Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Albert Camus

Where there is no hope, we must invent it.

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.

We have an opportunity to redeem ourselves. Hopefully we'll put a stop to this.

We haven't made a decision, and it's not going to be done (Tuesday). Pat is meeting with Gen. Rosa, then I will meet with Gen. Rosa (today), and hopefully by the end of the week we will have an answer.

Byron Leftwich

Those are things that scare us, but hopefully those things turn out well. You hope it's nothing major, but you never know.

Sonia Sotomayor

I hope that as the Senate and American people learn more about me, they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.

Unfortunately, there's not a lot on the horizon that offers us any hope of relief.

We'll miss him, no question. He's leaving the hospital in a much better place than when he came. We hope to keep the momentum going.

We'll know more (today). Hopefully it's just a sprain that he can walk off.

You know who won if you want to know who won. But what you don't know is how they got there. We are hopefully providing a much more in-depth way of watching the competition.

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.

Thomas Shadwell

Hope is a very thin diet.

Thomas S. Monson

Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier

Thomas Sowell

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.

Robert Kennedy

Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Robert H. Schuller

A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.

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.