quotes about hope

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. ~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952



Quote: v., to repeat or copy the words of, usually with acknowledgment of the source; n., shortened and informal version of the word quotation.



O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other. ~Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, vol. I, book II, chapter 1



Love is blind; hate is deaf. ~Author Unknown



A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist. ~Franklin P. Jones



Man was predestined to have free will. ~Hal Lee Luyah



There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back. ~Jim Fiebig



Success has made failures of many men. ~Cindy Adams



God's mill grinds slow, but sure. ~George Herbert



Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life... a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of the seasons, the beauty of seedtime and harvest, the ripe product of the year - and the deep, deep connection of all these things with God. ~Ray Stannard Baker (David Grayson)



Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed. ~Jan de Hartog, The Lamb's War



How can you explain that you need to know that the trees are still there, and the hills and the sky? Anyone knows they are. How can you say it is time your pulse responded to another rhythm, the rhythm of the day and the season instead of the hour and the minute? No, you cannot explain. So you walk. ~Author unknown, from New York Times editorial, "The Walk," 25 October 1967



Few great men could pass personnel. ~Paul Goodman



The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~G.B. Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903



If you wish to hide your character, do not play golf. ~Percey Boomer



Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. ~Erica Jong



Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription. ~Val Saintsbury



Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. ~Lord Chesterfield



Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball. ~Woodie Held



The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art. ~Kenneth Tynan