Hopes Dashed Quotes

#1. 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

#2. There was a time when I prayed to saints. What I liked about them were their humble beginnings: they were human, once, and so you knew that they just got it in a way Jesus never would. They understood what it meant to have your hopes dashed or your promises broken or you feelings hurt.

Jodi Picoult

#3. The worst mistake that a statesman can make is to promise victory and to see it dashed, the hopes dashed.

Winston Churchill

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

Seamus Heaney

#5. It will always feel better when it stops hurting.

Richard Murray

#6. Don't ever second-guess a strong feeling that you have. Trust your gut.

Allison DuBois

#7. Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.

E.F. Schumacher

#8. Damn it. I wilted beside her, all my hopes and dreams of being a pimp dashed against the cruel rocks of reality. And an unwilling ho.

Darynda Jones

#9. While death and darkness girdle me
I grope for immortality.

Lionel Johnson

#10. This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins'.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#11. 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

#12. A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

E.W. Howe

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

Emma Richler

#14. Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.

Baruj Benacerraf

#15. I will either adamantly prioritize my agendas at the expense of the truth, or I will consistently bring my agendas into unrelenting obedience to the truth. And if for some reason you're trying to determine who I truly am, the choice I make will tell you.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#16. Think of the Christmas present
of gashes you opened when, in an attempt
to be Superman, you slid in stocking feet
on a slippery wood floor and crashed
half way through a window. Hopes
of heroism dashed on the heels
of no clear sighting of Santa.

Kristen Henderson

#17. He had high hopes for society, and though his hopes were too often dashed, he remained a raging optimist.

Randy Pausch

#18. The day's dashed hopes had temporarily reduced her to the childish presumption that someone she loved should, in return for that love, be able to read her mind.

Myla Goldberg

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

Paula Hawkins

#20. When hopes of reform are dashed, people will rise up and seek revolution,

Xu Zhiyong

#21. once your get your hopes up, your mind starts acting on its own. And when your hopes are dashed you get dissapointed, and dissapointment leads to a feeling of helplessness. You get careless and let your guard down. And right now, she though, that si the last thing I can afford.

Haruki Murakami

#22. The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity.

Andrea Camilleri

#23. What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.

Jonathan Sacks

#24. Placing my head on my knees, I let the irrational tears fall unrestrained. I am crying over the loss of something I never had. How ridiculous. Mourning something that never was - my dashed hopes, my dashed dreams, and my soured expectations.

E.L. James

#25. You ... you've been here quite a long time, haven't you?
What? Oh ... yes. Ever since I married What's-her-name. Uh, Martha. Even before that. Forever. Dashed hopes, and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested. How do you like that for a declension, young man?

Edward Albee

#26. Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.

Edward Albee

#27. Nothing has stolen more dreams, dashed more hopes, broken up more families, and messed up more people psychologically than our propensity to disregard God's commands regarding sexual purity.

Andy Stanley

#28. The artist after all is a solitary being.

Virginia Woolf

#29. My dashed hopes putt-putted bravely to life once more, like a bug that gets stomped on but keeps pulling itself across the floor.

Davy Rothbart

#30. When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'

Dick Van Dyke

#31. Now his hopes were dashed to shit, because she wasn't going to implicate Trigga in Kenyon's murder. She couldn't.

Leo Sullivan

#32. Yet if we are to live fully, we must love as though we've never been hurt, dream as though our hopes have never been dashed, and take steps toward the future as though life has never given us pain.

Rhonda Britten

#33. I sense that the road to Heaven is paved with dashed hopes.

Michael Leunig

#34. Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.

Robert Breault

#35. From open sea she's chosen me
and dashed the hopes of many.
A life with her is worth the hopes
my love for her may bury.

Uzoma C. Azuonye

#36. For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.

Haley Joel Osment