Withering Hope Quotes

#1. Maybe a large, single dose of pain now is better than the slow, burning pain of withering hope.

Rae Carson

#2. You'd better touch me before something happens spontaneously that makes me look embarrassingly desperate."
"Really?" He lowered just close enough for his chest to graze the fabric covering her bra, squeezing a squeak from her throat. "I'd like to watch that. You're making abstinence sound fun.

Brynn Kelly

#3. I didn't care because what mattered is that Dante's voice felt real. And I felt real. Until Dante, being with other people was the hardest thing in the world for me. But Dante made talking and living and feeling seem like all those things were perfectly natural. Not in my world, they weren't.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#4. All I have is withering perception. Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate.

James Ellroy

#5. You use the fairies where you find them.

Nora Roberts

#6. I wrote a play once called 'Lobby Hero,' which I thought turned out very well, but there's no final version of it. I published the one we produced, but there are seven other versions with different variations sitting in my desk at home.

Kenneth Lonergan

#7. Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often.

Earl Weaver

#8. Coming back from doing 'The Hobbit,' you think 'Sherlock' is realistic, but of course, it's not that realistic.

Martin Freeman

#9. When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.

Stewart Brand

#10. Our sufferings may be hard to bear, but they teach us lessons which, in turn, equip and enable us to help others.

Billy Graham

#11. Let us come together and think of ways India does not have to import but we export to the world.

Narendra Modi

#12. Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening.

Dana Gioia

#13. Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.

Agnes De Mille