It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Robert Hutchings GoddardTag: science inspirational future hope dream
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed. That’s about it. Right now I'm living in that hope, running down its hallway and touching the walls on both sides.
Barbara KingsolverTag: hope
He cursed himself for having assumed the weather would be sunny. Perhaps it was the result of evolution, he thought--some adaptive gene that allowed the English to go on making blithe outdoor plans in the face of almost certain rain.
Helen SimonsonTag: rain hope evolution weather englishmen
Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.
Wallace StegnerTag: hope
Don't die on me," she ordered. "You are not dying on me."
"Yes, ma'am." He felt light-headed, but she was about the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen. Her hair was smoldering. Her face was smudged with soot. She had a cut on her arm, her dress was torn, and she was missing a boot. Beautiful.
Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon.
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: hope mercy sin values nobility-of-spirit gluttony good-deeds envy
I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine.
Elizabeth GaskellTag: love hope unrequited-love
Hope attracts chances.
Toba BetaIf there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?
Yann MartelTag: inspiration humanity religion hope
Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe.
Thomas HardyTag: life hope thomas-hardy betrayed tess-of-the-d-urbervilles durbyfield
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