Hopeless famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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That the situation appears hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best.
-- Aldo Leopold -
I'm a hopeless romantic, I say very loudly and proudly. I get a lot of stick for it.
-- Alex Pettyfer -
There are no hopeless situations, sweetheart, only people who have grown hopeless about them. You still have choices you can make.
-- Andy Andrews -
I just wanted to fit in as a teenager, but it was hopeless.
-- Anne Beatts -
The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
-- Anne Lamott -
Without Montreal, Canada would be hopeless.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.
-- Ayn Rand -
I'm really hopeless with technology - I don't even have a computer.
-- Ben Whishaw -
I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.
-- Bill Ayers -
With God life is an endless hope. Without God, life is a hopeless end.
-- Bill Bright -
Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.
-- Bob Black -
Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is)... Continue seeking Him with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.
-- Carl Rogers -
You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.
-- Carlos Ghosn -
In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
-- Charles Babbage -
Hopeless situations are never hopeless to God.
-- Chip Ingram -
I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic.
-- Chris Lowell -
I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.
-- Chuck Close -
Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death
-- Cressida Cowell -
And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless.
-- Danielle Steel -
This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.
-- Deborah Copaken -
At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.
-- Donald Pleasence -
It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.
-- Edward Sapir -
We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.
-- Elizabeth Berg -
I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down.
-- Elizabeth Smart -
Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside you say, Why are they still married?
-- Eric Braeden -
If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.
-- Erika Slezak -
Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.
-- Fernando Pessoa -
It was hopeless. She was flawless. She was a sunbeam. Mosca gave up and got on with hating her.
-- Frances Hardinge -
I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got.
-- Freddie Mercury -
I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.
-- Gary Numan -
Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.
-- George Gissing -
No fight is hopeless till it has been fought.
-- George R. R. Martin -
I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals ....
-- Gertrude Bell -
The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.
-- Gideon Welles -
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton -
If God is not with us, we do not want to continue. If the Sermon on the Mount is simply impractical, our mission work is hopeless. We have no backup plan. We have nothing but Him.
-- Heidi Baker -
The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world muddled through; at each epoch the world was lost, and at each epoch it was saved.
-- Jacques Maritain -
I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do.
-- Jan Egeland -
It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.
-- Jane Jacobs -
Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.
-- Jeanette Winterson -
Indeed, God is always with us even when things look hopeless.
-- Jennifer Hudson -
I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.
-- Jeremy London -
When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
-- John Henry Newman -
Each time we act to improve the life of another person, we send forth a ripple of hope in what appears to be a hopeless society.
-- Joyce Meyer -
When lifes seems hopeless, rearrange things for a dose of dopeness.
-- Kid Cudi -
Education is the great equalizer of our time. It gives hope to the hopeless and creates chances for those without...
-- Kofi Annan -
Hopeless causes are the only ones worth fighting for. The fight for the taxpayer is the most hopeless of them all.
-- Larry Niven -
...it is only death which is hopeless.
-- Maria Jane McIntosh -
My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.
-- Meg Rosoff -
Life without hope, the slavery of mankind-a bondage so hopeless that slaves will no longer know they are slaves. Wealth without happiness, abundance without the power to enjoy it. The death of the spirit.
-- Mika -
It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.
-- Nancy Astor -
Dont ever lose hope. Even when life seems bleak and hopeless, know that you are not alone.
-- Nancy Reagan -
I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
-- Natascha McElhone -
There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so... their position is almost laughably hopeless.
-- Odell Shepard -
Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
-- Pema Chodron -
You can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.
-- Peter McWilliams -
Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.
-- Ralph Abernathy -
Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.
-- Randeep Hooda -
We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not cynical, we were not bitter.
-- Ray Stannard Baker -
Your life is in your hands. No matter where you are now, no matter what has happened in your life,you can begin to consciously choose your thoughts, and you can change your life.There is no such thing as a hopeless situation.Every single circumstance of your life can change!
-- Rhonda Byrne -
There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstances of your life can change!
-- Rhonda Byrne -
It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.
-- Richard Wagner -
Without the grace of Jesus: a hopeless end. With the grace of Jesus: an endless hope.
-- Rick Warren -
If you have felt hopeless, hold on! Wonderful changes are going to happen in your life as you begin to live it on purpose.
-- Rick Warren -
I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which breaks the linear-Aristotelian trance. National Lampoon, Scientific American are what I read most obsessively.
-- Robert Anton Wilson -
Intention is for achievers. Hope is for the hopeless.
-- Robert Kiyosaki -
Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.
-- Robert Smithson -
Once again, the hopeless cowardly Americans were back to repeat their cowardly act hiding behind a technological advance that God, most gracious, wanted it to be their curse and cause for shame.
-- Saddam Hussein -
I was the biggest, most hopeless and most violent drunk in baseball.
-- Sam McDowell -
The Christian religion is hopeless without the Holy Ghost.
-- Samuel Chadwick -
There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.
-- Sidney Poitier -
... hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history ...
-- Spiro T. Agnew -
Things are only hopeless when you lose all hope.
-- Stephen Goldin -
Everything we're singing about is true, and even when you take away all the glitz, it's still true in the darkest, ugliest and most hopeless places.
-- Steven Curtis Chapman -
I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.
-- Theodore Bikel -
They are quite hopeless - drooling, driveling, doleful, depressing, dropsical drips.
-- Thomas Beecham -
A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.
-- Thomas Merton -
It's sadness coming on like the old days, the vast seamless hopeless weight of sadness looking for a place to rest.
-- Tim Winton -
I'm a hopeless fu**ing romantic. That's a part of me that a lot of people don't know about. They know everything there is to know about another part of me, but not a thing about my heart.'- Tommy Lee
-- Tommy Lee -
Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.
-- Tony Blair -
Your situation and prospects only seem hopeless because you have ideas of hope. Knock off that hope and the crippling feelings of helplessness go with it.
-- U.G. Krishnamurti -
The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.
-- V. S. Pritchett -
I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless.
-- Whitney M. Young -
Men must be honest with themselves before they can be honest with others. A man who is not honest with himself presents a hopeless case.
-- William J. H. Boetcker -
Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
-- William Shakespeare -
There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything." and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyways. Either way, nothing happens."
-- Yvon Chouinard
