Quotes and Sayings About Hope
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An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.
-- A. P. HerbertSource : Uncommon Law "Act of God" (1935)
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All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
-- Aaliyah -
Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.
-- AberjhaniSource : Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.19, Lulu.com
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
-- Abraham Cowley -
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Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
-- Abraham Cowley -
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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 -
I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other's despair into hope?-- You yourself must change it.
-- Adrienne Rich -
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
-- Albert Camus -
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If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
-- Albert Einstein -
All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.
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School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope.
-- Albert Shanker -
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
-- Alexander Pope -
Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore; What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
-- Alexander Pope -
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must of felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness.
-- Alfred Billings Street -
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The heart bowed down by weight of woe To weakest hope will cling.
-- Alfred BunnSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...
-- Alfred Lord TennysonSource : "The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marian". Play by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1892.
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Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.
-- Algernon Charles SwinburneSource : Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1418, Delphi Classics
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Faith speaks when hope is disassembled; faith lives when hope dies dead.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
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For me, there is no hope without faith. Faith is a higher good. Faith in our divinity.
-- Alyssa Milano -
Hope sinks a world of imagination.
-- Amanda McKittrick RosSource : Amanda McKittrick Ros (2012). “Irene Iddesleigh”, p.124, The Floating Press
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Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Hope is an explorer who surveys the country ahead. That is why we know so much about the Hereafter and so little about the Heretofore.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
-- Ambrose Bierce