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Quotes About Hope

It isn't over yet, it's just begun.
~ Richard Siken
You had expected something else, anything else
~ Richard Siken
He was not dead yet, not exactly— parts of him were dead already, certainly other parts were still only waiting for something to happen, something grand
~ Richard Siken
There is no danger. It is not getting dark , we want to say.
~ Richard Siken
I still do not have these luxuries.
~ Richard Siken
You just wanted to prove there was one safe place, just one safe place where you could love him. You have not found that place yet. You have not made that place yet. You are here. You are here. You're still right here.
~ Richard Siken
I want what everyone wants.
~ Richard Siken
There should be just one safe place in the world, I mean this world. People get hurt here.
~ Richard Siken
The fear: that nothing survives. The greater fear: that something does.
~ Richard Siken
The lawn drowned, the sky on fire, the gold light falling backwards through the glass of every room. I'll give you my heart to make a place for it to happen, evidence of a love that transcends hunger. Is that too much to expect? That I would name the stars for you? That I would take you there?
~ Richard Siken
These are the dreams we should be having.
~ Richard Siken
Together we trace out the/trail away from doom. There isn't hope, there is a trail.
~ Richard Siken
Look back on the good, look forward to the future.
~ Richard Skala
Some day this war is going to end...
~ Richard Stanley
The bad news is that you're in free fall and there's nothing to hold on to. The good news is that there's no ground to hit.
~ Richard Sylvester
you would be surprised how many people seriously limit their dreams. They're your dreams for heaven's sake. There should be no limit to them. Plans have to be realistic; dreams don't.
~ Richard Templar
Everything we know, believe, want, fear, and hope for, our thinking tells us. It follows, then, that the quality of our thinking is the primary determinant of the quality of our lives.
~ Richard W. Paul
That great human brain is nature's most frightening product. But it is simultaneously nature's best, most hopeful gift. If we are cursed with a demonic male temperament and a Machiavellian capacity to express it, we are also blessed with an intelligence that can, through the acquisition of wisdom, draw us away from the 5-million-year stain of our ape past. Intelligence is something we are familiar with, an old book, and old friend.
~ Richard W. Wrangham
Sometimes when things get taken away from you it feels like there's a hole at your centre where you can feel the wind blow through, that's sure.
~ Richard Wagamese
Actions born of contemplation are wiser than those made in quiet desperation. If all that's true, and I feel it is, then I have grown some in these 61 years. I have learned and become a better person. And from that maybe it's the years ahead that will be the richest of my life. A quiet man moving forward, gladly beyond all expectation.
~ Richard Wagamese
Can you stand?" Waabooz asked. "Yes," Buffalo said. "Why?" "If you stand there calmly you won't sink any farther and we can work together to get you out of there." "Are you certain?" Buffalo asked. "I feel the bog pull at me even now." "I am not certain," Waabooz said. "But Trust does not require certainty.
~ Richard Wagamese
I had some once. They didn't pan out. I don't have them anymore.
~ Richard Wagamese
Beggary. It's not the sole
~ Richard Wagamese
Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.
~ Richard Wagner