“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
— George Eliot
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“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
— George Eliot
Author: George Eliot
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“I spent four months in Prague in these blue rooms reacting to nothing and you basically place your faith in the hands of the director and the special effects co-coordinator and you keep your fingers crossed and hope that the creatures look really scary.”
— Edward Burns
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“I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.”
— Henning Mankell
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“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.”
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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“The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”
— Samuel Johnson
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“I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.”
— Craig Ferguson
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“Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world, to people of all faiths and backgrounds, with his powerful belief in the human spirit.”
— Jerry Costello
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“My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.”
— Jim Henson
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“Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.”
— Loretta Lynn
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“To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.”
— Erich Fromm
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“Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.”
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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