We weren't allowing our hopes to become expectations. Expectations are tempting, pleasant, maybe necessary. They are scary too, once you have had… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“It’s just… life. And no matter who we are, we have to take the hand we’re dealt, crappy though it may be,… — Mia Sheridan Copy Share Image
“He [Stanley] had stated that he longed to do something wonderful for the African tribes along the Congo, and instead, as would… — Tim Jeal Copy Share Image
My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
“Great leaders are most wanted. They are most wanted for what they do with their gifts and talents. Their dreams are so… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“There is enough said. Trouble no quiet, kind heart; leave sunny imaginations hope. Let it be theirs to conceive the delight of… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I did not know what life was until I found you. The boy who came into my life as a child. The… — Tillie Cole Copy Share Image
“Not all boats which sail into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I had become wealthy as an art dealer, but my life was never rich until I began serving in a mission and… — Ron Hall Copy Share Image
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Your potentials should become blessings to the earth, giving hope to people and solving the problems that you were born to solve,… — CLEMENT OGEDEGBE Copy Share Image
A seed is really something spiritual as much as it is something material. It contains a life spark that allows the regenerative… — Gary Paul Nabhan Copy Share Image
“I will place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of Christ. If anything… — Robert Moffat Copy Share Image
“At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I don't want to live without the sparklers, the brightness. Without that feeling of lying flat on the ground, pressed down with… — Susannah M. Smith Copy Share Image
I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families--sometimes into no family at all. When… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I definitely hope to create, to tell some stories on larger canvases, which does mean making something that is narratively more broad.… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
The word 'eavesdropper' originally referred to people who, under the pretence of taking in some fresh air, would stand under the 'eavesdrip'… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given… — Bahman Ghobadi Copy Share Image
I who have gone the gamut from an almost angry rejection of my dark skin by some of my brainwashed brothers and… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, there was 'Superbad' and 'The Girl Next Door' and 'Wedding Crashers' and all these great movies.… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
I want to tell everyone that no matter what's keeping them from being their authentic self to hold on to the hope… — Josie Totah Copy Share Image
“Phaedra keeps saying she's being selfish. That she hates herself for it, but she does it anyway. She can't deny herself what… — Cora Carmack Copy Share Image
“Has the universe any unity of plan or purpose, or is it a fortuitous concourse of atoms? Is conciousness a permanent part… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The fact that there are only nine nuclear-armed nations today — and not 15, or 20, or 50 — represents the Cold… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where I am today is my starting point. Who I am today is my starting point. My failures and successes of the… — Taylor Stevens Copy Share Image
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I'm hoping you end up happily married to the man of your dreams and have a hoard of beautiful kids that'll keep… — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“As we grow our faith, we wait in silence. As we listen for His voice, we have hope that He will speak.… — Dana Arcuri Copy Share Image
“Hope is what fuels you, bur hope is also what discourages you. So you continue the day looking for hope but careful… — Brooke and Keith Desserich Copy Share Image
Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps. We have… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of… — William Hague Copy Share Image
We are slaves, all of us...Some are slaves to fear. Others are slaves to reason—or base desire. It is our lot to… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
You've got to be careful of guys trying to chop-block you. You know, running backs, the receivers. You've got to just hope… — Mario Williams Copy Share Image
“Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“If you did not live lovingly and love deeply, you would not feel the pain of separation. But neither would you feel… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
There is one final point I would like to make this week. As I said on the floor of the House during… — Jo Bonner Copy Share Image
“Have high hopes. There is nothing wrong with big wishes. Make a list and build your life around that list. Write down… — Sarah Voldeng Copy Share Image
![“He [Stanley] had stated that he longed to do something wonderful for the African tribes along the Congo, and instead, as would become all too apparent, had set them up for a terrible fate. In 1877 he came down the great river as the first European ever to do so, declaring his hope that the Congo…” quote by Tim Jeal](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/69e/tim-jeal-88932_africa_he-stanley-had-stated-that-he-longed-to_2152540.jpg)
