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Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war. -- B. H. Liddell Hart
To me, elegy suggests that there is hope, and in some respects you've moved past the loss and are able to deal with it and to write about it. -- Jacqueline Woodson
I'm also a great believer in the dream life; that while we're asleep, a deep subconscious connection is made about our profoundest fears, hopes, loves, losses, dreads and desires. -- Andrew Motion
They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man. -- John Pearson
Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses. -- Alfred P. Sloan
Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality. -- Nelson Mandela
The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations. -- Lech Walesa
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect. -- Queen Elizabeth II
My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry. -- Ted Dekker
My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy. -- Judy Collins
Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground. -- Abdallah II of Jordan
What was more brutal than loss of hope? -- Nicole Mones
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss. -- Democritus
There is no greater disease than the loss of hope. -- Yisroel Salanter
God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss. -- Karen Kingsbury
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding. -- Subhash Kak
I'm prouder of my weight loss than my Oscar! I hope it has inspired people. -- Jennifer Hudson
One of the signs of relying on deeds is loss of hope when a misstep occurs. -- Ibn Ata Allah
The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss. -- Erin Hunter
Sex is a game, a weapon, a toy, a joy, a trance, an enlightenment, a loss, a hope. -- Sallie Tisdale
Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive. -- Gail Caldwell
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness. -- B. H. Liddell Hart
To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art. -- David Mamet
...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility. -- Paul Krugman
Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope. -- Haruki Murakami
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both -- Tryon Edwards
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both. -- Tryon Edwards
And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker; it can make you deeper. -- Augusten Burroughs

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