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• Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.

  Randeep Hooda

  Romantic, Different, Juncture

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• A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny. A reformation means that masses of our people have reached the point of disillusionment with past ways and values. They don't know what will work but they do know that the prevailing system is self-defeating, frustrating, and hopeless. They won't act for change but won't strongly oppose those who do. The time is then ripe for revolution

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Past, Self

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• I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.

  Michael Pollan

  Land, Development, Way

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• I do not think we will see a stateless society in my lifetime. But I am sure we will not see a state that conforms to the minarchists' ideals. The closer we get, the better, but I see no reason not to aspire for the best government as Thoreau imagined it: none at all. It's certainly more consistently idealistic than what the minarchists imagine, and yet it's at least possible, whereas the existence of a lasting, minimal state is a hopeless fantasy.

  Anthony Gregory

  Thinking, Government, Anarchy

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• One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well... just realistic.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Hopeless Romantic, Other Half, Realistic

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• Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside, you say, "Why are they still married?"

  Eric Braeden

  Looks, Married, Situation

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

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• The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Humorous, Uncouth

  V.S. Pritchett (2011). “The Other Side of a Frontier”, p.361, A&C Black

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• Only for the sake of the hopeless ones have we been given hope.

  Walter Benjamin

  Sake, Given

  "Illuminations".

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• Taureans are stubborn as hell. They never want to tell you what sign they are.... But underneath that tough Taurus hide beats the heart of a hopeless romantic.

  Armistead Maupin

  Heart, Hopeless Romantic, Stubborn

  Armistead Maupin (2011). “Tales of the City: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Want Something, Minorities

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot be changed. For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one's predicament into a human achievement. When we are no longer able to change a situation-just think of an incurable disease such as inoperable cancer-we are challenged to change ourselves.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Cancer, Fate, Thinking

  Viktor E. Frankl (2017). “Man's Search for Meaning: A Young Adult Edition”, p.111, Beacon Press

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• Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

  Abraham Cowley

  Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley”, p.50

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• Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now hope-full, but it did not happen overnight. The last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, is to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Mom, Attitude, Parent

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• There was no hope for any kind of big opportunity. I'm not saying it was hopeless. The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was never any notion that you could make a living out of art. On the rare occasions you had a gallery show, and sold a little work, well, that was just gravy.

  Edward Ruscha

  Art, Opportunity, Rare Occasion

  "Ed Ruscha: 'There's room for saying things in bright shiny colours'". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. Seotember 11, 2010.

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• Broken, hopeless, headed nowhere
  Only motivation for what the dealer's supplying
  That rush, that drug, that dope
  Those pills, that crumb, that roach
  Thinkin' I would never do that, not that drug
  and growing up nobody ever does
  Until your stuck, lookin' in the mirror like I can't believe what I've become
  Swore I was goin' to be someone
  And growing up everyone always does
  We sell our dreams and our potential
  To escape through that buzz

  Macklemore

  Dream, Growing Up, Motivation

  Song: Otherside

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• Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that anger is hopeless, fear is pointless and desire all a delusion. He whose heart is fickle is not his own master, has thrown away his shield, deserted his post, and he forges the links of the chain that holds him.

  Boethius

  Heart, Men, Tyrants

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• The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mediocrity, Doom, Imitator

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.72, Penguin

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• I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.

  Henry George

  Home, School, Thinking

  "Beyond the Looking Glass". Book by Colin Gordon (p. 29), 1982.

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• Hopeless causes are the only ones worth fighting for. The fight for the taxpayer is the most hopeless of them all.

  Larry Niven

  Fighting, Causes, Taxpayers

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• Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest:
  Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers:
  Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest,
  And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Love, Lying, Memorable

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.499, Oxford University Press

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• Very seldom will a person give up on himself. He continues to have hope because he knows he has the potential for change. He tries again - not just to exist, but to bring about those changes in himself that will make life worth living. Yet people are very quick to give up on friends, and especially on their spouses, to declare them hopeless, and to either walk away or do nothing more than resign themselves to a bad situation.

  Hugh Prather

  Change, Giving Up, People

  Hugh Prather (1977). “Notes on Love and Courage”, Main Street Books

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• Bible prophecy helps us to better understand the future and realize the urgent need to spread the Gospel. It motivates us to personal purity and gives us hope in a hopeless age.

  Tim LaHaye

  Christian, Giving, Age

  Tim F. LaHaye, Thomas Ice (2002). “Charting the End Times Prophecy Study Guide”, p.17, Harvest House Publishers

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• The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell because the Japanese had lost control of their own air.

  Henry H. Arnold

  Air, Bombs, Firsts

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• Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.

  C. S. Lewis

  Suffering, Tribulation, Cease

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are no hopeless positions; there are only inferior positions that can be saved. There are no drawn positions; there are only equal ones in which you can play for a win. But at the same time, don't forget that there is no such thing as a won position in which it is impossible to lose.

  Grigory Sanakoev

  Winning, Play, Chess

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