Hoping For The Best

Parenting is a negative

Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best. Erma Bombeck

Once we were Programmers.

Once we were Programmers. Maybe our last best hope is a movie. Erik Naggum

Neither should a ship

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. Epictetus

Hope is the thing

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. Emily Dickinson

… all things are

… all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act. Elizabeth Edwards

Imitation, if noble and

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

To live without Hope

To live without Hope is to Cease to live. Fyodor Dostoevsky

We\’re hoping for the

We’re hoping for the best, but we need to prepare for the worst. Fred Thompson

Once I prophesied that this generation of Americans had a rendezvous with destiny. That prophecy now comes true. To us much is given; more is expected. This generation will nobly save or mainly lose the last best hope of earth. The way is plain, peaceful, generous just. A way, which if followed, the world will … Read more

For all its terrible

For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want. Ferdinand Mount