Stopped Hoping Quotes

#1. Where do we find happiness? We pursue it, search for it, kill ourselves trying to find it, and all the time it's just here ... It comes just when we've stopped expecting anything, stopped hoping, stopped being afraid.

Irene Nemirovsky

#2. You will be back by then Ellen, wont you? I'm keeping this notebook safe for you because I want to believe you'll read it someday, and you'll know I never stopped hoping you'd come home.

Natasha Mac A'Bhaird

#3. American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.

Dave Barry

#4. Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve.

John Edward Williams

#5. Though the rain had pitter-pattered, then pelted the carriages during the drive had stopped, the ground was wet and boggy, sucking at feet as though hoping to keep anyone from ever leaving the estate.

Jessica Lawson

#6. The end of Humanism stems from the power of Humanism itself.

Franco Berardi, Bifo

#7. The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half and the seed of an apple in half in put those two halves together and planted the seed, hoping a very strange tree might grow. And I never stopped.

Yoko Ono

#8. He could hope for many things, though he had stopped doing so long ago. If one didn't hope, then disappointment didn't visit. Hoping meant you had somehting to live for, and living for something or someone else was asking for pain. -Nik

Lora Leigh

#9. I remember writing 'All I Want Is You' and hoping it would get me out of trouble. I haven't stopped writing songs or getting into trouble since.

Cheyenne Kimball

#10. I want to run with the best, that's how I've always lived.

Tyson Gay

#11. I have neither one nor the other, and that has been going on for so long now that I have stopped wondering whether it is hate or love which gives us the strength to continue this life of lies, which provides the formidable energy that allows us to go on suffering, and hoping.

Georges Perec

#12. England is governed not by logic but by parliament.

Benjamin Disraeli

#13. The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste.

Fulton J. Sheen

#14. The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#15. The rewards are great if one succeeds but the rewards are great only because so few succeed.

Og Mandino

#16. There is no closure for this. Closure is for buildings, not people.

James Renner