Quotes About Hope

But us, we got a job to do, and there's a thousand ways, and we don't know which one to take. And if I was to pray, it'd be for the folks that don't know which way to turn.

Don't roust your faith bird-high an' you won't do no crawlin' with the worms.

For if ever any man were deeply and unconsciously sure that his future would be no better than his past, he might deeply wish to cease to live.

There were people who gave everything they had to the war because it was the last war and by winning it we would remove war like a thorn from the flesh of the world and there wouldn't be any more such horrible nonsense.

Maybe you've tumbled a world for me. And I don't know what I can build in my world's place.

It seems to me that young people have lost their faith in America. Our ancestors had faith.

In the souls of people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

Everyone gets well if he waits around.

Ale já se takovejch moc pÄ›knejch vÄ›cí bojím.

There wasn't any limit, no boundary at all, to the future. And it would be so a man wouldn't have room to store his happiness.

What have I to fear but starvation? Kino asked.

In long-range planning for a trip, I think there is a private conviction that it won't happen.

It was Una," he said hoarsely. "He couldn't get over Una. He told me how a man, a real man, had no right to let sorrow destroy him. He told me again and again how I must believe that time would take care of it. He said it so often that I knew he was losing.

Then they asked, What'll we do? And the men replied, I don't know. But it was all right. The women knew it was all right, and the watching children knew it was all right. Women and children knew deep in themselves that no misfortune was too great to bear if their men were whole.

The people in flight from the terror behind—strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith is refired forever.

Al said, We'll burn right up if we got climbin' to do. Have to throw out some a' this stuff. Maybe, we shouldn' a brang that preacher. You'll be glad a that preacher 'fore we're through, said Ma. That preacher'll help us.

You got to have patience. Why, Tom—us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people—we go on.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy,growing heavy for the vintage.

Someday there'd be a way, maybe ice, maybe some other way, to get a peach like this here I got in my hand clear to Philadelphia.

Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.

George si alzò in piedi. «Ce la faremo,» disse. «Prenderemo quella casetta e andremo a viverci.» Tornò a sedersi. I tre stettero queti, tutti imbambolati nel portento della cosa, ciascuno lanciato nel futuro dove la cosa tanto bella si sarebbe avverata.

People moving [...] Movin' cause they got to [...] Movin' cause they want sompin better'n what they got. An' that's the on'y way they'll ever git it.

Onu bir kenara koyarken, anlad???m? söyledim yaln?zca. Ne kötüdür bilirim ama elimden bir ÅŸey gelmez. BaÅŸkas? da sana yard?m edemez. Yaln?zca geçecek diyebilirim ama sen buna inanamazs?n. Yolun aç?k olsun. Bu dönemde birbirimize tahammül edemesek de, sevgim seninle olsun.

And then I saw what I was to see so many times on the journey--a look of longing. Lord! I wish I could go.