Despaireth Quotes & Sayings

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on — Theodore Roosevelt

If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can't, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you'd be a very strange person indeed. — Margaret Atwood

There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules. — George Will

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success. — Edmund Burke

Envy, slothful vice,
Never makes its way in lofty characters,
But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls
Close to the ground. — Ovid

O Lord, have Mercy and Compassion, for if Thou dost not have Mercy, who will have mercy?" The heartfelt prayer of this simple pilgrim epitomizes the quintessential Islamic attitude toward God as the source of compassion and mercy. No matter what one has done in life, one should never lose hope in His Compassion and Mercy, for as the Quran states, "And who despaireth of the Mercy of his Lord save those who go astray" (15:56), and "Do not despair of God's Mercy" (39:53). — Seyyed Hossein Nasr

My friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost. — Nick Hornby

Parents often yell and nag, instead of allowing their children to reap the natural consequences of their behavior. Parenting with love and limits, with warmth and consequences, produces confident children who have a sense of control over their lives. — Henry Cloud

When you get onstage, you can see everyone in the audience's face, down to the detail. You can see who may or may not be yawning. — Jim Rash

People should cool down a little bit and not look at the people in the other party as enemies. — Joe Lieberman

It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard. — Dorothy Parker

Labor is life! 'Tis the still water faileth;
Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth;
Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth. — Frances Sargent Osgood

Maybe warner was right all along, maybe he and i were perfect for each other. — Tahereh Mafi

I will walk to the end with my SS501 members. — Kim Hyun-joong

Prying out a stump reminded him of how deeply a tree clung to the ground, how tenacious a hold it had on a place. Though he was not a sentimental man - he did not cry when his children died, he simply dug the graves and buried them - James was silent each time he killed a tree, thinking of its time spent in that spot. He never did this with the animals he hunted - they were food, and transient, passing through this world and out again, as people did. But trees felt permanent - until you had to cut them down. — Tracy Chevalier

One gives way to the temptation, only to rise from it again, afterwards, with a great eagerness to reestablish one's dignity, as if it were a tombstone to place on the grave of one's shame, and a monument to hide and sign the memory of our weaknesses. Everybody's in the same case. Some folks haven't the courage to say certain things, that's all!
THE STEP-DAUGHTER: All appear to have the courage to do them though. — Luigi Pirandello

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. — Confucius