Seamus Heaney Quotes

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Seamus Heaney

• Hope

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do.

  

  J. Cole
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Follow

• I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • People
  • Hope
  • Inspiration

• Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Hope
  • See
  • Author

• I hope to bring people to God with my songs.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • People
  • God
  • Hope

• Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • War
  • History
  • Hope

• Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Hope
  • Dream
  • Fly

• You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Up
  • Truth
  • American

• As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Up
  • Music
  • Hope

• I was close to getting married a long time ago. But it didn't happen, and since then it has not been happening. It is jinxed, and I am very happy. I hope this jinx continues.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Time
  • Long
  • Happy

• I believe that the Tibetans should have the right to control their own destinies and decide for themselves whether they want to be part of China or not. But this view isn't shared by most Chinese, or even the leaders of most Western democracies. As long as the Communist Party is in power, there is little hope for Tibet.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Power

• In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

  

  Barack Obama
  • Hope
  • Politics
  • End

• The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Hope
  • Beginning

• The man of Hope, Barack Obama. America is stronger because of President Obama's leadership, and I'm better because of his friendship.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • America
  • Hope
  • Leadership

• It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • Live
  • May
  • Hope

• I'd have to acknowledge that I have a weakness for the fairer sex - and I hope I never get over it.

  

  Chuck Robb
  • Hope
  • Sex

• The #metoo campaign picked up speed after the actress Alyssa Milano suggested that if every woman simply typed 'me too' on their platform of choice, they might give the world a true sense of the magnitude of the problem. The hope is that safety in numbers might minimize the shame many women feel in admitting that this has happened to them.

  

  Emily Chang
  • Up
  • World
  • Women

• I don't think you ever really decide that you want to be an astronaut. I put in an application and hoped for the best.

  

  Kathleen Rubins
  • Hope
  • Best
  • Decide

• I'm a big fan of Courtney Love. I love Hole and I love her acting and I love her attitude. I just hope I never meet her in a dark alley.

  

  Jeff Ross
  • Hope
  • Dark
  • Attitude

• The honor you have given us goes not to us as a crew, but to ... all Americans, who believed, who persevered with us. What Apollo has begun we hope will spread out in many directions, not just in space, but underneath the seas, and in the cities to tell us unforgettably what we will and must do. There are footprints on the moon. Those footprints belong to each and every one of you, to all mankind. They are there because of the blood, sweat, and tears of millions of people. Those footprints are the symbol of true human spirit.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • People
  • Believe
  • True

• When there is no hope, one must invent hope.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Hope
  • Invent

• The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Soul

• The Marvel universe is a deep, weird, woolly place, and getting to expose strange corners of it is part of the fun of 'She-Hulk.' Honestly, it's part of the fun of any Marvel book.

  

  Charles Soule
  • Book
  • Fun
  • Universe

• Visualization is the human being's vehicle to the future - good, bad, or indifferent. It's strictly in our control.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Future

• Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Hope