You will make mistakes, disappoint God and others, and have days when you wonder why God ever called you in the first… — Jeff Iorg Copy Share Image
If anybody understands God's order for his children, it's someone who has rescued an orphan from despair, for that is what God… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope.… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death,… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
“Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness,… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
My grief was a heavy, despairing sadness caused by parting from a companion of many years but, more important, it was a… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is war and the… — Martin Niemoller Copy Share Image
[Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
A smile flickered across Coral’s face. “Have you ever noticed that once you have had a taste of certain sweets—raspberry trifle is… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
“When I look at this world I feel a deep pain. A burden in my soul. This overwhelming sadness threatens to engulf… — David Holdsworth Copy Share Image
Have you ever longed for someone so much, so deeply that you thought you would die? That your heart would just stop… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
Adolescents swing from euphoric self-confidence and a kind of narcissistic strength in which they feel invulnerable and even immortal, to despair, self-emptiness,… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
No matter how ruined man and his world may seem to be, and no matter how terrible man's despair may become, as… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The instinct that drives compulsion is universal. It is an attempt to solve the problem of disconnection, alienation, tepid despair... the problem… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like despair. That’s… — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
“Call anguish--anguish, and despair--despair; write both down in strong characters with a resolute pen: you will the better pay your debt to… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“It seemed to Rosa Lublin that the whole peninsula of Florida was weighted down with regret. Everyone had left behind a real… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven,… — Ernest Llewellyn Woodward Copy Share Image
So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
No, my heart will not yet despair. Gandalf fell and has returned and is with us. We may stand, if only on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But I stayed up thinking about how I've been lying to him, no less than I lie to myself in my pre-sleep… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
Palestinian and Israeli leaders finally recover the Road Map to Peace, only to discover that, while they were looking for it, the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Well, here I am, just come home; a fellow gone to the bad; though I had the best intentions in the world… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
. . . maybe that's what life's all about: there's a lof of despair, but also the odd moments of beauty, where… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I'm the fussiest eater on earth; my husband despairs. I like chicken and pasta, and can't resist milk chocolate. I figure if… — Bonnie Langford Copy Share Image
As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised,… — Walter Keane Copy Share Image
“If i had not met a shadowsinger, I would not have known that it is the family you make, not the one… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
The day I will see only me in your eyes, that day I will believe love exist in this world and till… — Nidhi Saini Copy Share Image
Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“And the world suddenly appeared to me as such an awfully large place, with I so totally alone in it that I… — Joseph von Eichendorff Copy Share Image
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Meaning drives us from despair to wonder, from confusion to clarity, from hesitance to confidence. And the only place to find meaning… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
“shall sail the iron ship with warriors of bone, You shall find what you seek and make it your own, But despair… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image