Hope - Quotes
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
The quality of one`s emotional life changes over the years [...], but the basic instincts and desires, greed and hope, seem to remain constant.
A real Directioner is, although he has not seen us not lose hope.
Decisions are the endless uncertainties of life that we`ll not know if they`re right until the very end, so do the best you can and hope its right.
The difference between past and future, between cause and effect, between memory and hope, between regret and intention... in the elementary laws that describe the mechanisms of the world, there is no such difference.
I never saw a purple cow,
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I`d rather see than be one!
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come
Whispering `It will be happier`.
I hope no one reading this book thinks that "The exception proves the rule" means that if you have an exception, it means the rule is true. That`s just bugnutty. I had it explained to me as "The exception tests the rule." Also not true. The exception does not test the rule - it disproves the rule.
One of the big reliefs for the atheist is not having to worry about what to hope, wish, and pray for. Did I want to pray for my mother`s suffering to end? Did I want to hope for her death? I didn`t have to worry about that. I could hope one day that she`d live longer so I could talk to her, and wish the next day that she would die and not have to suffer her paralysis and physical loss any longer. My wishing and hoping were inert; I could let them run wild. I could use them as pure solace.