Famous Quotes & Sayings

e. e. cummings

hopes dance best on bald men's hair

E. B. White

No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.

E. B. White

As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left us in a bad time.

Douglas Coupland

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.

Donald Trump

And they [illegal immigrants] will come back, but they are going to have to go out, and hopefully they get back.

Dwight L. Moody

Thanks be to God, there is hope to-day; this very hour you can choose Him and serve Him.

David Platt

The gospel confronts us with the hopelessness of our sinful condition. But we don't like what we see of ourselves in the gospel, so we shrink back from it.

Corita Kent

It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.

David Levithan

Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility.

Desmond Tutu

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Amy Tan

Hope is the adrenalin of the soul.

Amy Tan

With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.

Amiri Baraka

Hope is delicate suffering.

Anthony Bourdain

I'm certainly dismayed by what I'm seeing now. There's a lot of ugliness of a kind I've never seen in my lifetime, or heard in my lifetime. But, look, I'm a romantic. I'm hopeful.

Anne Graham Lotz

If God can bring blessing from the broken body of Jesus and glory from something that's obscene as the cross, He can bring blessing from my problems and my pain and my unanswered prayer.

Anne Carson

Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.

Anne Frank

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

Anne Sexton

There is hope. There is hope everywhere. Today God give milk and I have the pail.

Anne Sexton

When they turn the sun on again I'll plant children under it, I'll light up my soul with a match and let it sing....

Anne Sexton

I'll vacuum up my stale hair, I'll pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll write a poem called Yellow and put my lips down to drink it up....

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

Ambrose Bierce

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

Ambrose Bierce

Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

Ambrose Bierce

PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

Ambrose Bierce

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

Ambrose Bierce

OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.

Ambrose Bierce

Hope is an explorer who surveys the country ahead. That is why we know so much about the Hereafter and so little about the Heretofore.

Ambrose Bierce

PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.

Ambrose Bierce

USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion.

Alyssa Milano

For me, there is no hope without faith. Faith is a higher good. Faith in our divinity.

The contra-flow will work. It's not something that we would prefer to do. We would hope that traffic would keep moving normally, but if it does not, we're prepared to do it.

Will it come back the same? No. And hopefully that means it will come back better,