The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I'm... like a poet hidden In the light of thought Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Only one life, a few brief years, Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears; Each with its clays I must fulfill. living… — Charles Studd Copy Share Image
Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Mars has become a kind of mythic arena onto which we have projected our earthly hopes and fears. But our psychological predispositions… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“She spoke about her family she'd lost. She spoke about her secret hopes and fears and longings. She had love to give,… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
Though varying wishes, hopes, and fears, Fever'd the progress of these years, Yet now, days, weeks, and months but seem The recollection… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Love is not a matter of getting connected. It is a matter of seeing that we already ARE connected within an intricate… — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
“That the hand of God was involved in the birth of the new nation he had no doubt. "It is the will… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Let it never be forgotten that it is not by means of war that states are rendered fit for the enjoyment of… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Hope strengthens. Fear kills[...] That simple adage is master of every situation, every choice. Each morning we wake up, we get to… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; his origin, his growth, his hopes… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The laws of war, that restrain the exercise of national rapine and murder, are founded on two principles of substantial interest: the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“There is no remedy against this reversal of the natural order. Man cannot escape from his own achievement. He cannot but adopt… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
“Be greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy.' Easier said than done for the vast majority of stock… — M. E. Thomas Copy Share Image
“Article II creates an office, President of the United States, that remains a kind of inkblot onto which generations of Americans have… — Garrett Epps Copy Share Image
Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. What does it mean that success is a dangerous as… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It may be the will of Heaven that America shall suffer calamities still more wasting, and distresses yet more dreadful. If this… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We look at the world through our likes and dislikes, hopes and fears, opinions and judgments. We want everyone to behave as… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
People tend to see David Cameron through the prism of their hopes and fears. Labour supporters want to believe that he is… — Nick Boles Copy Share Image
Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity;… — Gerald M. Loeb Copy Share Image
“Because Christmas did something to the world at large and to individuals in particular. It crystallized all your hopes and fears. It… — Sharon Kendrick Copy Share Image
We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“My world had for some years been Lowood: my experience had been of its rules and systems; now I remembered that the… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The past is not a peaceful landscape lying there behind me, a country in which I can stroll wherever I please, and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“She was famous, and she was insane. Her voice soared out over the audience, holding them spellbound and enraptured, delivering their hopes… — Dianne Sylvan Copy Share Image
The suburbs have always been like an American version of utopia and a reflection of their hopes and fears. Erika's version of… — Erika M. Anderson Copy Share Image
“The mind is the only level at which any lasting change can occur—it is the soil in which we plant our hopes… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“Uncertainty, in the presence of vivid hopes and fears, is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Most of the time we are trying to make the good things last, or we are thinking about replacing them with something… — Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Copy Share Image
Sometimes, reading my own media, the negativity can upset me, but I just deal with things on a positive basis. I mean,… — James Blunt Copy Share Image