Take
hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast
of prey.
-- Ouida
1838-1908, British
Writer
I've
found that the chief difficulty for most people was
to realize that they had really heard new things:
that is things that they had never heard before.
They kept translating what they heard into their
habitual language. They had ceased to hope and
believe there might be anything new.
-- Peter Demianovich
Ouspensky
1878-1947, Russian
Philosopher
My
hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
-- Ovid
BC 43-18 AD, Roman
Poet
One
measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a
single individual, is what that age or person really
wishes to do. A man's hope measures his
civilization. The attainability of the hope
measures, or may measure, the civilization of his
nation and time.
-- Ezra Pound
1885-1972, American
Poet, Critic
