Quotes About Hopes

I'm just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking.

He never even thought of tenderness and emotion; his considerations about Durham remained cold. Durham didn't dislike him, he was sure. That was all he wanted. One thing at a time. He didn't so much as have hopes, for hope distracts, and he had a great deal to see to.

You...you've been here quite a long time, haven't you?" What? Oh...yes. Ever since I married What's-her-name. Uh, Martha. Even before that. Forever. Dashed hopes, and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested. How do you like that for a declension, young man?

I hope your dreams take you to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known.

An anniversary is a time to celebrate the joys of today, the memories of yesterday, and the hopes of tomorrow.

His humiliating double defeat at sea not only signaled the ruin of his hopes to eliminate Sextus Pompeius

People like me on the centre-left of politics have a fight on our hands. Our job is to appeal to people's hopes and aspirations by providing real answers to the challenges facing our country.

Once established with Great Britain, it would not be difficult, with moderation and prudence, to establish permanent peace with the rest of the world, when our most sanguine hopes of prosperity may be realized.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

My dreams are all follies.

Nothing is more interesting than repressed emotion. The appearance of sardonic coldness and stoicism which has deceived you is but a hollow mockery; beneath it I secrete a maelstrom of impassioned feeling and a mausoleum of blighted hopes.

Malign? I praise him. Death and deceit are our only hopes now. I just do not fool myself about Thufir's methods.

I'm from Paris, Texas, okay! I remember looking up and just dreaming to one day make it on an airplane.

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

I dreamed instead of did. I wished and hoped instead of tried.

He was, and always had been, the repository of more fears than hopes.

My mother could sense that the women of these families also had unspeakable tragedies they had left behind in China and hopes they couldn't begin to express in their fragile English.

I glance into the faces of all these people out for a Sunday stroll, but I'm not seeing eyes and noses and mouths. I'm seeing stories. Every person has a story. All the hopes and dreams. And fears. And secrets. In every face.

Do not disturb your mind," said Imlac, "with other hopes or fears than reason may suggest; if you are pleased with the prognostics of good, you will be terrified likewise with tokens of evil, and your whole life will be a prey to superstition.

I have lived to a great age: Yet to look backward to the time of my youth, when I was not a stranger to the hopes and fears that now agitate you, what a short space does it seem to be!

What was the matter that pureness of feeling couldn't be kept up? I see I met those writers in the big book of utopias at a peculiar time. In those utopias, set up by hopes and art, how could you overlook the part of nature or be sure you could keep the feelings up?

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

Now everybody has some secret goals in life.

Everything we do in life, we do with certain expectations.