"Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all."
― William Butler Yeats
Topic(s):
Hope
More From William Butler Yeats
- "Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round."
- "But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
- "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
More In Hope
- "I love the Beatles. I haven’t named any kids after them but I still really love them. They were the first group that I was ever properly aware of. In my early teens I would sometimes stay in and listen to the radio all day in the hope that I would catch a song by them that I’d never heard before and be able to tape it on my radio-cassette player."― Jarvis Cocker
- "And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that’s going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations."― George Carey
- "You just hope that you will get the opportunity to do what you love and pay your bills, and that is being a success as an actor."― Debra Messing