A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.
A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.
We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.
The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.
No fight is hopeless till it has been fought.
Hope's interesting, isn't it? I can't turn hope off, it's hopeless.
We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.
Math was a two-part exam and I once didn't go for the second part. I knew I'd done so badly on the first it was hopeless. I re-took it about four or five times. I think I eventually got it by getting the top GCSE grade.
Without the grace of Jesus: a hopeless end. With the grace of Jesus: an endless hope.
Good is that darkening of our lives, Which only God can brighten; But better still that hopeless load, Which none but God can lighten.
Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
I don't care if you say we can't be together. I don't care if you think I'm the most evil, unnatural creature walking on earth. You can think whatever you want, go whatever you want. I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless.
There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art.
In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.
I am worried that Americans I have met on my journey across the country, seem very hopeless and are feeling powerless to make change and are feeling passive. I'm not blaming them. But one thing we need at a time like this is for people to feel empowered and angry.
And when I say that is certainly true, that our marriage is over. I know what else she will say: "Then you must save it. " And even though I know it's hopeless- there's absolutely nothing left to save-I'm afraid if I tell her that, she'll still persuade me to try.
And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.
You can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.
Looking at them now, thought Jim, you'd never believe they weren't in love with each other, and not with a hopeless, doomed obsession like poor Isabel Meredith. This was what love ought to be like: playful and passionate and teasing, and dangerous, too, with sharp intelligence in it.