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Hope or Despair
Choosing the road not taken is easy if you live near Vancouver, B.C.
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“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost (1874–1963)
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Hope is a walking dream. - Aristotle
A leader is a dealer in hope. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Hope is a very unruly emotion. - Gloria Steinem
Where there is life, there is hope. - Alyson Noel
He that lives on hope will die fasting. - Benjamin Franklin
Don't hope for success. Work for it. - Unknown
Life begins on the other side of despair. - Jean-Paul Sartre
Hope springs eternal in the human breast. - Alexander Pope
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
For hope is but the dream of those that wake. - Matthew Prior
Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy. - Unknown
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks. - Francois Rabelais
Hope - is not a feeling; it is something you do. - Katherine Paterson
At first we hope too much, later on, not enough. - Unknown
Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope. - Princess Leia
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. - Ovid
There is not love of life without despair about life. - Albert Camus
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
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. - Terry Pratchett
The computer is down. I hope it's something serious. - Stanton Delaplane
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
My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August. - Ronnie Shakes
I gotta lose weight, Edith. I hope you remembered my diuretic cottage cheese. - Archie Bunker
It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it. - Suzanne Necker
Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. - Bo Bennett
It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope. - Terry Brooks
Even when the world throws its worst and then turns its back, there is still hope. - Pittacus Lore
I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. - Jane Wagner
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
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. - Leonardo da Vinci
Language is our meeting place, the sea we live in…it is the common ground of our humanity. - Toby Wolfe
Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the window which hope has opened. - Charles Spurgeon
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. - Florida Scott-Maxwell
Every time a child is born it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed in man. - Rabindranath Tagore
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? - Laurence J. Peter
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, "It will be happier..." - Alfred Lord Tennyson
It's difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope for tomorrow. - Robert H. Goddard
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. - Woody Allen
In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism. - Teresa Heinz
If the sign on your heart says, "WELCOME", the love will come pouring in from everywhere. - Susan Jeffers
He who labors diligently need never despair, for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. - Menander
If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me. - John Wooden
I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write well enough to sign contracts. - Hermione Gingold
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
Violence of language leads to violence of action. Angry men seldom fight if their tongues do not lead the fray. - Charles V Roman
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. - Calvin
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. - Stephen Ambrose
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you're riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. - Bob Marley
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
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance. - Orville Wright
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
There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. - Randy Pausch
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan
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
A man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed – I well know. For it’s a sign that he tried to surpass himself. - Georges Clemenceau
Sometimes when you least expect it, the tables turn and that scary feeling that has taken hold of you for so long somehow turns into hope. - David Archuleta
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
Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, and hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kids' therapy. - Michelle Pfeiffer
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
A leader is a dealer in hope. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Hope is a very unruly emotion. - Gloria Steinem
Where there is life, there is hope. - Alyson Noel
He that lives on hope will die fasting. - Benjamin Franklin
Don't hope for success. Work for it. - Unknown
Life begins on the other side of despair. - Jean-Paul Sartre
Hope springs eternal in the human breast. - Alexander Pope
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
For hope is but the dream of those that wake. - Matthew Prior
Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy. - Unknown
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks. - Francois Rabelais
Hope - is not a feeling; it is something you do. - Katherine Paterson
At first we hope too much, later on, not enough. - Unknown
Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope. - Princess Leia
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. - Ovid
There is not love of life without despair about life. - Albert Camus
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
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. - Terry Pratchett
The computer is down. I hope it's something serious. - Stanton Delaplane
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
My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August. - Ronnie Shakes
I gotta lose weight, Edith. I hope you remembered my diuretic cottage cheese. - Archie Bunker
It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it. - Suzanne Necker
Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. - Bo Bennett
It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope. - Terry Brooks
Even when the world throws its worst and then turns its back, there is still hope. - Pittacus Lore
I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. - Jane Wagner
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
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. - Leonardo da Vinci
Language is our meeting place, the sea we live in…it is the common ground of our humanity. - Toby Wolfe
Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the window which hope has opened. - Charles Spurgeon
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. - Florida Scott-Maxwell
Every time a child is born it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed in man. - Rabindranath Tagore
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? - Laurence J. Peter
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, "It will be happier..." - Alfred Lord Tennyson
It's difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope for tomorrow. - Robert H. Goddard
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. - Woody Allen
In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism. - Teresa Heinz
If the sign on your heart says, "WELCOME", the love will come pouring in from everywhere. - Susan Jeffers
He who labors diligently need never despair, for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. - Menander
If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me. - John Wooden
I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write well enough to sign contracts. - Hermione Gingold
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
Violence of language leads to violence of action. Angry men seldom fight if their tongues do not lead the fray. - Charles V Roman
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. - Calvin
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. - Stephen Ambrose
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you're riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. - Bob Marley
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
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance. - Orville Wright
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
There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. - Randy Pausch
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan
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
A man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed – I well know. For it’s a sign that he tried to surpass himself. - Georges Clemenceau
Sometimes when you least expect it, the tables turn and that scary feeling that has taken hold of you for so long somehow turns into hope. - David Archuleta
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
Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, and hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kids' therapy. - Michelle Pfeiffer
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
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