Hope or Despair

A leader is a dealer in hope. - Napoleon Bonaparte

I hope they bury me near a strait man. - Groucho Marx

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

In the kingdom of hope, there is no winter. - Russian Proverb

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

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

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

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

Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope. - Princess Leia

The great hope of society is individual character. - William Ellery Channing

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

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. - Aristotle

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

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. - Robert G Ingersoll

I hope the guy who invented AutoCorrect burns in Hello! - Unknown

Beware how you take away hope from another human being. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. - Marcus Garvey

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

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. - St. Clement of Alexandra

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. - Cicero

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

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. - Desmond Tutu

That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return. - Albert Camus

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

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

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano. - Frederic Chopin

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

The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker

A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope. - Howard Thurman

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

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

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. - Epictetus

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

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty. - WC Fields

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

Language is our meeting place, the sea we live in…it is the common ground of our humanity. - Toby Wolfe

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

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

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, "It will be happier..." - Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. - Woody Allen

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

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope,
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. - T S Eliot

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

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

Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand - that and such hope as I bring. - JRR Tolkien

I hope you don't mind that I put down in words, how wonderful life is while you're in the world. - Bernie Taupin

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. - Calvin

Crying doesn't indicate that you are weak. Ever since you were born it's been a sign that you are alive. - Unknown

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause. - Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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

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 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

When nature is my inspiration and subject, I am witness to an extraordinary range of color and every imaginable atmospheric condition. - Karen Casey

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

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. - Norman Cousins

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