201 quotes found
“We must look hopeful.”
“I write out of instinct.”
“Time and space are awash here.”
“True hope has no room for delusion.”
“Never look a gift horse in the mouth.”
“Buy a Bible!Your guide to eternal life!”
“It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to kee...”
“Are we labouring at some Work too vast for us to perceive? Are our passions and desires mere whips and traces by the help of which we are driven? Any theory seems more hopeful than the thought that...”
“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
“It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most ...”
“I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.”
“To hope under the most extreme circumstances is an act of defiance that permits a person to live his life on his own terms. It is part of the human spirit to endure and give a miracle a chance to h...”
“Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and doubt that can deflate it.”
“I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.”
“... omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori.”
“It took more than science to make hope real.”
“People may say many negative things about love, but it will remain the most beautiful sensation and strongest emotion ever felt. Love opens sky, makes the sun shine at midnight, stops time, and cur...”
“Hope is one of our central emotions, but we are often at a loss when asked to define it. Many of us confuse hope with optimism, a prevailing attitude that "things turn out for the best." But hope d...”
“I knew a young fellow once, who was studying to play the bagpipes, and you would be surprised at the amount of opposition he had to contend with. Why, not even from the members of his own family di...”
“George got out his banjo after supper, and wanted to play it, but Harris objected: he said he had got a headache, and did not feel strong enough to stand it. George thought the music might do him g...”
“Be inspired by the goodness in people and not their flaws.”
“All I wanted was you. I tore down my wall for you. Now it's been rebuilt.”
“(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices all around them--the soft singing of the water...”
“We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.”
“We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.”
