Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sid Caesar

A great NOW will be a great WAS! A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE!

Shel Silverstein

If you are a dreamer come in If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer If youre a pretender com sit by my fire For we have some flax golden tales to spin Come in! Come in!

Taylor Swift

I’m always going to be a hopeless romantic. Always.

Thomas Carlyle

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Thomas Carlyle

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Stephen King

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

Stephen Hawking

While there's life, there is hope.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.

Robert Bridges

I live in hope and that I think do all Who come into this world.

Tom Holt

There is that within a man that drives him ever onwards, just as the power of the seasons drives the roots of flowers into the hard earth; and so he decided, against his better judgment, to open his eyes and find out what was going to happen to him next.

Tom Stoppard

Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.

Victor Hugo

God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.

Victor Hugo

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

Robert Frost

What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

Robert Fulghum

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.

Thomas More

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

Vaclav Havel

A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.

Vaclav Havel

I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me.

Vaclav Havel

I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart. Hope is the feeling that life and work have a meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you. Life without hope is an empty, boring, and useless life. I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me. I am thankful to God for this gift. It is as big as life itself.

Vaclav Havel

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.

Vaclav Havel

The hope of the world lies in the rehabilitation of the living human being, not just the body but also the soul.

Vaclav Havel

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.

Suzanne Collins

But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece o time we call today.

Robert Burns

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.

Robert Browning

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

Robert Browning

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

T. S. Eliot

Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?

T. S. Eliot

Although I do not hope to turn again Although I do not hope Although I do not hope to turn

T. S. Eliot

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

T. S. Eliot

One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know what hope is, until you have lost it. You only know what it is not to hope: You do not know what it is to have hope taken from you Or to fling it away, to join the legion of the hopeless Unrecognized by other men, though sometimes by each other.