quotes on hope

Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car is the sound of toll change in the ashtray. The absence of telltale tobacco stains on your shirt collar tells the tale - you've licked the smoking habit. ~Robert Brault, 1973, www.robertbrault.com


There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. ~Rebecca West (Cicily Maxwell Andrews), "The Harsh Voice," There Is No Conversation, 1935


Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake. ~Carl Jung


History is who we are and why we are the way we are. ~David McCullough


The great men of science are supreme artists. ~Martin H. Fischer


Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963


Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly. ~Benjamin Franklin


We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived. ~June Jordan


If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one. ~Andy Rooney


A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. ~Leonard Bernstein, The New York Times, 30 October 1988


Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. ~Pete Seeger


The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. ~Ross MacDonald


I have never resisted the lord in my life, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have to make up his part as well as my own. ~Orson Scott Card


Golf is like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously, it's no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart. ~Arthur Daley


You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance. ~Lavetta Sue Wegman


Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. ~Doug Larson


If you can't hear the angels, try quieting the static of worry. ~Terri Guillemets


The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau


In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it. ~Author Unknown


Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson