Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Tim Ferriss

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

Rumi

The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one.

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.

Susan B. Anthony

Nothing is hopeless that is right.

Studs Terkel

I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.

Storm Jameson

Hope is a talent like any other.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Samuel Johnson

In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.

Samuel Johnson

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.

Samuel Johnson

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

Samuel Johnson

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

Samuel Johnson

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

Samuel Johnson

When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.

Samuel Johnson

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

Robert Louis Stevenson

With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night That somehow the right is the right And the smooth shall bloom from the rough: Lord, if that were enough?

Vaclav Havel

A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.

Vaclav Havel

I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me.

Vaclav Havel

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 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

The hope of the world lies in the rehabilitation of the living human being, not just the body but also the soul.

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.

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.