False Hope Quotes - Page 3

• You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.

  Tony Kushner

  Thinking, Giving, Guilty

  Interview with Andrea Bernstein, www.motherjones.com. July/August 1995.

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• I was headed for the fantastic lights. No doubt about it. Could it be that I was being deceived? Not likely. I don't think I had enough imagination to be deceived; had no false hope, either. I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.

  Bob Dylan

  Destiny, Thinking, Light

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• And our conception that the way we can mitigate the fact that people don't have retirement savings can be more work, or working longer, or just sort of staying in the game for longer is really a false hope. And it's a false promise.

  Teresa Ghilarducci

  Retirement, People, Promise

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

  Barack Obama

  Truth, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.222, Canongate Books

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• I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it’s that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it’s going to work. It’s astonishing how many people remain shackled for years, decades even, in a protracted and mutual state of self-delusion and false hope when in fact they had their answer in those first two weeks.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Self, Years, Two

  "And the Mountains Echoed". Book by Khaled Hosseini, May 21, 2013.

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