Evolution throws a wonderful light on all the struggles, eccentricities, tortuous developments of the human conscience in the past. It is the only theory of morals that does. And evolution throws just as much light on the ethical and social struggle today; and it is the only theory that does. What a strange age ours is from the religious point of view! What a hopeless age from the philosopher's point of view! Yet it is a very good age, the best that ever was. No evolutionist is a pessimist.
In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.
I'M A HOPELESS ROMANTIC
I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do. The world wasn't so wonderful back then, with segregated rule in the South. But we were never hopeless and we never despaired because we had adults out there struggling with us, being there for us, and buffering us.
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.
Dont ever lose hope. Even when life seems bleak and hopeless, know that you are not alone.
It was hopeless. She was flawless. She was a sunbeam. Mosca gave up and got on with hating her.
Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.
I came to a terrifying place in my life where I knew I was hopeless. My only hope was to change. . . . or die.
Don't talk to me about what's happened since [Nelson] Mandela! His successor was absolutely hopeless - "no such thing as AIDS" - and this present President. . . It's a tragedy, you know, what's happened there post-Mandela, because he was an iconic figure.
If you're going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.
At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.
There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.
I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless.
The Christian religion is hopeless without the Holy Ghost.
One should. . . be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
If you are asking whether states and state actors can only respond through revenge, then you are suggesting that diplomatic solutions are hopeless.
The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.
Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.
All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.