famous quotes on hope

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton



Skipping: the ultimate display of nonconformity. ~Jessi Lane Adams



Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead, - from human souls whom we never saw, who lived perhaps thousands of miles away; and yet these, on those little sheets of paper, speak to us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers. ~Charles Kingsley



The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through. ~Alexis de Tocqueville



Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel. ~Buffy Sainte-Marie



The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. ~Pamela Hansford Johnson



Patriotism, the virtue of the vicious. ~Oscar Wilde



The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public. ~From the movie Tommy Boy



Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes. ~James Russell Lowell



Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you. ~Edward Payson Rod



Golf seems to me an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dogs out. ~Princess Anne of Great Britain



Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. ~Zen Proverb



An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb



The adrenal gland has a very peculiar way of slowing down when it has been overtaxed and overburdened. It fails in the manner of a large dying star, which gets brighter and brighter before it burns out. ~Karilee and Richard Shames, Feeling Fat, Fuzzy, or Frazzled?, 2005



Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~Spanish Proverb



Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan



The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant is alone enough to upset Darwin. ~Henry Adams, Education, 1907



When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep, and you're never really awake. ~Fight Club movie, screenplay by Jim Uhls, directed by David Fincher, novel by Chuck Palahniuk