Quotes About Hope

I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.

We can never tell what is in store for us.

Believe and you're halfway there.

All the lights couldn't put out the dark Runnin' through my heart

I had faith in Israel before it was established; I have faith in it now.

Nearly every crisis seems to be the worst one, but after it's over, it isn't so bad.

Odds were there'd never been a human being born who couldn't use a drink now and then.

Cade grayed out a few times. Next thing he knew, he was back at an aid station. "We'll fix you up, Captain," a doc said through a surgical mask. "You're gonna be just fine." "You tell him, Hawkeye," another doctor said. Cade grayed out again.

Jerry had trouble imagining himself in his thirties, much less his seventies. What would 2024 look like? The politics would have to be better than today's. They couldn't very well be any worse!

Permit me voyage, love, into your hands...

"For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured. At least by the person who's waiting.

I don't know how many good books I still have in me I hope there are another four or five.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.

In South Africa in the early 1990s, a joke was making the rounds: Given the country's daunting challenges, people had two options, one practical and the other miraculous. The practical option was for everyone to pray for a band of angels to come down from heaven and fix things. The miraculous option was for people to talk with one another until they could find a way forward.

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

Hope will never be silent.

I did my best, and God did the rest.

Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.

The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum.

The place where optimism flourishes the most is the lunatic asylum.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.