Famous Quotes & Sayings

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Baruch Spinoza

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Diana Wynne Jones

Hope is the forward-looking part of memory.

Alexander Pope

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Alexander Pope

Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore; What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.

Alexander Pope

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope.

Dwight L. Moody

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

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....

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.

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.

T. S. Eliot

The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire.

T. S. Eliot

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

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 A. Heinlein

It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.

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.

Susan Sarandon

At a time when everything seems so out of control and the people you've elected are bogus and there's so much random violence and hatred, it fills you with such hope and admiration to even be part for a short time in a community where people have connected to strangers to try to put out a hand.

Storm Jameson

Hope is a talent like any other.

Stephen Spender

For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust

Stephen Sondheim

I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!

Sri Chinmoy

Hope knows no fear. Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss. Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise.

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.

Tim Ferriss

I've seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all.