(52 quotes found)
“When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.”
Charles L. Allen
“Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.”
Leo Rosten
“If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.”
Walter F. Mondale
“Government [is] operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.”
Gerry Spence
“There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.”
Clare Boothe Luce
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.”
Maggie Smith
“In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest.”
Titus Livy
“None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.”
Goethe
“I think with our problems with hopelessness and cynicism that [the solution] ultimately has to come from the young people themselves. We've got to realize we are the future and we make of our future what we make of it, and ultimately we have to do it for ourselves.”
Chelsea Clinton