Hope or Despair

Hope costs nothing. - Colette

Hope is a walking dream. - Aristotle

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

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

Hope is the dream of the waking man. - French Proverb

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

The eyes have one language everywhere. - George Herbert

He that lives on hope will die fasting. - Benjamin Franklin

Don't hope for success. Work for it. - Unknown

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only real laughter comes from despair. - Groucho Marx

The Pope, I hope, can only be scared by God. - Donald Trump

For hope is but the dream of those that wake. - Matthew Prior

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

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks. - Francois Rabelais

At first we hope too much, later on, not enough. - Unknown

Love paid a price so hope could become a reality. - Susan Gaddis

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

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope. - William Hazlitt

Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope. - Ogden Nash

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

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it. - Albert Camus

How do they get the deer to cross at that yellow road sign? - George Carlin

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin

Where there is no future before a people, there is no hope. - Edward Wilmot Blyden

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

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge

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

I hope it will be hard for the Russians to jump across that creek. - Gustavus Adolphus

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work. - Harvey Mackay

Jon Snow: I'm not afraid to die.
Mormont: Nor life, I hope. - George R.R. Martin

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

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. - Stendhal

Only send out into the world that which you hope to receive in return. - Peter Legge

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London

Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try. - Zig Ziglar

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

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine

I gotta lose weight, Edith. I hope you remembered my diuretic cottage cheese. - Archie Bunker

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. - Joseph Addison

It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it. - Suzanne Necker

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. - Bo Bennett

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

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

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

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. - Pope John Paul II

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

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

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence. - Helen Keller

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

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. - Wanda Landowska

He who labors diligently need never despair, for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. - Menander

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

Violence of language leads to violence of action. Angry men seldom fight if their tongues do not lead the fray. - Charles V Roman

If the English language made any sense, 'lackadaisical' would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. - Doug Larson

Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument. - Harriet Martineau

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes but morning comes ... keep hope alive. - Jesse Jackson

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain

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

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics. - Bill Vaughan

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. - Napoleon Hill

I glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright. - Millard Kaufman

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

No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden.
My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead. - Gail Carson Levine

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

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