Unhoping Quotes & Sayings

I do respect your j-j--" She stopped and shook her head impatiently at the sound of her own stammer. "My husband has the right to make the decision for himself."
Sebastian curled his fingers into the folds of her skirts. The stammer was a clear sign of her inner anxiety, but she would not yield. She would stand by him. He sighed unsteadily and relaxed, feeling as if his tarnished soul had been delivered into her keeping. — Lisa Kleypas

Some people grow under responsibility; others swell. — Henrietta C. Mears

I am a little bit of a softie, yes. Actually I don't think it's softness, I think it's kindness. — Len Goodman

Dude, you scared the hell out of us. We thought you were a goner." Harper rocked his head on the pillow. "Nah. Takes more than a couple bullets to take me out." Chad laughed. "I remember you saying you were an iron man when we hired you, but I didn't think you were telling the truth." Harper — J.M. Madden

Sometimes from out the folded paper the pale clerk takes a ring - the finger it was meant for, perhaps, moulders in the grave; a bank-note sent in swiftest charity - he whom it would relieve, nor eats nor hungers any more; pardon for those who died despairing; hope for those who died unhoping; good tidings for those who died stifled by unrelieved calamities. On errands of life, these letters speed to death.
Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity! — Herman Melville

I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos. — Chuck Palahniuk

Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone to a pallid hopelessness, can any business seem more fitted to heighten it than that of continually handling these dead letters and assorting them for the flames? For by the cart-load they are annually burned. Sometimes from out the folded paper the pale clerk takes a ring: - the finger it was meant for, perhaps, moulders in the grave; a bank-note sent in swiftest charity: - he whom it would relieve, nor eats nor hungers any more; pardon for those who died despairing; hope for those who died unhoping; good tidings for those who died stifled by unrelieved calamities. On errands of life, these letters speed to death. 250
Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity! — Herman Melville

I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to Heaven, no one will be able to say, 'I merited this.' — Dallas Willard

How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!
Up in the air and over the wall,
Till I can see so wide,
River and trees and cattle and all
Over the countryside.
Till I look down on the garden green,
Down on the roof so brown-
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down! — Robert Louis Stevenson

He won't last the winter if we stay here, though, Mousefur — Erin Hunter

When I catch sight of my reflection in the mirror, — Magda Alexander

If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well. — Gore Vidal

What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one. — Albert Einstein

I'm not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition. — Daniela Ruah

We are all equally capable of spiritual awakening. It may not seem that way, at times. Some of us are so caught up in the drama of our day-to-day existence that we have lost track of who we really are. But eventually, all of us will make the discovery of our true nature. — Victor Shamas

I played in bombed-out houses and grew up with the ever-present consequences of a lost war and the awareness that my own country had inflicted terrible pain on many nations during the horrific World War II. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf