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To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.


Emily Dickinson

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ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT They were not ready for me. They were not ready for me to do the show upstairs. Not yet.
ROY HORN They were not ready for me to do the show upstairs. Not yet.
ROY HORN Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being ...
G.K. CHESTERTON There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, n...
BUDDHA To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living ...
ANNE CARSON When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at ...
PAULO COELHO How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not "the thing with feathers." The thing with feathers has tu...
WOODY ALLEN Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past.
CHINESE PROVERB Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past
CHINESE PROVERBS There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow...
GEORGE ELIOT There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorro...
GEORGE ELIOT Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel w...
YODA Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is ca...
ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS At least one reason for trying to live lives that make a difference is that by so living, we hope we...
STANLEY HAUERWAS There is either where we've been or where we hope to go, here is where we are, take a moment to give...
DENNIS BARTON He's getting better, but he's not there yet.
BOBBY COX This fight's not over yet.
DICK DEGUERIN There is not much to say yet,
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E.M. FORSTER Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. TERRY BROOKS This is because most of them are not yet sexually active, which means they are still free from HIV. ...
DR MUKENDI KAEMBE Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.
LIBBA BRAY We hope he'll be ready for Thursday (at Hawaii). We just don't know yet.
GUS HAUSER We're not ready to pinch ourselves yet. We didn't come this far to just settle.
LAMAR BUTLER This is not just for me, it's for kids not born yet.
FRANK JACKSON Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung....
FRANZ KAFKA To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think the future deserves our faith. But it is hard to argue with Emily Dickinson.
JOHN GREEN Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
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PITTACUS LORE When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... No, there isn't. The backup is the freshman and that just wouldn't be right. He's not ready yet. Mik...
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BHAGAVAD GITA Hollywood is simply not ready to go gay yet.
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CHRISTOPHER HILL I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Gold is not quite ready yet to move in the upward bias.
JOE ISMAIL Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.
JOHN MILTON There's a first moment among many each season when you know you've found your rhythm. We're not ther...
TONY GUERRA If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation ...
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BERNIE SIEGEL It still has not sunk in yet.
DENNIS TOMASEVICZ Not yet. He's like glue.
WILLIE WILLIAMS I'm 39 but I'm not over the hill yet.
GAIL DEVERS They're not sure of anything yet.
ROBBIE BURROUGHS Not yet. We do see some, but we haven't lately.
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JEROME CHARYN I'm not ready to introduce this bill yet, I need to do some coalition building,
RICK BOUCHER I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if w...
THICH NHAT HANH There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if ...
LORD BYRON War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born.
KAHLIL GIBRAN It was just born and not even dry yet. We were careful not to disturb it. I got up close, took a few...
RON SHAFFER How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the pr...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Are we adequately prepared? ... No. We do not yet have a vaccine ready to go. If the pandemic happen...
GREG POLAND I'm not ready to quit yet. I'm not ready to go home.
CHARISE BAIN We consider the technology is not yet ready.
URS LINSI For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant w...
WILLIAM FAULKNER There is the possibility, if not likelihood, that we would not yet be finished with this, even with ...
ANTHONY FAUCI I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.
GEORGE MULLER I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready ...
JONATHAN COE Time is that by which at every moment all things become as nothing in our hands, and thereby lose al...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that on...
SAMUEL BECKETT To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that on...
MAXWELL MALTZ It's not yet ready to give out to the public. It's an embarrassing research prototype that barely wo...
GUY STEELE She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, ca...
PEARL BUCK There is a moment of birth, of living and of death in any hope.
MARIANA FULGER Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
MAE WEST The hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are yet to come.
SENATOR JOHN KERRY No, not yet, not finished, ... If I am going to fight, I am probably not going to fight at 140. It w...
KOSTYA TSZYU To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to los...
HAYAO MIYAZAKI I guess I'm not like Emily Dickinson who keeps things wrapped up in a ribbon in their top drawer.
JEFF BRIDGES Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI We're not ready at all. We're just not. I told those guys that defensively we're not ready. Offensiv...
ED DECHELLIS If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it
ALBERT EINSTEIN If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
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EBERHARD ARNOLD Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, si...
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HASSAN ROWHANI No one is perfect except two people : those who are dead and those who have not been born yet.
VIKRANT PARSAI Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of...
IRA SACHS No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that contin...
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MICHAEL IAN BLACK We may each be as unique as our fingerprint, yet that also means we are not that different to each o...
RODNEY LOVELL If you’re still waiting for it, it mean you’re not yet ready for it…whatever “it” is…so ...
MANDY HALE Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.
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KUMAR MANGALAM BIRLA Our understanding is that it is not yet in place.
ANDY FISHER Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becom...
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EMILY DICKINSON I must go in, the fog is rising.
EMILY DICKINSON Because I could not stop for death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And...
EMILY DICKINSON Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
EMILY DICKINSON Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON Anger as soon as fed is dead — 'Tis starving makes it fat.
EMILY DICKINSON Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
EMILY DICKINSON That it shall never come again is what makes life so sweet
EMILY DICKINSON Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will n...
EMILY DICKINSON One need not be a chamber to be haunted; / One need not be a house; /The brain has corridors surpass...
EMILY DICKINSON We never know where we go when we are going, We jest and shut the door; Fate - following behind us -...
EMILY DICKINSON How dreary - to be - somebody! How public - like a frog - to tell your name - the livelong June - to...
EMILY DICKINSON When it comes, the Landscape listens - Shadows - hold their breath - When it goes, 'tis like the Dis...
EMILY DICKINSON Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity
EMILY DICKINSON