Dashed Hope Quotes

#1. Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Seamus Heaney

#2. I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.

Clive Sinclair

#3. Toughness has nothing to do with size, physical strength or athleticism. Toughness is A SKILL that can be developed & improved.

Jay Bilas

#4. To have my hopes raised and dashed again, it's like cold steel twisting in my gut.

Paula Hawkins

#5. Scraps of love
torn and tattered
faded, scattered
trashed
threads of hope
frayed and tangled
broken, mangled
dashed
backing, buttons
yarn and batting
quilted tenderly
wrapped up in
this warm repair
my patchwork family

Wendelin Van Draanen

#6. We need more cartoonists to truly retire when they retire, and not run repeats.

Stephan Pastis

#7. And you know, it was like I was breathing my own self back into me to say these word,s to remember that these things existed
the green trees of the eastern woodland at home in North America, their strong and supple branches, sunlight through the trees.

Elizabeth Wein

#8. O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.

Helen Hunt Jackson

#9. I think in the '70s that there was a general feeling of chaos, a feeling that the idea of the '60s as 'ideal' was a misnomer. Nothing seemed ideal anymore. Everything seemed in-between.

David Bowie

#10. Hope can turn ugly when it's dashed over and over.

Ella James

#11. I pour another drink and wash the taste of dashed dreams from the back of my tongue. I feel half-dead, but my broken heart somehow still beats. What a stubborn, senseless organ, to keep going when all hope and happiness are lost.

Julie Johnson

#12. Hopes are so well constructed, so monstrously dashed!

Emma Richler

#13. I'm the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pieces than wisely keep my expectations at bay and hope they are exceeded. This quality has made me a needy and theatrical friend, but has given me a spectacularly dramatic emotional life.

Mindy Kaling

#14. Unfortunately, the thing about running, the thing about trying to start over - eventually that hope is dashed by your past coming up to greet you like the fires of hell

Rachel Van Dyken

#15. The West was a wonderful world to me. I decided then that if this is the way they did things, then I wanted to be part of it.

Angela Merkel

#16. Epiphanies awaken the soul.

A.D. Posey

#17. I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.

E. M. Forster

#18. Personally, I don't give a toss about French viewers. I make films for foreigners - it's a bit like Ken Loach, who's not very popular in England but has had a lot of success in France. Cinema is always an experience in a foreign body.

Bruno Dumont

#19. Faith is not a feeling, she says. It's a set of actions. By taking the actions, you demonstrate more faith than somebody who actually has experienced the rewards of prayer and so feels hope.

Mary Karr

#20. That was a time of innocence, a time when life was on hold. When life was carefree. The only expectation was to be a good boy. No grand ambitions. No long-range goals to mold your existence around. Not then.

Jared C. Wilson

#21. No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.

George Bernard Shaw

#22. Get a feedback loop and listen to it ... When people give you feedback, cherish it and use it.

Randy Pausch

#23. When one has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.

Robin Hobb

#24. The process of living, for each of us, is pretty similar. For every gain there is a setback. For every success, a failure. For every moment of joy, a time of sadness. For every hope realized, one is dashed.

Sue Atchley Ebaugh

#25. Creativity becomes more visible when adults try to be more attentive to the cognitive processes of children than to the results they achieve in various fields of doing and understanding.

Loris Malaguzzi