Hope Quotes - Page 21

• Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breaths away.

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

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• The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Trust, Confidence

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “For a Future to Be Possible: Easyread Edition”, p.39, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence?

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Faith, Wisdom, Silence

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• The humans have a curious force they call ambition. It drives them, and, through them, it drives us. This force which keeps them active, we lack. Perhaps, in time, we machines will acquire it.

  John Wyndham

  Ambition, Machines, Curious

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• For the essence of science, I would suggest, is simply the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

  Barrington Moore, Jr.

  Believe, Science, Essence

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• Fear and hope are alike underneath.

  Richard Ford

  Fear

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• Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.

  Robert Breault

  Happiness, Success, Motivation

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• Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.

  Aaron Carter

  Music, Spirit, Fierce

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In all places where there is a Summer and a Winter, and where your Gardens of pleasure are sometimes clothed with their verdant garments, and bespangled with variety of Flowers, and at other times wholly dismantled of all these; here to recompense the loss of past pleasures, and to buoy up their hopes of another Spring, many have placed in their Gardens, Statues, and Figures of several Animals, and great variety of other curious pieces of Workmanship, that their walks might be pleasant at any time in those places of never dying pleasures.

  John Worlidge

  Summer, Art, Spring

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• America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of the exploration for the next fifty years was done in the hope of getting through or around it. America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Men, Discovery, Years

  The Oxford History of the American People ch. 2 (1965)

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• We would liken music to Aladdin's lamp — worthless in itself, not so for the spirits which obey its call. We love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings, it can summon with a touch.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Love, Memories, Feelings

  "Romance and Reality".

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• So to be sick unto death is, not to be able to die-yet not as though there were hope of life; no, the hopelessness in this case is that even the last hope, death, is not available. When death is the greatest danger, one hopes for life; but when one becomes acquainted with an even more dreadful danger, one hopes for death. So when the danger is so great that death has become one's hope, despair is the disconsolateness of not being able to die.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Sick, Despair

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “Sickness Unto Death”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, People, History

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Years, Politics, Vote

  "O'Connor to Retire from Supreme Court". "Live From" with Kyra Phillips, www.cnn.com. July 1, 2005.

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• There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Men, Have A Great Day, World

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• When Things Fall Apart” and I quote “Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it.  Nothing ever sums itself up in the way that we like to dream about. The off-center, in-between state is an ideal situation, a situation in which we don't get caught and we can open our hearts and minds beyond limit. It's a very tender, nonaggressive, open-ended state of affairs.

  Pema Chodron

  Dream, Teacher, Fall

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• Iconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative colour and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.

  Angela Carter

  Eye, Men, Blood

  Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Life, Preparation, Way

  Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.186, Cambridge University Press

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• Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Heart, Ambition, Desire

  URSULA K. LE GUIN (1976). “THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS”

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• No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.

  John Ruskin

  Temptation, Determined, Honestly

  John Ruskin (1908). “Complete Works of John Ruskin”

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• Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied.

  James Agee

  Children, Years, Bored

  James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.273, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God gives us hopes and dreams for certain things to happen in our lives, but He doesn't always allow us to see the exact timing of His plan.

  Joyce Meyer

  Dream, Giving, Timing

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• Everyday is another chance to get things right.

  Lauryn Hill

  Everyday, Fresh Start, Another Chance

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• It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.

  John Guare

  Yesterday, Littles, Tomorrow

  John Guare (1978). “Landscape of the Body”, Grove/Atlantic

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• We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.

  Cassandra Clare

  Memories, Loss, Long

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Heavenly Fire”, p.724, Simon and Schuster

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