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I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.
by Studs Terkel (Journalist, American , born in 1912) keywords: because, despair, easiest, good, hope, human, idealist, perverse, practical, realistic, say, species, survive, thing, think, us, very , world With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.
by Studs Terkel (Journalist, American , born in 1912) keywords: alternative, because, despair, head, hope, look, might, never, optimism, optimist, oven, put, said, say, side, sunny, things, upon, well , your Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
by Ieyasu Tokugawa (Statesman, Japanese , born in 1543) keywords: despair, discontent, imperfection, inconvenience, lot, mortals, natural, neither, persuade, room, thyself , will To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
by Alice Walker (Author, American , born in 1944) keywords: almost, black, despair, enough, entirely, essential, future, hatred, her, make, more, mother, our, see, she, turned, us , woman Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
by H. G. Wells (Author, English , born in 1866) keywords: adult, bicycle, despair, every, future, human, longer, race, see , time When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.
by Paul Wellstone (Politician, American , born in 1944) keywords: action, americans, apathy, believe, come, despair, disappointment, even, frustration, hope, many, out, outrage, participate, see, some, too , vote You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.
by Morris West (Writer, Australian , born in 1916) keywords: causes, despair, fact, had, impossible, know, modern, perfection, proposed, quarters, us , various The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.
by Paul Westerberg (Musician, American , born in 1960) keywords: best, better, contemplate, darkness, despair, getting, heavily, incapable, off, say, sofa, suicide, than, too , write Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
by Elie Wiesel (Novelist, American , born in 1928) keywords: beings, come, despair, given, hope, human, just, only, other , too We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
by Elie Wiesel (Novelist, American , born in 1928) keywords: beyond, despair, doing, else, go, into, somebody, something, using , working To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
by Raymond Williams (Novelist, Welsh , born in 1921) keywords: convincing, despair, hope, make, possible, radical, rather, than , truly This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.
by Isaac Mayer Wise (Clergyman, American , born in 1819) keywords: best, book, brink, composed, conceived, constructed, contains, darkness, despair, grief, mind, over, powers, sorrow, soul, thoughts , triumph Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.
by P. G. Wodehouse (Writer, English , born in 1881) keywords: despair, gave, hardly, her, life, made, means, once, pupils, salvation, supporting, were , worth If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
by Francis Parker Yockey (Writer, American , born in 1917) keywords: any, between, choose, cowardice, despair, need, optimism, pessimism, stupidity , them I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.
by Loretta Young (Actor, American , born in 1913) keywords: any, contribution, despair, eventually, follows, making, part, thinking, want, whatsoever , which
