Adapted Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adapted Amusement Hope Mind Peace Psychology Tranquil
Hope is an adventure, a going forward, a confident search for a rewarding life. — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Hope is much more than wishful thinking. Hope is a way of moving through the world. — Justine Musk Copy Share Image
Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Hope is in some respects a thing more brilliant, more vivifying, than fruition. What we have looked forward to with eager and earnest aspiration… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see - in the mind's eye - a path to a better future. — Jerome Groopman Copy Share Image
Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
David Mamet, Tim Kazurinsky, and Denise DeClue, who adapted [ About Last Night]. Between the three of them... I mean, it's always down to… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
More birds have adapted to a changing world than have failed. Very few have the narrow tolerance of the ivory-billed woodpecker or the Bachman's… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and so we… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor a race… — Emily Murphy Copy Share Image
The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another. God said, 'Thou shalt not kill'; at another time… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
I have a very clear perception what the Internet is in my mind. I'm free. I'm not defined by what they say is the… — Matt Drudge Copy Share Image
