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I never saw a purple cow; I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rather see than be one.
We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.
Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement.
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
I do a lot of things hopin I never had to fit in, so tryin to keep up with my progress is like a dead end.
No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.
Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.
The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.
By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.
Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.
No matter where you are on your journey, that's exactly where you need to be. The next road is always ahead.
With a mind not diseased, a holy life is a life of hope; and at the end of it, death is a great act of hope.
We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.
You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars.
All of sudden, this shooting star went by, and all I could think was that they were listening to us somehow.
So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.
We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.
I’ve always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can’t live for a second without hope.
Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence.
Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.
One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
The hope of the world lies in the rehabilitation of the living human being, not just the body but also the soul.
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.
It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.
We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.
Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.
You can’t change someone’s behaviour, all you can do is remind them, and hope that Allah will change their heart.
When they turn the sun on again I'll plant children under it, I'll light up my soul with a match and let it sing.
The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.
The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.
In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it or beyond it.
There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.
I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.