Quotes About Hope

The church is the great lost and found department.

Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.

Another student, Lorie Tarshis, wrote: 'And finally what Keynes supplied was hope: hope that prosperity could be restored and maintained without the support of prison camps, executions and bestial interrogations….

There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.

Yet leaving here a name, I trust,That will not perish in the dust.

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

Like all shopkeepers, they are deep-down optimists. They have to be, because every morning they unlock the doors to their stores, turn on the lights, prepare for the day, and wait for people to walk in and hand them money.

If you don't leave room for the unexpected to express itself in your life, you close yourself off from the possibility of miracles.

I know it's hard. It's one of the hardest things there is, but you know we can't make people love us. It happens, or it doesn't.

The Golden Light that will be diffused throughout all the happy world from the rays of the risen sun of Socialism.

As it is for us, 1 January was a day of good wishes and new year's gifts, when only words of good omen had to be spoken

Then there are panacea programs and actions: bring back national service and the juvenile problem will end, stop advertising on TV, ban internet porn, revive grammar schools, ditch the EU. People pin their hopes on a single action curing a host of interconnected problems. But they forget the world is how it is for very good reason.

Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.

Though everything will seem dark to you now, remember that even behind the darkest clouds of night there shines the moon of dawn.

some time. Been prayin' for 'im, though. You

Unsavoury as it is below, there is cheerfulness, and comfort, and hard, honest work above. ("In The Court Of The Dragon")

Like swimming squirrels, you navigate with the help of Heaven and a stiff breeze, but you never land where you hope to—do you?

All that is fair shall pass away; all that I love, all that I fear for—these shall the doctor take away, lifting them from my memory on the point of a steel blade. What has he to give in return? A hell of vapour, distorting sight; a hell of sound, drowning the soul.

The main fact of life for me is love or its absence. Whether life is worth living depends for me on whether there is love in life. Without a sense of it, or even the memory…of it, I think I would lose heart completely. (p. vii)

God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt.

Death indeed will terminate my story, but it will not conclude it; for it will make all my hopes into might-have-beens and my fears into never-minds, and so make absurd the anticipatory coherences by which I have lived. if I am to have a conclusion, it will have to be a resurection.

It's easy to cry that you're beaten — and die; It's easy to crawfish and crawl; But to fight and to fight when hope's out of sight — Why, that's the best game of them all! And though you come out of each gruelling bout, All broken and beaten and scarred, Just have one more try — it's dead easy to die, It's the keeping-on-living that's hard.

That lovely things exist is a lovely thought.