Famous Quotes

The greatest adventure is to have no fear for the blaze that lies ahead.

~ Robert M. Drake

It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

A winner is not someone who wins. It's someone who tries and isn't afraid to lose.

~ Nusrat Sultana

We’re only instruments of love, flowing through heaps of pain hoping one day we’d hatch a passion of our own.

~ Robert M. Drake

Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night, I can see paradise by the dashboard light.

~ Meat Loaf

I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley.

~ Criss Jami

I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now to the catharsis of knowledge and conviction, is for me--and I think for all of us--not only our own hope, but America's everlasting, living dream.

~ Thomas Wolfe

To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

~ John F. Kennedy

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

~ Lucy Larcom

So this is my cue of where to leave you. Now it's your story to retell and pass on. Because an idea is only relevant if it's being thought upon. So remember, never surrender.'Cause the unrelenting constancy of love and hope will rescue and restore from any scope.

~ Thomas Dutton

One often has to do what they have to do in order to do what they want to do, however if you only do what you want to do then you will never do what you have to do!

~ C. Moorer

this sounds a little simple, but I think if we didnt know illness we wouldnt really feel the exhiliration of good health. and if we never cried, we wouldnt be able to recognize joy. in a way, the good only gains value when it is contrasted with the bad

~ Priscilla Warner

A lesson for all of us is that for every loss, there is victory, for every sadness, there is joy, and when you think you’ve lost everything, there is hope.

~ Geraldine Solon

What is false about hope?

~ Mitch Albom

So dry your tears. Fortune has not yet turned her hatred against all your blessings. The storm has not yet broken upon you with too much violence. Your anchors are holding firm and they permit you both comfort in the present, and hope in the future.

~ Boethius

One always has hope for human nature

~ Agatha Christie

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

~ Aberjhani

You were standing in the wake of devastation And you were waiting on the edge of the unknown And with the cataclysm raining down Insides crying Save me now You were there, impossibly alone

~ Linkin Park

But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.

~ Howard Zinn

Mind led bodyto the edge of the precipice.They stared in desireat the naked abyss.If you love me, said mind,take that step into silence.If you love me, said body,turn and exist.

~ Anne Stevenson

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

~ A.r. Ammons

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.--as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

~ Abraham Lincoln

Below me Rontu was running along the cliffs barking at the screaming gulls. Pelicans were chattering as they finished the blue water. But suddenly I thought of Tutok, and the island seemed very quiet.

~ Scott O'dell

This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

~ Aberjhani

Miracles were just second chances if you really thought about it--second chances when all hope was lost.

~ Kaya Mclaren

Life must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future.

~ Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Despair is a free man—hope isa slave.

~ L.m. Montgomery

Destiny isn't something you make as you're told. By overcoming difficulties, life and this whole world can advance forward. That's what destiny is for. A world that has lost the power to advance forward, will be destroyed - Aladdin

~ Shinobu Ohtaka

With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.

~ Roman Payne

Tomorrow, you promise yourself, things will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today. And you disappoint yourself again and again.

~ James T. Mccay

When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture.

~ Bell Hooks

Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better.

~ Dean Koontz

Deep down under where his heart resided, strangled up in thorny vines of guilt, anger, fear and longing, there lay something deeper in him, something that he couldn’t see but she could.

~ Carol Oates

Remember this, - where there is life there is hope. You're alive. Embrace this, because YOU CAN DO ANYTHING while there is breath in your body.

~ Lola Jaye

Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.

~ Gene Wolfe

That was how it always was with Colleen: No matter how sad she felt, there was always this little bit of hope - like a speck of glitter caught in your eyelash - that never went away, no matter what.

~ Lauren Tarshis

When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.

~ Christopher Bigsby

Silent. So it should be. You have no place in this world, Luthiel. And there is no other.' Zalos reached out and lifted a few strands of her hair. 'Bright songs and the magic of hope are but a dangerous illusion. The fake comfort of witches charms.

~ Robert Fanney

I remembered back to leo's burial and holding your hand. I was eleven and you were six, your hand soft and small in mine. As the vicar said 'in sure and certain hope of the resurrection of eternal life' you turned to me, 'I don't want sure and certain hope I want sure and certain Bee.

~ Rosamund Lupton

Do you feel cold and lost in desperation? You build up hope, but failure’s all you’ve known Remember all the sadness and frustration And let it go. Let it go

~ Linkin Park