Quotes About Hope

almost grateful to leave Galen's nice little apartment—which still held hope like tattered party banners—for Tory's, which was a testament to when hope died, violently and by its own hand.

It was a random chance meeting of one particular sperm from a crowd and one particular egg from whichever ones popped out of the party room to look for adventure. It was hope that things would develop to the point where there was a real human being in there, and not just a collection of cells, and some more hope that the whole thing would coalesce and cook until done, and pop out pissed off and viable and ready to keep growing.

I'm still waiting for the rain to fall, pouring life down on me

Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart; The end lost in dream, They float past our view, We only watch their glad, early start. Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose; Their widening scope, Their distant employ, We never shall know. And the stream as it flows Sweeps them away, Each one is gone Ever beyond into infinite ways. We alone stay While years hurry on, The flower fared forth, though its fragrance still stays.

Even Pain pricks to livelier living.

the street that depends on the crumbs from the criminals' table that stole his wealth to survive or the officer whose life and family are constantly on edge? They will just have to keep fighting crime and hope that someday people would be afraid to commit crimes, and people would be brave enough to stand up against corruption.

Love changes course and flies away sometimes, that was all.

Shadow vaulted from the car, and cleared the sprawled figure with one joyous leap. He found September's scent, and hop-scotched and bulldozed through snow so deep it scraped his belly. But the bloody paw prints left in his wake spelled a message of fear, hope, and determination that only good-dogs could read.

Steven's gone," April cried. "My baby's out in the storm, him and the dog are both gone!

God doesn't say, "Don't worry too much" or "Worry only about what really matters." He says, "Do not worry.

Through the years, I've never met an emotionally mature man or woman of God who has not traveled through a period of great suffering. With God as our touchstone, suffering builds hope and humility. I've learned that each human being must sooner or later decide if they want to be cool or deep. I'm putting my money on deep.4

Well, the heart always holds out hope that the mind knows may not likely be met.

That night they sat up well past dark around the dim flame of a single gas lamp, knowing, I suppose, that going to bed would be an admission that there was no ordinary, everyday explanation for my disappearance, and that when they awoke in the morning, they would have passed into some new era in their lives — the era that began with the unexplained loss of one of their own, and whatever that might mean next for them.

Males approach with caution, first assessing whether the female has had anything to eat lately. If she looks well fed, the male has some hope of getting through the ordeal alive.

Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. Isn't that true?

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate.

Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. Isn't that true?

Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.

We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan

And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose

But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei

Everyone knows that a man can always marry even if he reaches 102, is penniless, and has all his faculties gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him. (from the Complete Book of Etiquette, 1952)

I lost twins at 14 weeks, and I had to have an D and C on my birthday.