Quotes & Sayings About Hopes Being Crushed

I was a supporter and believer in the death penalty, but I've begun to see that this system doesn't work and it isn't functional. It costs an obscene amount of money. — Gil Garcetti

When the light of God's truth begins to find its way through the mists of illusion and self-deception with which we have unconsciously surrounded ourselves, and when the image of God within us begins to return to itself, the false self which we inherited from Adam begins to experience the strange panic that Adam felt when, after his sin, he hid in the trees of the garden because he heard the voice of the Lord God in the afternoon.
If we are to recover our own identity, and return to God by the way Adam came in his fall, we must learn to stop saying: "I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked. And I hid." [Genesis 2:10] We must cast away the "aprons of leaves" and the "garments of skins" which the Fathers of the Church variously interpret as passions, and attachments to earthly things, and fixation in our own rigid determination to be someone other than our true selves. — Thomas Merton

One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity. — Immanuel Kant

They make decisions; they mold your future. The trick is to find a way to still be you through it all. — Sara Raasch

You've been popping into the fire every hour?' Harry said, half laughing.
'Just for a few seconds to check if the coast was clear. — J.K. Rowling

War is Hell you can NOT refine it! — William Tecumseh Sherman

Morality cannot replace goodness.
Knowledge cannot replace wisdom.
Fame cannot replace honor.
Pleasure cannot replace contentment.
Passion cannot replace love. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I don't relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do. — Sylvester McCoy

That's my personality - to end up taking the hardest road possible to get to the top. But I think I will get there. — Cub Swanson

The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together. — T. S. Eliot

The mind is like the wind and the body like the sand: if you want to know how the wind is blowing , you can look at the sand. — Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

The living grave of crime. — Joaquin Miller

The only simplicity for which I would give a straw is that which is on the other side of the complex - not that which never has divined it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

An ad for cigars appears in 100,000 newspapers; sales of that brand increase by 3% for a short time thereafter. A new play receives a viciously negative review in a theatrical journal that prints 500 copies; the playwright shoots himself. Who's the better writer? — Jason Lutes