Quotes About Hopes

No, I was an odder old fool, grafting pathetic hopes of affection onto the least likely recipient in the world.

Rarely will you meet anyone so jealous a a teacher. Year after year students tumble along like the waters of a river. They flow away, and only the teacher is left behind, like some deeply buried rock at the bottom of the current. Although he may tell others of his hopes, he doesn't dream of them himself. He thinks of himself as worthless and either falls into masochistic loneliness, or, failing that, ultimately becomes suspicious and pious, forever denouncing the eccentricities of others.

If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the hopes of men the world over.

All human behavior, all human motivations, all man's hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind's tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

The searing light of morning Asks unwelcome questions, Fragile hopes soon blistered by daylight.

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.

Joy, happiness, are hopes and our dreams.... A place of peace and harmony... that's the kind of land I invision.

Death is the final dance of dreams, desires, loves and hopes.

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Rightly understood, Christian theology has a pastoral dimension to its task. The agenda to be addressed by a well-formed theology is a broad one, but it certainly includes the deepest hopes and fears that arise out of the day-to-day concerns of the community of faith.

Behold me waiting—waiting for the knife.... The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform, The drunken dark, the little death-in-life.... [F]ace to face with chance, I shrink a little: My hopes are strong, my will is something weak. ...I am ready But, gentlemen my porters, life is brittle: You carry Cæsar and his fortunes—steady!

Prometheus: Yes, I stopped mortals from foreseeing their doom. Chorus: What cure did you discover for that sickness? Prometheus: I sowed in them blind hopes.

Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will.

Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.

A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic.

No one respects the First Amendment more than I do. People have a right to express their concerns and their hopes and dreams to their government.

When in place of love you have grieves. And in place of glory nonfulfillment of hopes you earn, know that it's a natural catastrophe preparing you for distinguished conditions." - Darmie Orem

A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.

Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children.

I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.