Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated
Albert Meltzer
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Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.
HENRY ROLLINS No one can hope that men who have fought in silence for four years and are now fighting all day long...
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ALBERT CAMUS Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Make hope a way toward optimism; make optimism a way of life.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Today is a day of hope, a day of optimism.
ALAN DOSS Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.
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JAMES FENIMORE COOPER If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the ha...
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NICHOLAS SPARKS La vida era como una canción.
En el comienzo, hay misterio, al final, hay una confirmación, ...
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می توانم امشب غمناک ترین سطرها را بنویسم PABLO NERUDA A joy as intense as pain
NICHOLAS SPARKS The fire of hope never dies.
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MARK IBRAHIM I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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MATSHONA DHLIWAYO She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
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PAULO COELHO What day is it?"
It's today," squeaked Piglet.
My favorite day," said Pooh.
A.A. MILNE The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiratio...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN If at first an idea does not sound absurd, then there is no hope for it. —ALBERT EINSTEIN
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C. JOYBELL C. Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief tha...
JANE MCGONIGAL It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Well, this is basically the end, so the answers should be in these next few pages. I doubt they will...
MARKUS ZUSAK Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN If I put on my academic hat, I would have nothing to tell you to explain this. The only thing keepin...
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THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the prole...
GEORGE ORWELL We choose hope over despair, possibilities over problems, optimism over cynicism.
JOHN EDWARDS She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ...
ANGELA CARTER The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo...
KATHERINE VUCICEVIC No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practi...
HARRY NILSSON Hope without life;The last hope of man is death,but death is a bizarre kind of hope & hope without l...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Optimism hopes for the best without any guarantee of its arriving and is often no more than whistlin...
J.I. PACKER We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS
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ALBERT CAMUS The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
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ALBERT CAMUS A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
ALBERT EINSTEIN No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.
ALBERT ELLIS I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more dire...
ALBERT ELLIS There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equa...
ALBERT ELLIS Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about...
ALBERT ELLIS