Quotes by American Authors - Page 147

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
Stevie Wonder
We live on the leash of our senses.
Diane Ackerman
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
Dorothea Brande
In the night of death hope sees a star and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?
Martin Marty
The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.
Daniel Berrigan
Hold your head high stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes but morning comes. ... Keep hope alive.
Jesse Jackson
I always entertain great hopes.
Robert Frost
The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me and nothing before me but hope.
Louis L'Amour
The hopeful man sees success where others see failure sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
Orison Swett Marden
Hope is a very unruly emotion.
Gloria Steinem
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
Robert G. Ingersoll
In the face of uncertainty there is nothing wrong with hope.
O. Carl Simonton
It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise.
Nancy Thayer
Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The happy ending is our national belief.
Mary McCarthy
Grass grows at last above all graves.
Julia Dorr
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
Hope ... is not a feeling it is something you do.
Katherine Paterson
Hope is a song in a weary throat.
Pauli Murray
Honor begets honor trust begets trust faith begets faith and hope is the mainspring of life.
Henry L. Stimson
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.
Ambrose Bierce
Hope is an adventure a going forward a confident search for a rewarding life.
Dr. Karl Menninger
Hope is the poor man's bread.
Gary Herbert
Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
John F Kennedy
When you're depressed the whole body is depressed and it translates to the cellular level. The first objective is to get your energy up and you can do it through play. It's one of the most powerful ways of breaking up hopelessness and bringing energy into the situation.
O. Carl Simonton
One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Other men see only a hopeless end but the Christian rejoices in an endless hope.
Gilbert M. Beeken
Hope never abandons you you abandon it.
George Weinberg
There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
Clare Boothe Luce
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless you are slamming the door in the face of God.
Charles L. Allen
I steer my bark with hope in my heart leaving fear astern.
Thomas Jefferson
Stars will blossom in the darkness Violets bloom beneath the snow.
Julia Dorr
Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans football fans hockey fans and gardeners.
Robert Orben
There is no medicine like hope no incentive so great and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
Orison Swett Marden
Clouds and darkness surround us yet heaven is just and the day of triumph will surely come when justice and truth will be vindicated. Our wrongs will be made right and we will once more taste the blessings of freedom.
Mary Todd Lincoln
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
Eric Hoffer
Hope arouses as nothing else can arouse a passion for the possible.
William Sloane Coffin
My faith is important. I have nothing without it.
Kathy Ireland
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
Pearl S. Buck
Man can live about forty days without food about three days without water about eight minutes without air ... but only for one second without hope.
Hal Lindsey
When hope is taken away from the people moral degeneration follows swiftly after.
Pearl S. Buck
We must have hope or starve to death.
Pearl S. Buck
Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.
Bernie S. Siegel
Hope is the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
Dr. Karl Menninger
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Helen Keller
It has never been and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they both lead to the same destination.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone but that life is not worth living without it.
Harvey Milk
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love something to do and something to hope for.
Tom Bodett
Lord save us all from ... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Mark Twain
Hope is an echo hope ties itself yonder yonder.
Carl Sandburg
The slow compromise or even surrender of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.
Leston L. Havens
Some one once said to me 'Reverend Schuller I hope you live to see all your dreams fulfilled.' I replied T hope not because if I live and all my dreams are fulfilled I'm dead.' It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive.
Robert Schuller
We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
John F Kennedy
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.
Norman Cousins
One of the best safeguards of our hopes I have suggested is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness and to acknowledge them to face them directly not with despair but with the creative intent of keeping them from polluting all the areas of possibility.
William F. Lynch
I suppose it can be truthfully said that hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Robert G. Ingersoll
We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true they ruin our dreams.
Eric Hoffer