Best 358 quotes in «hopeless quotes» category

In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.

Intention is for achievers. Hope is for the hopeless.

I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which breaks the linear-Aristotelian trance. National Lampoon, Scientific American are what I read most obsessively.

It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town.

Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.

Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.

Nothing is insoluble. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there's life.

Only for the sake of the hopeless ones have we been given hope.

People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless.

Planning anything is hopeless.

Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.

Satan--the impersonation of that mixture of the bestial, the malignant, the impious, and the hopeless, which constitute the fiend--the enemy of all that is human and divine.

The doctrine of grace and redemption keeps us from seeing any person or situation as hopeless.

...it is only death which is hopeless.

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

It's sadness coming on like the old days, the vast seamless hopeless weight of sadness looking for a place to rest.

It was hopeless. She was flawless. She was a sunbeam. Mosca gave up and got on with hating her.

I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.

I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.

Looking at them now, thought Jim, you'd never believe they weren't in love with each other, and not with a hopeless, doomed obsession like poor Isabel Meredith. This was what love ought to be like: playful and passionate and teasing, and dangerous, too, with sharp intelligence in it.

My assignment is to take my situation and to use it to help others who feel hopeless and/or helpless because of loss.

Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.

None wise dares hopeless venture.

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches.

Once again, the hopeless cowardly Americans were back to repeat their cowardly act hiding behind a technological advance that God, most gracious, wanted it to be their curse and cause for shame.

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.

Surrender is a positive, healthy state. Being a surrendered person does not mean one is beaten down and so hopeless he or she has "given up." It's quite the contrary. Surrender is a state of living in the flow, trusting what is, and being open to serendipity and surprises.

Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists on behaving like television. . . .

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

The hopeless don't revolt, because revolution is an act of hope.

The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

There are no hopeless situations, sweetheart, only people who have grown hopeless about them. You still have choices you can make.

There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so... their position is almost laughably hopeless.

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything." and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyways. Either way, nothing happens.

There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art.

The situation is hopeless, we must take the next step.

The world will be brighter and wiser without religions, but it will surely be darker and more hopeless without God!