Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vaclav Havel

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.

Suzanne Collins

But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece o time we call today.

Sophocles

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

To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.

Stephen King

"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

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

Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

Starhawk

Another world is possible!' ... Another world is also necessary, for this one is unjust, unsustainable, and unsafe. It's up to us to envision, fight for, and create that world, a world of freedom, real justice, balance, and shared abundance, a world woven in a new design.

Soren Kierkegaard

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.

Soren Kierkegaard

Hope is passion for what is possible.

Tanith Lee

Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

Stephen Hawking

While there's life, there is hope.

Robert Burns

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.

Robert Browning

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

Robert Browning

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

Ramon Magsaysay

Guns alone are not the answer. We must provide hope for young people for better housing, clothing, and food; and if we do, the radicals will wither away

Seamus Heaney

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Michael Pollan

I'm very hopeful that we'll see some change in our food system. I don't know how far we'll go, or how quickly we'll get there, but there is no question that a significant percentage of the American public is dissatisfied with the food system.

Sidney Poitier

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

Michael Moore

Hope for the best is what we do, right from the moment we're born.

John Milton

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

John Milton

Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest.

John Milton

Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.

John Milton

What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.

John Milton

So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.

John Milton

Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.

Norman Cousins

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.

Norman Cousins

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

Norman Cousins

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Miguel de Cervantes

With life many things are remedied.

Miguel de Cervantes

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

Theodore Roosevelt

We here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.