Hope or Despair

Hope is a very unruly emotion. - Gloria Steinem

Hope is a song in a weary throat. - Pauli Murray

Where there is life, there is hope. - Alyson Noel

Inspiration is remembering the future. - Unknown

A riot is the language of the unheard. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

The eyes have one language everywhere. - George Herbert

Dance is the hidden language of the soul. - Martha Graham

Once you choose hope, anything's possible. - Christopher Reeve

A spotless house is a sign of a misspent life. - Unknown

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. - Oscar Wilde

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. - Edmund Burke

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. - Sir Francis Bacon

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley

There is not love of life without despair about life. - Albert Camus

Inspiration fires you up; motivation keeps you burning. - Stuart Aken

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. - Rita Mae Brown

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. - Steven Wright

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope. - Alexandre Dumas

They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on. - Christopher Walken

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. - Arthur Miller

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats

Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle I have hope for the human race. - H G Wells

England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence. - Barbara Walters

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Hold on to a ray of hope, and a promise of future... and follow your dreams. - Unknown

When you make a commitment, you build hope. When you keep it, you build trust. - Unknown

I got something important here to read and sign and I gotta consecrate on that. - Archie Bunker

Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions. - Thomas Leonard

If you're not failing now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe. - Woody Allen

Depression occurs when one looks back with no pride, and looks forward with no hope. - Robert Frost

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it. - Learned hand

We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. - Oscar Wilde

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. - Blaise Pascal

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound

I'm having difficulty getting the doctors around here to sign the appropriate form. - Spike Milligan

It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to persevere. - Charles the Bold

Hope is the anchor of the soul, the stimulus to action, and the incentive to achievement. - Unknown

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. - Leonardo da Vinci

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? - Albert Einstein

The grand essentials of life are something to do, something to love, something to hope for. - Thomas Chalmers

The first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization. - Sigmund Freud

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be. - Lois McMaster Bujold

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. - Franklin P. Jones

Once in a lifetime the longed-for tidal wave of justice can rise up, and hope and history rhyme. - Seamus Heaney

It's difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope for tomorrow. - Robert H. Goddard

German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar

If the sign on your heart says, "WELCOME", the love will come pouring in from everywhere. - Susan Jeffers

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back. - Don Henley

If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me. - John Wooden

The names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. - A.S. Byatt

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. - Woody Allen

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. - Woody Allen

Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. - Maurice Chevalier

They say everybody gets 15 minutes. I hope I'm just inside the first minute and the next 14 go really slow. - Terrence Howard

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. - O.S. Marden

The longest word in the English language is the one following the phrase, "And now a word from our sponsor." - Hal Eaton

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. - Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all. - Emily Dickinson

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. - Oscar Wilde

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. - Nelson Mandela

Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope. - Wyclef Jean

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. - Bertrand Russell

I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes.
I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em. - Will Rogers

When I know that, if I have no inspiration whatsoever, when I come and I just feel empty, I have nothing, I know that I can still play the scene. - Christopher Walken

I've never been able to grow an organ back," Lana said. "Last time I tried... Let's just hope you don't end up with whip eyes. - Michael Grant

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe