Charles G. Dawes (Charles Gates Dawes) Quotes

Hope is a willing slave; despair is free.

Charles G. Dawes

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• I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the U.S. supports.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Hope
  • Freedom
  • Inspiration

• Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Luck

• I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • People
  • Hope
  • Giving

• Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Hope
  • Death
  • Faith

• I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

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

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • People
  • God
  • Hope

• I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best.

  

  Wale
  • Hope
  • Think
  • Best

• I would like to see people dreaming of striking out on their own into some other country or their own, wherever they feel the action is, in the hope of an exciting and rewarding career.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • People
  • Country
  • Hope

• I teach at the Stanford Business School, and about half of my students are foreign, many of whom, I hope, will stay and build businesses in U.S. But I must tell you that they also have opportunities to come back to India and start great companies and operations.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Great
  • School
  • Business

• I know I got to do something that's one in a million, to escape a refugee camp, to come to this country and have so many doors open for me. So I want to go back and make a difference and give motivation or hope to all the kids that never got to leave or have the privilege that I did.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Country
  • Kids
  • Hope

• On two or three book tours, I have visited bookstores in the Mall of America and signed copies of my books and introduced myself to store employees who I hope will sell them.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Book
  • America
  • Hope

• London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a safety net. Still, you had to hope the ones you got were good.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Good
  • History
  • Hope

• What I hope is less about what the greens will do but what people who don't consider themselves part of the green movement will do.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Hope
  • Green

• The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • World
  • True
  • Hope

• I surely do hope that's a syntax error.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Hope

• There is never no hope left. Remember.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Remember
  • Hope

• I hope to go on and on.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Hope

• With a fresh start, I hope it'll work out good. I know the whole Fox story and how he came over here and had a great year for them. I'm hoping that's what it'll be - fresh start, new faces, new team, new city. I'm looking forward to getting out there.

  

  Billy Koch
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• I hope that somewhere in Small Town, U.S.A., a 15-year-old kid looks to me as a role model the way I looked at the Indigo Girls and Elton John as role models.

  

  Brandi Carlile
  • Hope
  • Small
  • Model

• When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a paradise of which they have been beguiled; but when they are shown it properly, and in due time, they see it such as it really is, equally shared by pain and pleasure, hope and disappointment.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I've managed stations.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Stations

• If you take guys like Exequiel Bustillo, the architect who designed the early park infrastructure in Argentina, or the great American architects, these guys had a vision that thrust the national park idea into the public eye.

  

  Douglas Tompkins
  • Great
  • American
  • Vision

• I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Hate
  • Purpose
  • Lesbian

• Hope is a willing slave; despair is free.

  

  Charles G. Dawes
  • Hope
  • Slave
  • Despair