Quotations About / On: HOPE

  • 81.
    I hope all your teeth have cavities, and don't forget abscess makes the heart grow fonder.
    (Morrie Ryskind, U.S. screenwriter, Robert Florey, and Joseph Santley. Mr. Hammer (Groucho Marx), The Cocoanuts, insulting his bumbling shill Chico (Chico Marx) at an auction of worthless real estate (1929). Ryskind adapted this film from original Broadway play by George Kaufman.)
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  • 82.
    Time is a great teacher,
    Who can live without hope?
    (Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), U.S. poet. The People, Yes (l. 76-77). . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 83.
    putting his hope in certain death, lowering
    his head again to the grass.
    (Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "Ce bruit de la mer . . .....")
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  • 84.
    Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
    (Jane Austen (1775-1817), British novelist. Mary Crawford in Mansfield Park, ch. 7 (1814).)
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  • 85.
    Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
    (Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), Anglo-Irish novelist. The Death of the Heart, pt. 2, ch. 4 (1938).)
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  • 86.
    None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
    (Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), U.S. novelist. What America Means to Me, ch. 4 (1943).)
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  • 87.
    I hope that you live on good terms with yourself and the gods.
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Letter, February 16, 1843, to Ralph Waldo Emerson, in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 6, p. 62, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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  • 88.
    He who plants a tree
    Plants a hope.
    (Lucy Larcom (1826-1893), U.S. poet. "Plant a Tree," st. 1.)
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  • 89.
    Each of us enters the world because hope for the future preceded us.
    (Marge Kennedy (20th century), U.S. author. 100 Things You Can Do to Keep Your Family Together..., Introduction to part 1 (1994).)
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  • 90.
    In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
    (John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908), U.S. economist. New York Times Magazine (June 7, 1970).)
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