Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
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He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful.
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope.
We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present.
So long as faith with freedom reigns
And loyal hope survives,
And gracious charity remains
To leaven lowly lives;
While there is one untrodden tract
For intellect or will,
And men are free to think and act,
Life is worth living still.
And loyal hope survives,
And gracious charity remains
To leaven lowly lives;
While there is one untrodden tract
For intellect or will,
And men are free to think and act,
Life is worth living still.
You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
Don't deny hope it's chance to work magic
The first thing a girl hopes for from the garden of love is at least one carat.
Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.
I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought.
The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.
Hope...is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.
A kiss To a young girl, faith to a married woman, hope to an old maid, charity.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now.
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.
I take as my guide the hope of a saint in crucial things, unity - in important things, diversity - in all things, generosity.
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.
I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished.
Fear less, hope more Whine less, breathe more
Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.
Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.
Hope is necessary in every condition.
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
He has no hope who never had a fear.
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.
The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.
Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
That ready wit, which you so partially allow me, ... may create many admirers; but, take my word for it, it makes few friends. It shines and dazzles like the noonday sun, but, like that, too, it is very apt to scorch, and therefore is always feared. The milder morning and evening light and heat of that planet soothe and calm our minds. Never seek for wit; if it present itself, well and good; but even then, let your judgement interpose, and take care that it be not at the expense of anybody.
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
A man can go on without wealth, and even without purpose, for a while. But he will not go on without hope.
I sure hope you're staying alive for the upcoming Dodgers series.
There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.
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.
No evil dooms us hopelessly, except the evil we love, and desire to continue in and make no effort to escape from.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Hope for miracles, but don't rely on one.
Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable.
Something unpredictable but in the end it's right, I hope you have the time of your life.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
Dear brightest star o'er Bethlehem, O let your precious light shine in with hope and peace toward men in every home tonight.
Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.
The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
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 human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Never lose hope.
Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.
I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope.
Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. . . . Peace comes through hope.