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Author:Timothy Keller

“There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around.”

Way Feels Consciousness Hopeful Hopeless

Book:The Revolution of Hope

Source: The Revolution of Hope

“As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn’t long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith.”

Trying Long Enough Facts Faith Understanding Tasks Hopeless Ladders Understanding You

Author:Robert Breault

“Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.”

People Hopeless

Author:Ralph Abernathy

“A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality, which he may ignore or repress, but which is recorded by the relentless computer of his subconscious mechanism that registers an ebbing flow, then a trickle, then a few last drops of fuel--until the day when his inner motor stops and he wonders desperately why he has no desire to go on, unable to find any definable cause of his hopeless, chronic sense of exhaustion.”

Source: The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought

“"The word which God has written on the brow of every person," wrote Victor Hugo, "is Hope." As long as we have hope no situation is hopeless.”

Persons Long Hope Situation Written Hopeless Brows Having Hope

Author:Wilferd Peterson

“I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain that I can do it. It seems very simple. I don't think of the time that is sure to come when I almost despair, when the whole thing seems hopeless.”

Thinking Feels I Can Whole Seems Certain Can Do Simple Wonder Despair Jokes Paint Hopeless Portraits I Can Do It

Author:William Morris Hunt

“I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions.”

People Ideas Hurt Millions Failing Policy Skills No Idea Hopeless Candle Strategic

Author:Alastair Campbell

“Math was a two-part exam and I once didn't go for the second part. I knew I'd done so badly on the first it was hopeless. I re-took it about four or five times. I think I eventually got it by getting the top GCSE grade.”

Thinking Firsts Two Done Five Four Math Grades Hopeless Exam

Author:Rob Brydon

“I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.”

I Can Play Girl Next Agents Sat Hopeless

Author:Laura Carmichael

“I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.”

Mother Suffering Flaws Hopeless Pollyanna

Author:Bill Ayers

“Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep.”

Feels Mind Heart Individual Sleep Miserable Hopeless Racing Anxious Exhausted Can't Sleep Heart Pounding

Author:Dale Archer

“Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.”

Life Made Young Modern Useless Hopeless Isolated Modern Society Uselessness

Book:A Way of Being

Source: A Way of Being

“I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen.”

Littles Home Politics Lost Left Screens Tonight Staying Hopeless Getting Lost

Author:Leonard Cohen

“I am a hopeless romantic.”

Hopeless Hopeless Romantic

Author:Jessica Brown Findlay

“Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be .. but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means is surely as good as another, since the end obtained is always the same. In any case the exceptional, endlessly repeated, is no different than the banal; and unceasing recapitulation can add nothing, in the end, to the sum of experience. I am weary and hopeless three times the dupe. Why have you trained me in the shame of abominable sins?”

May Mean Different Ends Three Sin Cases Shame Add Lust Sensuality Hopeless Weary Three Times Exceptional Dupes Recapitulation

Author:Remy de Gourmont

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