Quotes About Hopes

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes

Greater contentment is to be found in letting go of our hopes and fears than in any clinging. These reflections on the natural laws that affect us can inspire us to turn toward spiritual practice as a refuge.

My dreams are all follies.

I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country, and for this, I am eternally grateful.

Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.

I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

Making love, she'd always believed, was more than simply a pleasurable act between two people. It encompassed all that a couple was supposed to share: trust & commitment, hopes & dreams, a promise to make it through whatever the future might bring.

And in your smile, I will live forever

It seemed to her that she was reading the story of her own dreams, desires, and hopes. She sensed something immense, something calling behind the chaos of these primitive forms and structures of words.

Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.

Intimacy is when you're familiar with your emotions, then share your feelings, your fears, your shame, your hopes and joys with another person.

I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils. CHARLOTTE BRONTË, Jane Eyre

A choice is like a jigsaw puzzle, darling troll. Your worries are the corner pieces, and your hopes are the edge pieces, and you, Hawthorn, dearest of boys, are the middle pieces, all funny-shaped and stubborn. But the picture, the picture was there all along, just waiting for you to get on with it.

Risk literacy is the basic knowledge required to deal with a modern technological society. The breakneck speed of technological innovation will make risk literacy as indispensable in the twenty-first century as reading and writing were in previous centuries. Without it, you jeopardize your health and money, or may be manipulated into unrealistic fears and hopes.

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

We are the bones of this city, the heart, the womb. The hidden structure and architecture behind the beautiful facades. We are unseen yet leaned upon, vessels yet not empty, the home for our families. The hopes of our city are thrust upon us, and we will be punished if we fail.

Close friendships with girls come early in life. After thirty it becomes harder to make new friends —there are fewer hopes, dreams or anticipations to share.

Jobs that cannot be delivered must never be promised. It's unfair to raise people's hopes that way.

Man has less than he suspects of: Time, Friends, Hopes, Qualities.Proverb

Regret poisons your thoughts.Doubt poisons your dreams.Fear poisons your hopes.Insincerity poisons your deeds.

With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes.

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

Sleeping, we image what awake we wish; Dogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.*