H Quotes
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“Hope we wait on; optimism lives inside all of us.”
“Hope...which is whispered from Pandora's box only after all the other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is only time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion.”
Source: The rule of four
“Hope,... which whispered from Pandora's box after all the other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is only time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion... It's a law of motion, a fact of physics..., no different from the stages of white dwarves and red giants. Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yardstick of our separation. If we are particles in a sea of distance, exploded from an original whole, then there is a science to our solitude. We are lonely in proportion to our years.”
Source: The rule of four
“Hope will break your heart all over again.”
Source: Ignite Me
“Hope will find me
Where faith
Left traces of your love.”
Source: Where Written Words Remain: Route to My Soul
“Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 16-19
“Hope will make you brave. Courage will make you strong. Faith will make you firm. Love will make you invincible.”
“Hope will not become a reality without disciplined thinking. Thinking in a new way does not happen automatically; it requires effort, concentration, and intentionality.”
“Hope without a strategy doesn’t generate leadership. Leadership comes when your hope and your optimism are matched with a concrete vision of the future and a way to get there. People won’t follow you if they don’t believe you can get to where you say you’re going.”
“Hope without love is hopeless.”
“Hope works best when you do nothing.”
“Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit; it lights the candle instead of cursing the darkness.”
“Hope you didn't bring any spiders into the van with you,' Simon put in. 'Hey, I'm thinking we could take you back outside and hose you down, just to make sure. You'd definitely smell better if we did, which, I mean, bonus.'
Jeremy scraped both hands through his hair again, then beat them clean against his thighs. 'Believe me, Simon, if we had access to a garden hose, I'd be the first to turn it on myself. I feel foul.'
'Hate to break it to you, Archer, but that feeling is not lying to you,' Simon said with mild relish.”
Source: High Fidelity
“Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged.”
“Hope you enjoy the show then, darling.” Heat flickered in his amber eyes, and his lowered voice made the implication quite clear. A shiver rolled down her spine, but as always she didn’t betray those impulses.”
Source: Captivating Melody
“Hope you like my gumbo.”
“I know we will,” Colt said, and took a bite.
“Not too spicy for you?” the cook asked with a laugh.
“As long as it doesn’t melt the spoon, it’s not too spicy for me.”
Source: Cowboy's Redemption
“Hope you’re not prone to nose bleeds. The course sits at the highest elevation in Texas. It’s flat as a pancake, but one day a guy in the group ahead of us had his superglued toupee ripped right off his head. Rumor was it rode the Rio Grande River all the way into Mexico,” Patrick said with a wink and a nod.”
Source: A Kind of Hush
“Hope you're keeping the dust out of your eyes and your feet off the ground.”
Source: Velva Jean Learns to Fly: Book 2 in the Velva Jean series
“Hope you're pleased with the crumbs she throws you.”
“Hope you're working hard, because I am!!!”
“hope your birthday is hot hot hot”
“Hope your new boots are fast Bella. One little jar isn't going to keep a hungry bear occupied for long." "I only have to be faster than you.”
Source: New Moon
“Hope your wildest hopes, dream your maddest dreams, imagine your most fantastic fantasies. Where your hopes and your dreams and your imagination leave off, the love of my Heavenly Father only begins.”
Source: The Relentless Tenderness of Jesus
“Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!”
“Hope! thou nurse of young desire.”
Source: Love in a village: a comic opera
“Hope' wins over 'Experience' every time.”
“Hope's Folly is a rapid-fire romp through futuristic political intrigue and high-risk passion The tug of war between decorum and passion keeps the romantic intrigue smoldering. With Hope's Folly, Linnea Sinclair builds on a secure reputation as a leading fashioner of science fiction romance. She straddles and blends these genres with a unique bravura and wit.”
“Hope's interesting, isn't it? I can't turn hope off, it's hopeless.”
“Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.”
“Hope, and fear. Twin forces that tugged at us first in one direction and then in another, and which was the stronger no one could say. Of the latter we never spoke, but it was always with us. Fear, constant companion of the peasant. Hunger, ever at hand to jog his elbow should he relax. Despair, ready to engulf him should he falter. Fear; fear of the dark future; fear of the sharpness of hunger; fear of the blackness of death.”
Source: Nectar in a sieve and related readings
“Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.”
“Hope, danger's comforter”
Source: The History of the Peloponnesian War
“Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us through life agreeably enough.”
“Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.”
“Hope, even more than necessity, is the mother of invention.”
“Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things are possible, options are not shut down, new creation can happen.”
“Hope, how she had grown to hate the word. It was an insideious seed planted inside a person's soul, surviving covertly on little tending, then flowering so spectacularly that none could help but cherish it.”
Source: The Forgotten Garden: A Novel
“Hope, however, isn't all that's needed to achieve change. Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of this deep hole. The second hand was faith.”
Source: One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel
“Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it - so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.”
Source: The Antichrist
“Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.”
Source: The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations
“Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.”
“Hope, like despair, is something of a distraction: it gets in the way of a clear view of the horizon.”
“Hope, like faith, is a principle of action. It motivates and inspires. We do not sit in our armchairs and hope for hope; we get up and go to work.”
“Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.”
“Hope, like the gleaming taper”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces
“Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,
Adorns and cheers our way;
And still, as darker grows the night,
Emits a brighter ray.”
Source: The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 1: Poetical works; Dramas; The vicar of Wakefield
“Hope, O my soul, hope. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a long one.”
“Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour.”
“Hope, perhaps the most dangerous of all emotions and perhaps the most necessary.”
“Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce "boum.”