"Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure."

Hope, Departure, Desire, Modernity

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"Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure."

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"I have only one prayer and that is, "Please give me endless power to love."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Hope, Love, Power, Prayer, Life

"Certainly if we hope do enhance and extend whatever natural assets we were given, we must expect to make an effort, if not actually great labor."

Dixie Carter, American Actor

Hope, Effort, Labor

"You'd be surprised, Theo." she said, leaning back in her shawl-shaped chair, "what small, everyday things can lift us out of despair. But nobody can do it for you. You're the one who has to watch for the open door."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

Hope, Awareness, Opportunity, Choice

"In time things thought impossible can be achieved."

Steven Redhead, British Author

Hope, Time, Achievement, Patience

"We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?"

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Hope, Future, Desire, Talent

"I want to have faith in strangers. I want to have faith in what we're all going to do next. But I'm worried. I see things shifting from United We Stand to God Bless America. I don't believe in God Bless America. I don't believe a higher power is standing beside us and guiding us. I don't believe we're being singled out. I believe much more in United We Stand. I have my doubts, but I want it to be true. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we really came together, if we really found a common humanity? The hitch is that you can't find a common humanity just because you have a common enemy. You have to find a common humanity because you believe that's true."

David Levithan, American Author

Hope, Faith, Humanity, Unity

"They have a fine breeze and are now we hope, well on their way."

Lewis Tappan, American Businessman

Hope, Now

"I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone."

Gerald R. Ford, American President

Hope, Understanding

"Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Hope, Cheerfulness, Power, Desperation

"Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Hope, Trust, Justice, Future

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"Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being."

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