Top 76 Quotes About Dangerous Hope
#1. Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity.
Alessandra Torre
#2. 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
#3. I know too well how dangerous hope can be, how it grows and sometimes dies, taking its host with it. It's more powerful than anything Dr.Fibs keeps in his labs, more precious than all the secrets inside Sublevel Two.
Ally Carter
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. Hope was a dangerous thing, something best squashed before it became contagious.
Cynthia Bond
#7. I'm beginning to think of hope as a dangerous, terrifying thing.
Tahereh Mafi
#8. A part of me so desperately wanted to believe it was possible, but the other part of me knew that holding on to false hope can be a dangerous thing.
Autumn Doughton
#9. False hope is a dangerous tool to employ
E.J. Swift
#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. Hope was a dangerous thing, I knew, but it didn't stop your heart from latching on to it like a life raft.
Karina Halle
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to their brothers and sisters, inspiring them to follow their example.
Huey Newton
#15. Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is.
Lauren DeStefano
#16. I will always come home to you. I won't lie and tell you what I do isn't dangerous sometimes, but I'm always careful, and now, with you, I have a whole new reason to stay safe. - Nico
Aurora Rose Reynolds
#17. 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
#18. So glad I decided not to take advantage of Mr. Dark and Dangerous. I look at Naomi, pause and throw Dax a wink that I hope he doesn't see. Grr, bitch, grr.
C.M. Stunich
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. A loosening in my chest, the faintest stirrings of hope. But hope was a dangerous, fragile thing, easily shattered. I couldn't afford it.
Erica O'Rourke
#22. 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
#23. I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.
Joel Osteen
#24. 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
#25. Only if we understand why and how certain kinds of economic controls tend to paralyze the driving forces of a free society, and which kinds of measures are particularly dangerous in this respect, can we hope that social experimentation will not lead us into situations none of us want.
Friedrich Hayek
#26. Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.
Laozi
#27. Hope is something that can be very dangerous but without it life would be horribly dry. Impossible, even.
Anthony Doerr
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. People without hope are a dangerous crowd, even in a republic.
Joe Abercrombie
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. No one should know his entire fate. It's too dangerous and too depressing. Just keep going, do your best, and hope it's good enough. That's all any of us can do.
Rick Riordan
#34. Hope, perhaps the most dangerous of all emotions and perhaps the most necessary.
Robert Ludlum
#35. The only legitimate basis of creative work lies in the courageous recognition of all the irreconcilable antagonisms that make our life so enigmatic, so burdensome, so fascinating, so dangerous - so full of hope.
Joseph Conrad
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
Patrick Ness
#40. 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
#41. Alone again. But not lonely. This was my fate. I'd reached a point so low that I actually stopped wishing for relief. Hope was dangerous. Giving up was self-preservation. I was better off trusting no one.
Riley Jean
#42. 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
#43. People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Edmund Burke
#44. So why was his stomach tightening and twisting with every step up those stairs? Because hope was a dangerous thing. It said the failure would be his own fault alone.
Kelley Armstrong
#45. I can only hope the federal aid made available today will be sufficient in our recovery efforts, and pray that our citizens continue to be safe from the fallout of this dangerous natural disaster.
Mike Rogers
#46. 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
#47. It had been wishful thinking, plain and simple, dangerous for me to indulge in. Hope, happiness and freedom were not in my future.
Maria V. Snyder
#48. Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered.
Bentley Little
#49. It's important for me to have hope because that's my job as a parent, to have hope, for my kids, that we're not going to leave them in a world that's in shambles, that's a chaotic place, that's a dangerous place.
James Cameron
#50. As he slipped the lock into place again he realized his hand was trembling. He held up his shaky fingers where he could see them better and wondered at the equally weak flutter in his chest.
Hope was a dangerous, disquieting thing, but he thought perhaps he liked it.
Nora Sakavic
#51. Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.
Stephen King
#52. Spiders are anti-social, keep pests under control, and mostly mind their own business, but they somehow summon fear in humans who are far more dangerous, deceitful and have hurt more people. Of the two I'm more suspicious about the latter.
Donna Lynn Hope
#53. No matter where I look, my walls are crumbling, and this damned girl keeps presenting me with the most dangerous element of all.
Hope.
Lauren Layne
#54. Free of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope, free of mountainous wanting.
Rumi
#56. 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
#57. He knew even at an early age of seven, how dangerous it was for someone like him to have hope. He knows how to have no expectations. He can completely control not just what he wants, but what he needs
Alice Hoffman
#58. 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
#60. 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
#62. 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
#64. It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.
Harold Bloom
#66. 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
#67. Those who take risks and dare are considered dangerous by those who fear.
Debasish Mridha
#68. You have a way of looking at things. You make it seem as though everything's going to be okay. I can't imagine a more dangerous thing to have than hope like yours.
Lauren DeStefano
#69. 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
#71. We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.
Abraham Lincoln
#72. This boy wore the ocean in his eyes, green-gray-blue, ever shifting, and I recognized him immediately. Knew before he said another word that he was as dangerous as he was beautiful.
Sarah Ockler
#73. Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.
Cinda Williams Chima
#74. Hope could be painful, too. Hope could be dangerous, if it grew too large and then shattered.
Kat Zhang
#75. Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.
Suzanne Collins
#76. If it's danger you seek you can go to war, blow the whistle on someone powerful, piss off someone unhinged, walk in a field during a lightning storm, tease a rattlesnake, or lose yourself in the right embrace. Some people live for it, others suffer in spite of it.
Donna Lynn Hope
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