Hopes Quotes

• It is through the perversion of the religious element in woman, playing upon her hopes and fears of the future, holding this life with all its high duties in abeyance to that which is to come, that she and the children she has trained have been so completely subjugated by priestcraft and superstition.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Children
  • Superstition
  • Religious Element

• Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.

  

  Steven Saylor
  • Expression
  • Novel
  • Fears

• I will vote my hopes and not my fears

  

  Herb Kohl
  • Vote
  • Hopes
  • Fears

• Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Thing
  • Expectations
  • Hopes

• The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Science
  • Way
  • Ideas

• Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that the peculiar quality of this secondary world (if not all the details) are derived from Reality, or are flowing into it.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Reality
  • Writer
  • Wishes

• The past is not a peaceful landscape lying there behind me, a country in which I can stroll wherever I please, and will gradually show me all its secret hills and dales. As I was moving forward, so it was crumbling. Most of the wreckage that can be seen is colourless, distorted, frozen: its meaning escapes me... all that's left is a skeleton. I shall never find my plans again, my hopes and fears - I shall not find myself.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Moving
  • Hopes
  • Escapes

• The optimistic side of me hopes that the majority of people look at what's going on in politics today and in the world, in general, and just say, "We've had enough."

  

  Edwin Hodge
  • Politics
  • Optimistic
  • Hopes

• Ours is the job of interpreting the Constitution. And that document isn't some inkblot on which litigants may project their hopes and dreams.

  

  Neil Gorsuch
  • Constitution
  • Project
  • Hopes

• Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Achieve
  • Triumph
  • Fears

• Together they watched the fireflies twinkle in and out like hopes in the darkness.

  

  Elizabeth Chadwick
  • Darkness
  • Hopes
  • Fireflies

• For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength--we are able in the end both to dominate the first and to achieve the second.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • First
  • Achieve
  • Fears

• How very sad it is to have a confiding nature, one's hopes and feelings are quite at the mercy of all who come along; and how very desirable to be a stolid individual, whose hopes and aspirations are safe in one's waistcoat pocket, and that a pocket indeed, and one not to be picked!

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Nature
  • Feeling
  • Hopes

• Incredible what slender threads you begin to hang your hopes on.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Hopes
  • Hang
  • Slender

• The mighty hopes that make us men.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Men
  • Hopes

• Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.

  

  George Eliot
  • Life
  • Hopes

• When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

  

  Stephen Jay Gould
  • Judgment
  • Hopes
  • Manipulation

• There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Heaven
  • Stories
  • Laugh

• Where even a sliver of love exists the thinnest of hopes has room to grow.

  

  Esther Earl
  • Love
  • Grow
  • Exists

• The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn't about money or possessions or even our hopes. It's about our pride. He asks if we'll give up that thing we're so proud of, that thing we believe causes us to matter in the eyes of the world, and give it up to follow Him. He's asking us, 'Will you take what you think defines you, leave it behind, and let Me define who you are instead?'

  

  Bob Goff
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Game

• A home in the country is what a city man hopes to buy and a farmer hopes to sell.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Home
  • Farmer
  • Hopes

• Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Alive
  • Shame
  • Hopes

• Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Alone
  • Grief
  • Poets

• Some part of me hopes for a guardian angel to protect me and other people who need protection.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Protection
  • Hopes
  • Guardian

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