Quotes 421 till 440 of 1861.
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Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.
Iowa Caucus Speech (3 jan 2008) -
Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.
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Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.
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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
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How wonderful it is that a thing so evident as the vanity of the world is so little known, that it is a strange and surprising thing to say that it is foolish to seek greatness!
Pensees (1669) -
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.
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Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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I also believe that it's the right thing to do, to maintain strong consumer confidence in our food systems. And I believe that the consumer should have strong confidence in our food systems.
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I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.
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I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.
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I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
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I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.
The Man Who Was Thursday -
I am of an Opinion, in which I am every Day more confirmed by Observation, that Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with Men, or else all the Obligations in the World will not create it. An outward Show may be made to satisfy Decency, and to prevent Reproach; but a real Sense of a kind thing is a Gift of Nature, and never was, nor can be acquired.
Works (1912) -
I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.
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