I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>