I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
This is the language of the world before—a world of chaos and confusion and happiness and despair—before the blitz turned streets to… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Je pensais de meme que notre jeunesse etait finie et le bonheur manqué. I thought too that our youth was over and… — Alain-Fournier Copy Share Image
One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no… — David Ignatow Copy Share Image
My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Faking a smile can only hurt yourself, with so much problem to fear and so much pain to bear. At the end,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If no heart beat so badly, and soda are not Klis life every moment of every accident are ready! Not found except… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Chimpanzees are incredibly intelligent. They can learn more than 400 signs of American Sign Language. They have memories for spatial distribution, like… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I don't know if there is an existing model that anyone can hold on to right now. Every [piece of] advice about… — Olof Arnalds Copy Share Image
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I am a free man―and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“And leaning on the windowsill to enjoy the day, gazing at the variegated mass of the whole city, just one thought fills… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
As a teenager, my father took me to the shows at the Architectural Association and to places like Milton Keynes back when… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I look at American Christianity and I'm almost in despair. I don't want to be identified with it. The Christian vote in… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The most supreme beauty is that of the feminine; the source of all creativity. Even in my greatest despair, that realization alone… — Joseph Curiale Copy Share Image
Just believing, just having a molecule of faith--that simple step, when focused on the Lord Jesus Christ, has ever been and always… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“It is our duty to seek to acquire the art of being cheerful. It will hold in check the demons of despair… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods. — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
It is necessary above all that the citizens, who have rallied round the constitution, should be assured that the rights it guarantees… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
“Despite her ability to enjoy most of their days, sometimes her despair was so great that, in a melancholy moment when she'd… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Only hope can give rise to the emotion we call despair. But it is nearly impossible for a man to try to… — Samurai Champloo Copy Share Image
After watching my poor mother being sometimes neglected by my father, it was almost tattooed on my brain that I would never… — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
“Among our egocentric sad-sacks, despair is as addictive as heroin and more popular than sex, for the single reason that when one… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I do not mean the difficulty. I do not mean the sex. I mean there are too many failings. Not enough hope.… — Nina LaCour Copy Share Image
The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair,… — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
My brother Steve was always considered the naughty one but I used to drive my parents to despair because I had no… — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image
Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The price that has to be paid for finding truly personal life is a very high one. It is a price in… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
“Bosch had never liked Las Vegas, though he came often on cases. It shared a kinship with Los Angeles; both were places… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word; and in… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image