Misplaced Hope Quotes

#1. If I said what I was really thinking about this f**ked up world, the government would assassinate me like all the other people they've killed.

Lee Ryan

#2. Hope sustains life, but misplaced hope prolongs recessions.

James Grant

#3. If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Douglas Coupland

#4. It would require constant vigilance to not replace each person with my own fictional version of them.

Miranda July

#5. Ignorance is avoiding that which stands in front of me out of the misplaced hope that it will put what I'm ignoring behind me. Instead, it's most certain to drop it on top of me.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#6. Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.

Alan Moore

#7. Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines the appetite.

Auguste Escoffier

#8. What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope misplaced can devastate you.

James MacDonald

#9. ...an incomplete listing of anything reveals that a selection has been made, and any act of selection is of course political.

Christopher Priest

#10. I am choosing to explain them to you because I hope to fuck you in the future
" he placed careful emphasis on the word fuck "
and I don't want to do it with any misplaced expectations on your part.

Alessandra Torre

#11. It's the ambiguity that throws people; they want to know which box to put you in.

Sara Farizan

#12. It's not that I had more important things to do or that I didn't want to help with whatever problems were interfering with her students being successful - rather, it's this horrible truth that life has taught me: misplaced hope is the most devastatingly painful thing you can give someone.

Tucker Elliot

#13. Life is never going to be perfect, as much as we want it to be, and I have to lead by example.

Patsy Kensit

#14. Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced ... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

Charles Stanley

#15. But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.

Paul Berg

#16. It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.

Randy Harrison

#17. I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#18. One of the great dangers in political engagement is misplaced hope.

Shane Claiborne