False hope is nicer
False hope is nicer than no hope at all. Edgar Allan Poe
False Hope
Don’t spend time beating
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. Coco Chanel
But as surely as
But as surely as the moon rises and the sun sets, depravity passes down through the ages, because there is always a gap between who we are and who we should be, and our parents, molested by regret, conceive us under the false hope that we will be better than them, and everything they do, … Read more
Evermore the Law must
Evermore the Law must prepare the way for the gospel. To overlook this in instructing souls is almost certain to result in false hope, the introduction of a false standard of Christian experience, and to fill the Church with false converts… Time will make this plain. Charles Grandison Finney
I was headed for
I was headed for the fantastic lights. No doubt about it. Could it be that I was being deceived? Not likely. I don’t think I had enough imagination to be deceived; had no false hope, either. I’d come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was … Read more
False hope really makes
False hope really makes you cynical. Bill Maher
What unhappy beings men
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray. Baron de Montesquieu
Cheerfulness, up to and
Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine. Barbara Ehrenreich
We know the battle
We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change. We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and … Read more
In the unlikely story
In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. Barack Obama