bible quotes on hope

Most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked about the house with a saintly expression. ~Beverly Nichols


The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. ~Leo Rosten


Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American. ~Malcolm X


The heart is the only broken instrument that works. ~T.E. Kalem


The sales tax seems to be more politically acceptable than the income tax. ~Raymond C. Scheppach


What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough. ~Bertolt Brecht, Jungle of Cities, 1924


Ladies, here's a hint. If you're up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That's the hardest shot for the well-endowed. ~Billie Jean King


Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. ~Ecclesiastes 1:2


If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge


It is a lot harder to keep people well than it is to just get them over a sickness. ~DeForest Clinton Jarvis


A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships. ~Victoria Secunda


Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him. ~Proverbs 26:12


Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs. ~George Chapman


The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. ~Adlai E. Stevenson


In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. ~Margaret Atwood


It's not the bullet with my name on it that worries me. It's the one that says "To whom it may concern." ~Anonymous Belfast resident, quoted in London Guardian, 1991


If God wanted us to be brave, why did He give us legs? ~Marvin Kitman


Princess Edane... heard a voice singing on a May Eve like this, and followed half awake and half asleep, until she came into the Land of Faery, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue. ~William Butler Yeats, "The Land of Heart's Desire," 1894


Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness. ~Ram Dass


Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. ~Dr. Seuss