Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer
Source: The Wild Orchid: A Retelling of The Ballad of Mulan
“Else the coming days would be dangerous for them.”
Narendra Modi (1950) Prime Minister of India
2006, 2006 essay by Modi
Context: Hindus were tolerant, he said, and would remain so. But tolerance didn't mean they wouldn't defend themselves. Looking at the terrorism that had been encouraged to spread in the last few years, Hindus would have to be aware of their need for self-defence. Else the coming days would be dangerous for them.
Stacy McGaugh (1964) American astronomer
[Stacy McGaugh, "Degenerating problemshift: a wedged paradigm in great tightness", Triton Station blog, 30 April 2017, http://tritonstation.wordpress.com/2017/04/30/degenerating-problemshift-a-wedged-paradigm-in-great-tightness/]
“Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming”
Learned Hand (1872–1961) American legal scholar, Court of Appeals judge
"The Preservation of Personality" (2 June 1927).
Extra-judicial writings
Context: Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers.