Posts Tagged ‘Hope’
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.
Zora Neale Hurston
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen
Weep for the lives your wishes never led.
Wystan Hugh Auden
If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you’re bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, And blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven’t a chance.
William S. Gilbert
Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest: Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers: Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers!
William S. Gilbert
To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
William Hazlitt
If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators.
William Hazlitt
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
William James "Will" Durant
There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won’t.
William Least Heat Moon
He has no hope who never had a fear.
William Cowper