
“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”
Source: Pretty Little Liars
“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”
“What say you? It is useless? Ay, I know
But who fights ever hoping for success?”
Cyrano, Act 5, Sc. 6
Cyrano de Bergerac (1897)
Context: What say you? It is useless? Ay, I know
But who fights ever hoping for success?
I fought for lost cause, and for fruitless quest!
You there, who are you! — You are thousands! Ah!
I know you now, old enemies of mine!
Falsehood!
Have at you! Ha! and Compromise!
Prejudice, Treachery! …
Surrender, I?
Parley? No, never! You too, Folly, — you?
I know that you will lay me low at last;
Let be! Yet I fall fighting, fighting still!
Letter to Horace Davenport (3 April 1989).
“Powerless Atoms of Eternity
Why should we hope to know of Something higher?”
Quotes from "The Blind Desire", using the pseudonym "Charles A. Ballance" in William and Mary College Monthly (September 1897), V, p. 51
Context: Nay, 'tis not fitting that we should require
Within this World but Raiment, Food and Fire;
Powerless Atoms of Eternity
Why should we hope to know of Something higher? This Knowledge could but add, not lessen. Woe;
The Magian who To-day forms fire with snow
Shares with the Sudra in Infinity.
We come from Nothing and to Nothing go. So best consent, although with forced grace,
Upon this dingy Ball to run our race
Untrammeled with the thoughts of higher things,
Until we reach the shadowy Stopping place.
“Hillary says she has been tested. Well, I hope so. You never know what Bill might bring home.”
Guest monologue on The Tonight Show http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/jay-leno-takes-jimmy-fallons-867267, 17 February, 2016
The Tonight Show
“What hope have you know given up?”
Sketchbook 1966-1977
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VII : Love, Suffering, Pity
“Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.”
“Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.”
The Orphan (1680), Act iv. Sc. 2. Compare: "Let us swear an eternal friendship", John Hookham Frere, The Rovers, act i. sc. 1.