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
“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 caressed them, did them violence even, and shed tears of despair over his failures to make them either sufficiently beautiful or… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my… — Isaac Mayer Wise Copy Share Image
Our efforts have brought new hope to all mankind. We have beaten back despair and defeatism. We have saved a number of… — Harry S. Truman 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
Then I felt that every inflection of my voice, every word in my mouth, was a lie, a play whose sole purpose… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair: The roses fearfully on thorns did stand,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“He has been travelling blindly, whether forward he cannot say, without learning anything except that he has not yet learned anything, unless… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“And now, for something completely the same: Wasted time and wasted breath, 's what I'll make, until my death. Helping people 'd… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
The man who knows God but does not know his own misery, becomes proud. The man who knows his own misery but… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“And she would like to cry, but she is unable to; and she would like to disappear but she won't; and she… — Micheline Aharonian Marcom Copy Share Image
So to be sick unto death is, not to be able to die-yet not as though there were hope of life; no,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Always walking along despite the dangers and adversities, despite the injustices and horrors, trusting in God so as not to despair of… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
So is Hope Changed for Despair-one laid upon the shelf, We take the other. Under heaven's high cope Fortune is god-all you… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Ah were she pitiful as she is fair, Or but as mild as she is seeming so, Then were my hopes greater… — Robert Greene 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
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
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
“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 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge.… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
