Hopeless Quotes - Page 6

• Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Whole, Seems

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.166, Routledge

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• Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be .. but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means is surely as good as another, since the end obtained is always the same. In any case the exceptional, endlessly repeated, is no different than the banal; and unceasing recapitulation can add nothing, in the end, to the sum of experience. I am weary and hopeless three times the dupe. Why have you trained me in the shame of abominable sins?

  Remy de Gourmont

  Mean, Lust, Different

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• I'm a hopeless romantic, I say very loudly and proudly. I get a lot of stick for it.

  Alex Pettyfer

  Hopeless Romantic, Sticks

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• These early Saints were indeed homeless, but they were not hopeless. Their hearts were broken, but their spirits were strong. They had learned a profound and important lesson. They had learned that hope, with its attendant blessings of peace and joy, does not depend upon circumstance. They had discovered that the true source of hope is faith—faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and in His infinite Atonement, the one sure foundation upon which to build our lives.

  Wilford W. Andersen

  Strong, Jesus, Heart

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• Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Needs, Veils, Sun

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• None wise dares hopeless venture.

  Euripides

  Wise, Venture, Dare

  Helena, l.811 (translated by A S Way, 1959).

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• If you're going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.

  Ann Leckie

  Desperate, Should, Defiance

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• If God is not with us, we do not want to continue. If the Sermon on the Mount is simply impractical, our mission work is hopeless. We have no backup plan. We have nothing but Him.

  Heidi Baker

  Want, Missions, Backup

  Heidi Baker, Shara Pradhan (2008). “Compelled by Love”, p.159, Charisma Media

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• Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain this similarity of pattern in members of the same class, by utility or by the doctrine of final causes.

  Charles Darwin

  Class, Doctrine, Finals

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.364, Broadview Press

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• Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.

  John Forbes Nash

  Thinking, Rejection, Effort

  "John F. Nash Jr. - Biographical". "Les Prix Nobel" ("The Nobel Prizes 1994") edited by Tore Frängsmyr, Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. 1995.

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• We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not cynical, we were not bitter.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Our World, Cynical, Bitter

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• There is nothing so enervating and exhausting as this hopeless waiting. I dare say this is only a transition period. I will and shall have a victory some day. If the powers that be have shown me so little favor as to place me in this world and make me what I am, the result must be accordingly.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Waiting, Victory, Transition

  Henrik Ibsen (1905). “The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen”

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• Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.

  Ai Weiwei

  Self, Way Forward, Insulting

  "Truth to Power". Interview with Simon Kirby, Index on Censorship, www.indexoncensorship.org. May 2008.

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• Everything we're singing about is true, and even when you take away all the glitz, it's still true in the darkest, ugliest and most hopeless places.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Singing, Glitz, Stills

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• The bosses of the Democratic party and the bosses of the Republican party alike have a closer grip than ever before on the party machines in the States and in the Nation. This crooked control of both the old parties by the beneficiaries of political and business privilege renders it hopeless to expect any far-reaching and fundamental service from either.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Party, Boss, Political

  "Platform Insincerity". The Outlook Magazine, Vol. 101, No. 13, p. 660, July 27, 1912.

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• The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you're worrying about whether you're hopeful, or hopeless, or pessimistic, or optimistic, who cares? The main thing is that you're showing up, that you're here and that you're finding ever more capacity to love this world because it will not be healed without that. That was what is going to unleash our intelligence and our ingenuity and our solidarity for the healing of our world.

  Joanna Macy

  Healing, Optimistic, Our World

  "Joanna Macy: A Wild Love for the World". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. August 11, 2016.

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• Sometimes, in that darkness, there is a single act of love, some selfless gesture, an aspiration, and we see that it's not been all waste, all hopeless, and we can ... well ... go on.

  John L'Heureux

  Darkness, Selfless, Goes On

  John L'Heureux (2007). “The Shrine at Altamira”, p.54, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain the play-things of childhood.

  Samuel Johnson

  Spring, Winter, Play

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.88

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• Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he imagines that the attention of the world will be attracted; some quality, good or bad, which discriminates him from the common herd of mortals, and by which others may be persuaded to love, or compelled to fear him.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Men, Quality

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• You can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.

  Peter McWilliams

  Experts, Media Bias, Quotations

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• Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first, Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime, To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Strong, Fate, Past

  Ebenezer Elliott, Mark Storey (2008). “Selected Poetry of Ebenezer Elliott”, p.61, Associated University Presse

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• Non-churchgoer s tend to see Christians as takers rather than givers. When Christians sacrifice and give wildly to the poor, that is truly a light that glimmers. The Bible teaches that the church is to be that light, that sign of hope, in an increasingly dark and hopeless world.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Dark, Sacrifice

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• It is only my eye that has helped me. I am still hopeless with that thing called a scale ruler. I love color, but that comes very naturally to me. From the beginning, I never followed trends. If I was aware of them, I didn't care, for I believed as I do now, that rooms should be timeless and very personal. I don't set out to achieve a particular style. And I certainly don't have a 'look' - just a mishmash of everything that somehow, by instinct, usually turns out to be a warm imaginative, 'living room'.

  Sister Parish

  Eye, Color, Style

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• Always have the highest bar for yourself. Wake up everyday and no matter how crappy you feel, want to change something for the better. Do something that makes someone happy. Create something that inspires someone. Be someone's light when they are hopeless.

  Dave Grohl

  Make Someone Happy, Light, Inspire

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• Coming from New York, I know that if you go by a delicatessen, and you put a sweet cucumber in the vinegar barrel, the cucumber might say, "No, I want to retain my sweetness." But it's hopeless. The barrel will turn the sweet cucumber into a pickle. You can't be a sweet cucumber in a vinegar barrel.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Sweet, New York, Want

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