Hopeless Quotes - Page 9

• Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.

  Bob Black

  Sake, Leisure, Forget

  Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

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• ONCE remove the old arena of theological quarrels, and you will throw open the whole world to the most horrible, the most hopeless, the most endless, the most truly interminable quarrels; the untheological quarrels.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  World, Arena, Quarrels

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• Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Long, Childhood

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.265, Macmillan

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• One goes on writing partly because it is the only available way of earning a living. It is a hard way and highly competitive. My heart drops into my bowels when I enter a bookshop and see how fierce the competition is...There is also a privier reason for pushing on, and that is the hopeless hope that someday that intractable enemy language will yield to the struggle to control it... Mastery never comes, and one serves a lifelong apprenticeship. The writer cannot retire from the battle; he dies fighting.

  Anthony Burgess

  Struggle, Writing, Heart

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• My daughter is a practicing physician so believe me I get a lot of the frustration from her. You get it from patients. For me personally, when I ask my doctor to send me my record, what I get is a scanned PDF of his hard copy! This is not good. It would be hopeless to work with a million people if you had to do this on paper, and one of the reasons this is the right time for this is because of the existence of EHRs.

  Francis Collins

  Daughter, Believe, Frustration

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head. I think that's the dialectic we all need to be in.

  Bill Ayers

  Mother, Heart, Thinking

  "The Rumpus Long Interview with Bill Ayers". Interview with Scott Hutchins, therumpus.net. February 20, 2009.

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• The Church is the Body of Christ begotten, unified, and indwelt by the Spirit, but forgetting the Spirit, men wrangle over limbs, functions, and orders. The Christian religion is hopeless without the Holy Ghost.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Christian, Men, Order

  Samuel Chadwick (2007). “The Way to Pentecost”, CLC Publications

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• I am one who believes that with God nothing is hopeless - that all things are possible through prayer.

  Charles L. Allen

  Prayer, Believe, All Things

  Charles L. Allen (1958). “All Things Are Possible Through Prayer”

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• The problem of making artists talk about their work is that when they're making their work the left-brain is shut off. So if you talk to an artist about it, you're talking to someone who wasn't there. It's hopeless.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Artist, Talking, Brain

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I want language to help us live in a world of wonder/terror/change. I want it to be about "becoming" rather than "being." I think that being and nouns are part of our hopeless dream that time will stop and we will not die. but it's not that way. So, why not celebrate verbs and the beloved's metamorphosis into other people or creatures or places - the same spirit but moving through things, not static.

  Gregory Orr

  Dream, Moving, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The moment you start thinking it's hopeless, then it is. [But], if you think it's gonna get better, it really does. Life is a test.

  Mos Def

  Thinking, Get Better, Doe

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council (2003 Cover Story)". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. January 11, 2016.

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• Even as my family fell apart and things were at their most hopeless, my dad and I found a lot of happiness in the wilderness - sleeping on the cold gravel and killing as many things as we could get our hands on. Even as my mom got progressively more crazy, we found a happiness, in flashes.

  Leigh Newman

  Mom, Dad, Crazy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It’s scandalous when one thinks about the people who live in a world in which they need not be hungry, in which they need not die without medical care, in which they need not be illiterate, they need not feel hopeless and miserable so much of the time, and yet they are.

  Amartya Sen

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• On the methodological issue, I think that would be hopeless to try to adjudicate between my view and orthodoxy by appeal to phenomenological introspection. We need to know about brain mechanisms.

  David Papineau

  Thinking, Views, Issues

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• I'm hopeless - all I know is that time is going past so fast.

  Maggie Smith

  Past, Knows

  "Maggie Smith On The Pressures Of Acting: 'You Want So Much To Get It Right'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 23, 2016.

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• When I was a little younger, I really did love musical theatre in the same hopeless dorky way that she does. I was obsessed with Jesus Christ Superstar and I used to reenact it in my room when no one was home.

  Sarah Steele

  Jesus, Home, Musical

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.

  Frederick Buechner

  Thinking, Praying, Deals

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art.

  Eyvind Kang

  Art, Dark, Term

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Every day is Valentine's Day! I'm a hopeless romantic.

  Hector Elizondo

  Valentine, Hopeless Romantic, Valentine's Day

  "Valentine's Day - Hector Elizondo interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I just can't see myself with a man on the ropes and just to prove how bad I am - and I see in his eyes, his head, he's hopeless - and I'm just deliberately hitting. I don't do that.

  Muhammad Ali

  Eye, Men, Rope

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• Just when I get my church all sorted out, sheep from the goats, saved from the damned, hopeless from the hopeful, somebody makes a move, get out of focus, cuts loose, and I see why Jesus never wrote systematic theology. So you and I can give thanks that the locus of Christian thinking appears to be shifting from North America and northern Europe where people write rules and obey them, to places like Africa and Latin America where people still know how to dance.

  William Henry Willimon

  Christian, Jesus, Latin

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• The situation is hopeless, we must take the next step.

  Pablo Casals

  Next Steps, Situation, Next

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• ...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Philosophy, Positive Thinking, Positive Attitude

  "The Crack-Up" (1936)

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• All other areas of my life, I'm hopeless. I can't even be certain how to boil an egg.

  Ian Mckellen

  Eggs, Certain, Areas

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• Not all Americans are living the American dream by a long shot. Many can't even imagine it. There are impoverished Americans, the poor and the homeless, the hungry and the hopeless, many unable to read and write. There are Americans gone astray, the kids dragged down by drugs, the shattered families, the teenage mothers struggling to cope. Then there are Americans uneasy, troubled and bewildered by the dizzying pace of change.

  George H. W. Bush

  Dream, Mother, Teenage

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