Hopeless Quotes - Page 5

English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.

I'm a big believer that there's a reason for everything. I'm a hopeless optimist.

You can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.

I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.

Life without hope, the slavery of mankind-a bondage so hopeless that slaves will no longer know they are slaves. Wealth without happiness, abundance without the power to enjoy it. The death of the spirit.

Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.

Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists on behaving like television. . . .

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.

The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got.

There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around.

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.

At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.

Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death

Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.

Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

I was the biggest, most hopeless and most violent drunk in baseball.

Looking at them now, thought Jim, you'd never believe they weren't in love with each other, and not with a hopeless, doomed obsession like poor Isabel Meredith. This was what love ought to be like: playful and passionate and teasing, and dangerous, too, with sharp intelligence in it.

I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness.

There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so... their position is almost laughably hopeless.

Education is the great equalizer of our time. It gives hope to the hopeless and creates chances for those without.

Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.