My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
In the United States, associations are established to promote the public safety, commerce, industry, morality, and religion. There is no end which… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“The fundamental fact about all of us is that we’re alive for a while but will die before long. This fact is… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
There are times when you are in despair, because in order not to betray who you are, you don't compromise, you don't… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Is the sea drying up? It is going up into mist and coming down on us in this water spout, the rain.… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
Despite her cough, Rose was in unusually good spirits. That was irritating. If I’m to trade my life for Rose’s, I’d appreciate… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
“Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart; do not let compliments go to your head and… — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
There are few of us, if any, who don't walk the refiner's fire of adversity and despair, sometimes known to others but… — Richard C. Edgley Copy Share Image
“In late February 2024 I talk to a friend of mine, a Palestinian Canadian author whose debut novel, rejected by many publishers,… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington.… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“wrapped my heart in fury to keep the despair at bay as I knelt on the sodden grass of the riverbank to… — Lesley Livingston Copy Share Image
“One can always satisfy oneself, I suppose; it's other people one can't satisfy. One thinks one's way of life is sound and… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
Do not despair, thinking that you cannot change yourself after so many years. Simply enter into the presence of Jesus as you… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“I have no idea how I managed to pass as normal in school, except that other people are generally caught up in… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
But what man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
People are really in despair today in Greece. They are afraid of tomorrow. They suffer. We have 1.2 million people without jobs.… — Dora Bakoyannis Copy Share Image
Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
“Is not prayer the intensely personal struggle within each disciple, and among us collectively, to resist the despair and distractions that cause… — Ched Myers Copy Share Image
Don't envy those who make their wealth in an ungodly way. The wicked seem to prosper now and live without care but… — T. B. Joshua Copy Share Image
The world surely has not another place like Oxford; it is a despair to see such a place and ever to leave… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“In a nutshell, the Despair stage is not pretty. It is the stage where the survivor realizes careers have been lost because… — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
For every moment of triumph, there is an unequal and opposite feeling of despair. Take that iconic photograph of Muhammad Ali standing… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to… — William Blake Copy Share Image
You don't have to say anything. You don't have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I would not despair; I… — Gemma Galgani Copy Share Image
Despair kinda smells like burnt hair. Sounds great, but smells lousy. Now fear... fear you can taste! Let's see, fear kinda tastes… — Matt Wagner Copy Share Image
Strictures, reproaches, and intemperate speeches from the Senator of Louisiana are really the wailings of an apostle of despair; he has lost… — Huey Long Copy Share Image
We can choose to be grateful, no matter what. This type of gratitude transcends whatever is happening around us. It surpasses disappointment,… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Perhaps the Doors, Curtains, Surface Pictures, Panes of Glass, etc. are metaphors of despair, prompted by the dilemma that our sense of… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Growing up in Vancouver in the 1950s, I was often capricious and temperamental, quick to laugh, even quicker to feel despair, prone… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance… — Saint Bernard Copy Share Image
The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
