“Hope doesn't mean anything…. Action's the only thing that counts.”

“The Devil doesn't make us do anything. The Devil, for example, doesn't make us mean. Rather, when we're mean, we make the Devil. Literally. Our actions create him. Conversely, when we behave with compassion, generosity, and grace, we create God in the world.”

Tom Robbins Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

“She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for.”

David Levithan book Every Day

“Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

“Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't mean they don't hope to still be a good human being in an awful world.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

“The only recognizable feature of hope is action.”

Grace Paley (1922–2007) American writer and activist

“One has to be able to count, if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.”

Maxim Gorky (1868–1936) Russian and Soviet writer

“Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

“Thinking does not change anything, only actions.”

Ralph Smart

“Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha