hope

"My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith."

"Marriage is the death of hope."

"I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams. It is because man, when h…"

"The concept of Abstract painting is not a passing abstraction, good only for a few initiates, the total expression of a new generation whose necessities it experiences and to all of whose aspirations …"

"I continue to practice in the same way that I always have done and I think it's important that one is able to do that. Faith guides me in everything I do."

"I dreamed once that I was going to be hanged; but I was not at all surprised about it. Nobody was. My relations came to see me off, I thought, and to wish me "Good-by!" They all came, and were all ver…"

"Thus in the time of our pain and our woe He sheweth us Cheer of His Passion and His Cross, helping us to bear it by His own blessed virtue. And in the time of our sinning He sheweth to us Cheer of Rut…"

"At present , not taking my serious illness into account, I still hope to make something for the 25th anniversary of the October Revolution. - El Lissitzky, June 1941, Moscow Notes."

"Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt."

"He tried to weigh his soul to see if it was a poet's soul. Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and…"

"sings more sincere than most entertainers, because the hillbilly was raised tougher than most entertainers. The people who has been raised something like the way the hillbilly has, knows what he is si…"

"Every utopia about to be realized resembles a cynical dream."

"I cannot avoid wondering about the feelings of those who are now the apparent rulers of Iran. They are, despite their mistakes and the crimes which they have instigated, men of faith who claim to be s…"

"I dream of wanting — and all I want seems to me worthless."

"Evil cannot be conquered by wishing."

"Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves."

"Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good."

"It was a moment of the kind that changes lives. At a press conference held by climate activists Extinction Rebellion last week, two of us journalists pressed the organisers on whether their aims were …"

"If he met resistance he threw men at it; if the obstacle was insurmountable he went around it; if the odds were hopeless he trusted in Jippir"

"I began to suspect that Daddy had been right all along: the only hope I had of changing the world was to change myself first."