Alleys Quote by George Eliot

Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We’ve got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

There is such a difference between the pursuits of men in great cities that one part of the inhabitants lives to little other purpose…

— Samuel Johnson

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

— Michel de Montaigne

Deep within each of us is a longing for home. We yearn for a place of comfort where we can be ourselves, where we…

— Denise Linn

“What makes hope such an intense pleasure is the fact that the future, which we dispose of to our liking, appears to us at…

— Henri Bergson

There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.

— Khalil Gibran

We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and…

— Joshua Chamberlain

I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known, but rather,…

— Bernadette Roberts

Our hopes, desires and ambitions are powerful forces existing within us for the shaping of the future. They are the generating forces that create…

— Daisaku Ikeda

“We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and…

— Alice Rains Trulock

You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires.

— Elias Hicks

Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first…

— James Fitzjames Stephen