Quotes about hope
hopeful optimist
I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful. Studs Terkel
hope talent
Hope is a talent like any other. Storm Jameson
hope dust brightness
For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust Stephen Spender
hope
I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep! Stephen Sondheim
hope empty idealism-and-realism
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. Pearl S. Buck
hope taken people
When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter. Pearl S. Buck
hope having-hope
We must have hope or starve to death. Pearl S. Buck
hope peace freedom
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. Pearl S. Buck
hope peace bread
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. Pearl S. Buck
hope wisdom believe
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. Peter Ustinov
hope one-day fundamentals
We can drop the fundamental hope that there is a better "me" who one day will emerge. We can't just jump over ourselves as if we were not there. Pema Chodron
hopeful doe lessons
Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first! Piers Anthony
hope cutting roots
No hardy perennial has the enduring quality of hope. Cut it to the roots, stamp it underfoot, let frost and fire work their will, and still some valiant shoot will push, to grow again on such scanty fare as it can find. Only time and the cruel quicklime of fact can destroy that stubborn urgency. Rachel Field
hopeless
All this hoping for nothing-or someone-that's maybe hopeless Rachel Cohn
hope hands void
We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent; We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope. Rabindranath Tagore
hope paving-the-way favour
What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass... Queen Elizabeth II
hope blow men
To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine men. Ralph Waldo Emerson
hope strong eye
A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds. Ralph Waldo Emerson
hope hate rap
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship. Ralph Waldo Emerson
hopeful sides depressive
I go from being hugely hopeful and entertaining to... really not. I'm not manic depressive, but I can really go to the darker side. Selma Blair
hope healing dark
When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me. Sean O'Casey
hope inspiration may
After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true Leonard Nimoy
hopeful fundamentals improvement
A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness. Vaclav Havel
hopeful imagine strive
I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me. Vaclav Havel
hope heart thankful-to-god
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 hero feelings
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
hope lying soul
The hope of the world lies in the rehabilitation of the living human being, not just the body but also the soul. Vaclav Havel
hope hero giving
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. Vaclav Havel
hopeful pieces awful
But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece o time we call today. Suzanne Collins
hope men noble-man
Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death--what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well. Sophocles
hope men deception
To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires. Sophocles
hope simple night
"You need hedges.""Hedges," I said, bemused. "Yes, Edgar." He looked surprised and a little disappointed, as if I had failed to understand a very simple concept. "Hedges against the night." Stephen King
hope pain heart
When love leaves the world, all hearts are still. Tell them of my love and tell them of my pain and tell them of my hope, which still lives. For this is all I have and all I am and all I ask. Stephen King