"Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable." ― Ambrose Bierce Topic(s): Hope More From Ambrose Bierce "Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt." "Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third." "Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead." More In Hope "Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse."― Patrick Swayze "Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it."― Jean Anouilh "See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It’s not church. It’s not serious."― Charles Barkley