Vain Hope Quotes
16 quotes by 15 authors
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I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need…
— Ben Affleck
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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
— Thomas Carlyle
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One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time…
— Galen Rowell
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Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to…
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time…
— Galen
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O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a…
— Fernando de Rojas
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Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.
— John Boyd Orr
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No reliance can be placed on the friendship of kings, nor vain hope put in the melodious voice of boys; for that passes away like…
— Saadi
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I ask myself how I could give in to this perpetual vertigo that I in fact provoked and feared. I floated among erratic clouds and…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all…
— Charles Dickens
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I tore open the closet door and began feverishly sorting through the shirts piled on the floor in the vain hope that inside that pile…
— John Green
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Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I pulled myself up and told myself to stop these ridiculous thoughts, wondering why it is that we can never stop trying to analyse the…
— Barbara Pym
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My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live in what is…
— Maeve Binchy
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My prime of youth is but a frost of cares, My feast of joy is but a dish of pain, My crop of corn is…
— Chidiock Tichborne
Who Wrote These Vain Hope Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 16 Vain Hope Quotes as follows: