hope

"Hopefully they’ll accept me for what I am, not what I was. That’s all we can ever hope for, isn’t it?"

"Resistance is folly or heroism—a virtue or a vice—in most cases, according to the probabilities there are of its being successful. The perils of change are so great the promise of the most hopeful the…"

"I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of an ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, of all of which I am the su…"

"Nothing ever goes as you expect. Expect nothing, and you will not be surprised. Expect nothing. Hope for nothing. Nothing."

"Faith, considered as a habit, is no more precious than other gracious habits are; but considered as an instrument to receive Christ and His righteousness, it excels them all; and this instrumentality …"

"Which do you think is the more impossible dream: the perfect man or the perfect handbag?"

"If the Republican party shall fail to carry out this purpose, God will raise up another party that will be faithful."

"Women of future generations will have undreamt of career opportunities. You two will use yours to despoil the environment."

"A good rotation. A rotation I define as the experiencing of the new beyond the expectation of the experiencing of the new."

"Other men used their effete faiths and mean faculties with a high moral purpose. The Venetian gave the most earnest faith, and the lordliest faculty, to gild the shadows of an antechamber, or heighten…"

"Soldiers, by an agreement between General Ironhewer and me, the troops of the Army of Kentucky have surrendered. That we are beaten is a self-evident fact, and we cannot hope to resist the bomb that h…"

"Turgenev: The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation."

"Thanks to depression — that alpinism of the indolent — we scale every summit and daydream over every precipice from our bed."

"The kid makes you sick. He looks the part, he walks the part, he is the part. He's six-foot something, fit as a flea, good-looking - he's got to have something wrong with him....Hopefully he's hung li…"

"I waste energy on anger rather than investing it in hope."

"I hope no one thinks we really sniff glue. I stopped when I was eight."

"In the first place, in 1950, I had a 'cosmic dream' in which I saw this image in colour and which in my dream represented the 'nucleus of the atom.' This nucleus later took on a metaphysical sense; I …"

"I took the book from him reverently, and I gazed at these forms incomprehensible to me, but which revealed the immortal thoughts of the greatest shatterer of dreams who had ever dwelt on earth."

"I am still hopeful we can go through the season unbeaten - a frightening thought."

"Balls to aspiration, it's a tosser's mirage."