Best 358 quotes in «hopeless quotes» category

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

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.

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

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.

Planning anything is hopeless.

People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless.

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

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.

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

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. . . .

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.

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

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

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

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

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.

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.

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!

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.

Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death

We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.

We measure our success of love in the images of love. But those images are static. And it's a hopeless project, because our love will never be like that image. The actual reality of love in our lives is much more chaotic.

We found love in a hopeless place.

We feel like there are way too many problems in the world, and there's nothing we can do to solve them. We forget how to be compassionate and start to feel hopeless.

We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not cynical, we were not bitter.

When you go to Washington and get off at Union Station, as I sometimes do, and see the Capitol building, I get this hopeless feeling that comes over me.

Without Montreal, Canada would be hopeless.

With God life is an endless hope. Without God, life is a hopeless end.

Your life is in your hands. No matter where you are now, no matter what has happened in your life,you can begin to consciously choose your thoughts, and you can change your life.There is no such thing as a hopeless situation.Every single circumstance of your life can change!

You can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

You can always find contradictions and hope, in hopeless circumstances, and a sense of redemption in somebody who makes the same mistake, over and over. So far, so good. That's how I put it.

A broom that was almost never used was leaned up against the wall. He took it and started to sweep. Dust flew up his nose. When he had been sweeping for a while he realised he had no dustpan. He swept the pile of dust under the couch. Better to have a little shit in the corners than a clean hell. He flipped through the pages of a porno, put it back. Wound his scarf around his neck until his head felt like it was about to explode, released it. Got up and took a few steps on the rug. Sank to his knees, prayed to god.

Your situation and prospects only seem hopeless because you have ideas of hope. Knock off that hope and the crippling feelings of helplessness go with it.

Ağzıma o kadar odaklanmıştı ki, okuduğumun tek kelimesini bile duymadığını düşünüyordum. Kitabı kapatıp karnıma koydum. Kitabı kapattığımın bile farkında olduğunu sanmıyordum. "Neden konuşmayı kestin?" dedi, ne ifadesi değişmiş ne de bakışlarını dudaklarımdan ayırmıştı. "Konuşmak mı?" diye sordum merakla. "Holder, kitap okuyorum. Arada fark var. Ve görünüşe bakılırsa, hiç dikkat etmiyorsun." Gözlerimin içine bakıp sırıttı. "Ah, dikkat ediyorum," dedi. "Dudaklarına. Ağzından çıkan kelimelere dikkat etmemiş olabilirim, ama dudaklarına kesinlikle dikkat ediyordum.

A happy ending. Huh. I thought that was why we were here. Now. Five hundred years into Earth’s future. So we could start over, and live happily-ever-after. It wasn’t turning out that way, was it?