Famous Quotes

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

~ Judy Collins

You can break a man with hope.

~ Kate Morgenroth

With all honesty, somewhere between the hello and the dreams I saw you in I fell in love.

~ Robert M. Drake

Now I'm making a decision. I choose life. I shall live because there are few people I want to stay with for the longest possible time and because I have duties to discharge. It is not my concern whether or not life has meaning. If I am unable to forgive, then I shall try to forget. I shall live by force and cunning.­

~ Tayeb Saleh

I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine.

~ Sharon Kay Penman

She wasn't broken. She was just bent, over the chance of being ignored by the one she loved.

~ Robert M. Drake

Tous mes anciens amours vont me revenir.'- All my old loves will be returned to me

~ Carolyn Turgeon

I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that’s why I write fiction, probaby. It’s my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r

~ John Green

A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?

~ Joyce Carol Oates

We are mosaics - pieces of light, love, history, stars -- glued together with magic and music and words.

~ Anita Krishan

A loss of any kind is horrible. Not because it takes away, but because it makes you believe- in newspapers, in tomatoes, in empty whiskey bottles.

~ Anosh Irani

hope could betray you—but if you had no hope, life could actuallysurprise you in the best of ways.

~ Amy Lane

We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct she has little chance of evolving another.

~ James E. Lovelock

Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?

~ Libba Bray

Grace will follow us even when we are going the wrong way

~ Ricky Maye

But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope,That one day we shall thank thee perfectlyFor pain and hope and all that led or droveUs back into the bosom of thy love.

~ George Macdonald

He never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning;but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope,as long as despair could be postponed.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss and abundance. The abundance that has no guilt. The loss that has no fix. The simple tiredness that is not weary. The hope not built on blindness.

~ Aimee Bender

Your mother sets you up blind dates? With guys like that? The corners of his mouth twitched. She doesn't like you very much, does she?

~ Kelley Armstrong

Above all shadows rides the Sunand Stars for ever dwell:I will not say the Day is done,nor bid the Stars farewell.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

~ Rick Yancey

Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

I know too well how dangerous hope can be, how it grows and sometimes dies, taking its host with it. It's more powerful than anything Dr.Fibs keeps in his labs, more precious than all the secrets inside Sublevel Two.

~ Ally Carter

IT IS BY CHOICE AND NOT BY CHANCES THAT WE CHANGE OUR CIRCUMSTANCES.

~ Nadia Sahari

The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that there's nothing much we can do about them. And we are wrong. Our task in the present...is to live as resurrection people in between Easter and the final day, with our Christian life, corporate and individual, in both worship and mission, as a sign of the first and a foretaste of the second.

~ N.t. Wright

I think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts. And then when it's gone, it's like there's nothing left of you at all . . . except what you can't be rid of.

~ Marilynne Robinson

I need you because I know I deserve you but let me fall in love with you one last time before I let go. So I can remember the beautiful imperfection that rattled my bones.

~ Robert M. Drake

HELP!”I race to the square, crossing it, looking all around, listening out-..It’s empty.Viola’s breathing heavy in my arms .And Haven is empty.I reach the middle of the square.I don’t see nor hear a soul.I spin around again.“HELP!” I cry.But there’s no one.Haven’s completely empty.There ain’t hope here after all.

~ Patrick Ness

You are only a prisoner when you surrender.

~ Tad Williams

How could I live above the water or breathe under it. How could I swim in darkness consumed in an ocean of you? Falling or flying towards you, losing or finding myself in you and beauty was never the word to catch all that you are. For now I know the means of the infinite and it all starts and ends with you.

~ Robert M. Drake

What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,' but a vague and fuzzy optimism that somehow things may work out in the end.

~ N.t. Wright

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.

~ Albert Camus

Faith, hope and charity go together. Hope is practised through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God's mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness. Faith tells us that God has given his Son for our sakes and gives us the victorious certainty that it is really true: God is love! It thus transforms our impatience and our doubts into the sure hope that God holds the world in his hands and that, as the dramatic imagery of the end of the Book of Revelation points out, in spite of all darkness he ultimately triumphs in glory. Faith, which sees the love of God revealed in the pierced heart of Jesus on the Cross, gives rise to love. Love is the light—and in the end, the only light—that can always illuminate a world grown dim and give us the courage needed to keep living and working. Love is possible, and we are able to practise it because we are created in the image of God. To experience love and in this way to cause the light of God to enter into the world—this is the invitation I would like to extend with the present Encyclical.

~ Pope Benedict Xvi

And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.

~ Kate Dicamillo

Suddenly I remembered that laugh, it told a different story, our story.

~ Robert M. Drake

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

~ Marian Wright Edelman

I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?

~ Betty Smith