Solnit On Hopefulness Quotes

#1. You've felt it, haven't you? Those feelings that seem to get so big in your chest, like something is so beautiful it aches?

Heather Anastasiu

#2. Some folks locked the doors of their hearts when they lost someone. Others kept the doors and the windows open, letting memory and love pass through freely. And maybe that was the way it was supposed to be, Harold thought.

Jason Mott

#3. Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.

D. V. Ager

#4. I don't expect perfection, I expect excellence. I expect 100 percent effort in all you do.

Steven D. Levitt

#5. American travel seems to need an advocate.

Gloria Steinem

#6. William Stegner ... coined the term 'the geography of hope,' countering the argument that wilderness preservation served elites with the assertion that wilderness could be a place in which everyone could locate their hopefulness even if few actually entered it.

Rebecca Solnit

#7. Hopefulness is risky, since it is after all a form of trust, trust in the unknown and the possible, even in discontinuity. To be hopeful is to take on a different persona, one that risks disappointment, betrayal...

Rebecca Solnit

#8. The thing I notice first about a woman is her walk. A beautiful woman is like a race horse-slim, sleek and with a beautiful carriage.

Dean Martin

#9. And you ma'am, are pure sweetness and light!" He grinned slowly. He mocked her in return, but he was surprisingly, wickedly handsome.

Heather Graham

#10. Life is too precious to waste it with the wrong person. You're better off alone until the right one comes along.

Tony Gaskins

#11. But then, I didn't think I'd tell them you were here." "What makes you think they don't know?" I asked, beginning to feel rather hollow, despite my earlier resolve to brazen it out. I cast a quick glance at the window, but

Diana Gabaldon

#12. ISIL are already using the Internet for hideous propaganda purposes - for radicalisation, for operational planning, too.

George Osborne

#13. The way out is the way through.

L. Ron Hubbard

#14. I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear the recordings.

Meg White