Hopeless Quotes - Page 26

• Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Patience, Hopelessness

  "Letting Go of Hope" by Margaret J. Wheatley, www.motherjones.com. November 28, 2005.

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• I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Grief, Hopelessness

  'Grief' (1844)

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• The doctrine of grace and redemption keeps us from seeing any person or situation as hopeless.

  Timothy Keller

  Grace, Doctrine, Redemption

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• It was hard to remember in the heavy and sensual clarity of these mornings; I forgot whom I hated and who hated me. I wanted to break out crying from stabs of hopeless joy, or intolerable promise, or because these mornings were too full of beauty for me, because I knew of too much hate to be contained in a world like this.

  John Knowles

  Morning, Hate, Joy

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• Humans have various ways of coping with extended stress, and one is the anticipation of a better time. Here, as with retribution, there is often a kind of symmetry: the more intense the stress and the more hopeless the situation, the more fabulous the coming times that are anticipated.

  Robert Wright

  Stress, Way, Fabulous

  Robert Wright (2010). “The Evolution Of God: The origins of our beliefs”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• The words burned on her tongue, but Minerva couldn’t give them voice. What a hopeless coward she was. She could pound on his door at midnight and demand to be respected as an individual. She could travel across the country in hopes of being appreciated for her scholarly achievements. But she still lacked the courage to ask for the one thing she wanted most. To be loved, just for herself.

  Tessa Dare

  Country, Doors, Voice

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• A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.

  Ann Brashares

  Years, Long, Tangled

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.88, Random House

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• Competence means keeping your head in a crisis, sticking with a task even when it seems hopeless, and improvising good solutions to tough problems when every second counts. It encompasses ingenuity, determination and being prepared for anything.

  Chris Hadfield

  Determination, Mean, Tasks

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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• Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound.

  William Goldman

  Writing, Ideas, Dancing

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• Intention is for achievers. Hope is for the hopeless.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Intention, Achiever

  Twitter post from Oct 07, 2015

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• When you’re focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story you’re believing in the moment, then you are your own victim, and the situation appears to be hopeless.

  Byron Katie

  Believe, Attachment, Stories

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.15, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A completely indifferent attitude toward clothes in women seems to me to be an admission of inferiority, of perverseness, or of alack of realization of her place in the world as a woman. Or--what is even more hopeless and pathetic--it's an admission that she has given up, that she is beaten, and refuses longer to stand up to the world.

  Hortense Odlum

  Fashion, Attitude, Clothes

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• I never thought I'd get to see Rome," Hazel said. "When I was alive, I mean for the first time, Mussolini was in charge. We were at war." "Mussolini?" Leo frowned. "Wasn't he like BFF's with Hitler?" Hazel stared at him like he was an alien. "BFF's?" "Never mind." "I'd love to see the Trevi Fountain," she said. "There's a fountain on every block," Leo grumbled. "Or the Spanish Steps," Hazel said. "Why would you come to Italy to see Spanosh steps?" Leo asked. "That's like going to China for Mexican food, isn't it?" "You're hopeless," Hazel complained. "So I've been told.

  Rick Riordan

  Block, War, Mean

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• "What would you do with the lazy ones, who would not work?" "No one is lazy. They grow hopeless from the misery of their present existence, and give up. Under our order of things, every man would do the work he liked, and would have as much as his neighbor, so could not be unhappy and discouraged."

  Emma Goldman

  Giving Up, Men, Order

  "Emma Goldman: Made for America, 1890-1901".

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• I don't care if you say we can't be together. I don't care if you think I'm the most evil, unnatural creature walking on earth. You can think whatever you want, go whatever you want. I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Evil, Loving You

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• Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder if my apparently negligible voice might not embody the essence of thousands of voices, the longing for self expression of thousands of lives, the patience of millions of souls resigned like my own to their daily lot, their useless dreams, and their hopeless hopes.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Writing, Voice

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.321, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• ‎It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Giving, Black, Despair

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• Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.

  Jon Krakauer

  Reality, Hopeless Romantic, Publicity

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster”, p.71, Pan Macmillan

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• People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless.

  Danielle Steel

  People, Strange, Sometimes

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• I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people. I crazily see the way out of a terrible situation. I crazily try to be the diplomat. If there are two warring factions in my life, I want them to agree to disagree at the very least.

  Michael Stipe

  Song, Optimistic, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Asking journalists to denounce leaks because of their deleterious effects on the functioning of government is as hopeless as asking an airline to denounce jet fuel because of its impact on the environment.

  Benjamin Wittes

  Impact, Government, Asking

  "Why We Publish Leaks," Washington Post, 13 February 1998. The question is not whether the Post should "denounce" leaks-truly a red herring- but whether it will use leaks that put U.S. personnel in danger.

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• Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists on behaving like television. . . .

  Jeremy Bernstein

  Thinking, Television, Prime

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• I refuse to accept that Western civilization is like some hopeless old version of Microsoft DOS, doomed to freeze, then crash. I still cling to the hope that the United States is the Mac to Europe's PC, and that if one part of the West can successfully update and reboot itself, it's America.

  Niall Ferguson

  Civilization, America, Europe

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• Tanzania is standing by the people of Zimbabwe including President Mugabe... Mugabe is there, he is president, he has been elected. If Tanzania had simply said, stupid, you're hopeless, a murderer, a violator of basic human rights; does that remove Mugabe from office? It doesn't.

  Jakaya Kikwete

  Stupid, Zimbabwe, Rights

  Interview with Financial Times, April 10, 2007.

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• I'M HOPELESS, because I've lived long enough to expect things like this to continue to happen. I'm not surprised and at some point my little children are going to inherit the weight of being a minority and all that it entails.

  Benjamin Watson

  Children, Long, Racism

  Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.16, NavPress

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