Hope or Despair

Hope costs nothing. - Colette

Hope is a walking dream. - Aristotle

The eyes have one language everywhere. - George Herbert

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

Hope springs eternal in the human breast. - Alexander Pope

Where there is no vision, there is no hope. - George Washington Carver

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

Hope - is not a feeling; it is something you do. - Katherine Paterson

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

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

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley

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

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

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

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it. - Sigmund Freud

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

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. - Henry Ford

In the factory we make cosmetics, but in my stores we sell hope. - Charles Revson

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

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

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

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

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

My wife's an earth sign. I'm a water sign. Together we make mud. - Henny Youngman

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

The sign said "eight items or less." So I changed my name to Les. - Steven Wright

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. - John Brown

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

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

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

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around. - Louise Bogan

It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope. - Terry Brooks

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. - Jane Wagner

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

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

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

A person's name is, to that person, the sweetest, most important sound in any language. - Dale Carnegie

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

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

Every time a child is born it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed in man. - Rabindranath Tagore

Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada? - Sarah Vowell

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

I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism. - Fred White

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

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

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

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

I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write well enough to sign contracts. - Hermione Gingold

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall. A mother's secret hope outlives them all. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

I saw a sign: "Rest Area 25 Miles". That's pretty big. Some people must be really tired. - Steven Wright

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. - Bertrand Russell

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

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

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

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

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

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? - George Carlin

Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language?
One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap. - Red Skelton

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

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