Hope Is Dangerous Quotes

#1. Hope is dangerous.

Allison Van Diepen

#2. Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is just fine as long as its contained.

Robert Ludlum

#3. Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.

Gayle Forman

#4. To hope is to gamble. It's to bet on your futures, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than gloom and safety. To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk.

Rebecca Solnit

#5. Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.

Suzanne Collins

#6. I feel worse than I have ever done before, because now I know that it is easier to take a country into war than to bring it to live at peace, and a country at war is a bitter place to live, a risky place to have daughters, and a dangerous place to hope for a son.

Philippa Gregory

#7. Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages of dangerous medicine but through an honest reckoning of the self.

Dennis Lehane

#8. Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?

Tariq Ramadan

#9. The Eucharist has been preempted and redefined in dualistic thinking that leaves the status quo of the world untouched, so congregations can take the meal without raising questions of violence; the outcome is a "colonized imagination" that is drained of dangerous hope.

Walter Brueggemann

#10. From the shore, the ocean is forever. It's a beautiful, dangerous place. Music is tied to the sea, born from the struggle, looking for hope. Because hope belongs in the dark places.

Jon Foreman

#11. False hope is a dangerous tool to employ

E.J. Swift

#12. I love my life because a part of me has learned how to give up hope, and that, I suspect, is a dangerous lesson to unlearn.

Joel Derfner

#13. To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.

Samuel Johnson

#14. Love is always dangerous. To love is to hope you'll win it all while running the risk that you could lose it all. And sometimes it's also about accepting that there's a risk that you'll love more than you are loved.

Guillaume Musso

#15. A Greek has twenty-five centuries of painful history to keep is dreams in check, but there's nothing more dangerous than to give an American hope.

Ian Caldwell

#16. All accusation is of the devil, no matter where it comes from. It is just as dangerous to accuse others as it is to give the accuser room in your own life. The accuser gives no hope. God does not accuse us, but He does give us promptings that bring light and hope.

Esther Smith

#17. A swamp is where Gators live. We feel comfortable there, but we hope our opponents feel tentative. A swamp is hot and sticky and can be dangerous. Only Gators get out alive.

Steve Spurrier

#18. the United States decided it was not going to intervene in Syria - at least for the time being. The Syrian opposition felt betrayed and abandoned. Worse, Syrians were now completely without hope, which is the most dangerous human condition. A man or woman with no hope is capable of anything.

Richard Engel

#19. The world is a dangerous place, but there is no better world. Remember, every one of us is responsible to make it a joyful place.

Debasish Mridha

#20. Hope is something that can be very dangerous but without it life would be horribly dry. Impossible, even.

Anthony Doerr

#21. Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.

Laozi

#22. Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is.

Lauren DeStefano

#23. One of the lessons that I hope people will take out is the extreme dependence simply on the financial sector is really dangerous.

Juan Enriquez

#24. Weak and needy people finding their hope in Christ's grace are what mark a mature relationship. The most dangerous aspect of your relationships is not your weakness, but your delusions of strength.

Tim Lane And Paul Tripp

#25. I hope you achieve what you two are trying to do," Rick said. "Just remember, the answer is almost never where everyone else has been looking. And the answer is almost always covered up by some kind of danger.

Rich Hoffman

#26. Silent. So it should be. You have no place in this world, Luthiel. And there is no other.' Zalos reached out and lifted a few strands of her hair. 'Bright songs and the magic of hope are but a dangerous illusion. The fake comfort of witches charms.

Robert Fanney

#27. Because nothing is more dangerous than hope

Jennifer Donnelly

#28. I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me.

Benjamin Franklin

#29. But still, my heart beats. It dreams. It wonders. And most dangerous of all, it hopes, because despite its smallness, this hope is still a great something

Emalynne Wilder

#30. Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.

Cinda Williams Chima

#31. Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity.

Alessandra Torre

#32. I wondered if all a person could hope for was illusion and luck, for I was forced to conclude that the world was fundamentally and appallingly dangerous. It is a lesson I will never forget.

Charlotte Rogan

#33. The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.

Claude Debussy

#34. I hope you're very careful working, eating and drinking when the heat is so great
there are temptations there which at home you are free from
beware the juicy fruits, and the cooling ades, and cordials, and do not eat ice-cream, it is so very dangerous.

Emily Dickinson

#35. Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.

Stephen King

#36. Powerlessness is dangerous. For most of us, the inability to affect change is a desperate feeling. We need resilience and hope and a spirit that can carry us through the doubt and fear. We need to believe that we can effect change if we want to live and love with our whole hearts.

Brene Brown

#37. It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A person that has nothing to lose is the scariest person on earth.

Shannon L. Alder