#hope

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#believed #change #desperation #drastic #drastic change

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me. ↗

— Richard Francis Burton

#attendant #clubs #dozen #enemy #energetic

My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#discovered #get #greatest #hope #sitcom

The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful. ↗

— Chaka Fattah

#nature #optimistic #their

We go through the whole season working on next season's car and developing the car and making sure we fit in the car and all that sort of stuff. And we obviously give ideas of what we would hope next year's car would have even if it's small things like buttons on the steering wheel and different positions and whatever. ↗

— Jenson Button

#buttons #car #developing #different #even

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#american #american people #half #hopes #never

I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#been #best #century #congress #despair

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all. ↗

— Lord Byron

#fall #fear #freed #hath #himself

The great hope of society is in individual character. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#great #great hope #hope #individual #society

I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense. ↗

— Oded Fehr

#hope #i #i think #life #look