Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Spenser

Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?

Edmund Burke

The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.

Elie Wiesel

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

Elie Wiesel

For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference means solitude. Those who are indifferent do not see others. They feel nothing for others and are unconcerned with what might happen to them. They are surrounded by a great emptiness. Filled by it, in fact. They are devoid of all hope as well as imagination. In other words, devoid of any future.

Edward Gibbon

In old age the consolation of hope is reserved for the tenderness of parents, who commence a new life in their children, the faith of enthusiasts, who sing hallelujahs above the clouds; and the vanity of authors, who presume the immortality of their name and writings.

David Remnick

I actually have great hopes for the future.

Baroness Orczy

even the worst moments and the weariest journeys must come to an end ...

Arnold Bennett

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Edgar Guest

But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out.

Benjamin Franklin

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

Benjamin Franklin

Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.

Benjamin Franklin

Hope is an essential constituent of human life.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.

Avril Lavigne

I might look like a tough chick - and I am - but I`m also a hopeless romantic inside.

Arthur Golden

The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.

Baltasar Gracian

Hope is a great falsifier of truth.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping. We work for what we want. I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor, so we work to try and bring about the situation that is necessary for the country, and we are confident that we will get to the negotiation table at one time or another. This is the way all such situations pan out even with the most truculent dictator.

Diana Wynne Jones

Hope is the forward-looking part of memory.

Derrick Jensen

When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.

Derrick Jensen

Casey Maddox wrote that when philosophy dies, action begins. I would say in addition that when we stop hoping for external assistance, when we stop hoping that the awful situation we're in will somehow resolve itself, when we stop hoping the situation will somehow not get worse, then we are finally free - truly free - to honestly start working to thoroughly resolve it. I would say when hope dies, action begins.

Demetri Martin

In retrospect, everything is finite, but prospectively, there are infinite possibilities. I guess that's what makes life hopeful.

Daniel Handler

To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.

Daniel Handler

Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.

Clarice Lispector

I, who called love my hope for love.

Ben Stein

It's a lot better to hope than not to.

Bayard Taylor

Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future...

Billy Donovan

There is a point where somebody's going to do something and there's going to be a major problem. I hope it doesn't happen.

George H. W. Bush

There is a place in the party for a lot of people from all walks of life and I hope they support my candidacy.

There are plans for a Wii port of 'Gray Matter,' and I hope it happens.

Jacques Lemaire

We're playing better than I thought we would. At a time there, it was looking bad. Now at least, you look at the team, hopefully that's how we're going to look from now until the end of the season. We know we can look like that. We can be that team. Just got to get it together.

Tracy Byrd

We really hope some of these people can come to the show. It's as much for them now as it is for anyone.

We really hoped we ... could keep (Mattox) from getting 30 or 40 on us, honestly, and maybe try to shut down some of their other players.