Hopeless Quotations

In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

Genetically, I have tons of musical background in my life. My mother's father was a famous Weimar-era composer, Ernst Toch. My father's mother was the head of the Vienna Conservatory's piano department. It all canceled out in my case. I'm completely hopeless in music.

I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

It's fun to be hopelessly in love. It's dangerous, but it's fun.

When I was in the group homes, I saw some of the kids being moved into foster homes with the potential for adoption. I remember well asking a social worker if I could find a home, too. I was told I was 'too old' and 'no one wants to adopt a 16-year-old.' I felt hopeless and alone.

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

I'm hopeless at telling lies. I can attempt strategic ones in order not to hurt people's feelings, but then I'll blow it 10 minutes later.

I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself.

All I can say is that you only realize how big your mountain is once you're laying motionless, helpless, and hopeless in the valley below. No one goes there on purpose, if you get what I'm saying, because the only way to find your personal low is to slip and roll down that mountain of yours, straight through to the bottom, no holds barred.

I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got.

For years, Lebanese have known that Palestinian camps like Nahr al-Barid and Ain al-Helwe - hopeless slums crowded with generations of disenfranchised Palestinian refugees who can't go home because of Israel, and can't work because of Lebanese laws - are awash with gunmen, criminals and, since the war in Iraq, al-Qaida inspired jihadists.

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.

My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I'm so hopeless with technology.

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.

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

I am 39. I am single. I am a black woman. I have too many advanced degrees. Many a news story tells me finding true love is likely a hopeless proposition. Now is the time when I need to believe in fairy tales.

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

I'm really hopeless with technology - I don't even have a computer.

I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle. I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.

I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.

I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.

Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.

Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside you say, Why are they still married?

Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out.

I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.

English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless.

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.

I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

Sometimes I do feel hopeless when I look out and scream out through my music, and I scream out through these interviews, and I scream out to people to kind of get their attention back on the things that are meaningful. There's people dying on the streets of Chicago - young people, young men and women who are losing their lives.

I am a hopeless romantic, and so is my wife.

I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.

At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.

It is a hopeless endeavor to make the form and content of earlier architectural epochs usable for our time; in this, even the strongest artistic talent must fail. We see repeatedly how the outstanding builders fail to achieve an effect because their work does not serve the will of the age.

Nothing's hopeless except never trying.

Nothing is insoluble. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there's life.

You can always find contradictions and hope, in hopeless circumstances, and a sense of redemption in somebody who makes the same mistake, over and over. So far, so good. That's how I put it.

Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.

I am one who believes that with God nothing is hopeless - that all things are possible through prayer.

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.

I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do.

We have received a dog with serious eye problems and a skin disease in hopeless stage. The person who brought it here demanded we cure it for free and refused the idea of euthanasia to end its pain.

It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.

I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.

When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.

So for those who sometimes say that the process in the Middle East is hopeless we say we can look at Northern Ireland and take some hope from that.

She's lost every key person on her campaign. Some of them have been with her since the beginning of her career. It is hopeless at this point. She is becoming a caricature rather than a candidate.

Much of the marble coldness of Hester's impression was to be attributed to the circumstance that her life had turned, in a great measure, from passion and feeling, to thought. Standing alone, as to any dependent on society, and with little Pearl to be guided and protected- alone, and hopeless of retrieving her position, even as she had not scorned to consider it desirable, she cast away the fragments of a broken chain.

Only Saudi Arabia has surplus capacity, and if its oil flow should be disrupted, it could bring a hopeless situation.

If this blows up, it could usher a period of economic weakening and political instability. This development paints a desperate and hopeless picture of the Philippines.

I'd be hopeless at directing. I'm not the type. You've got to really know what you're doing and be quite controlling. It's a very lonely job.

He won't run if there is more rain. There is no point sending him around on a wet track. He's hopeless in the soft.

Her generation lived through two world wars and lost. She represents a hopeless identity of people in the wake of World War II.

He was just hopeless with girls at high school,

John Kerry's shifting positions, his contradictions, his pessimism and his hopeless rhetoric send the wrong message to our troops, to our allies, to our enemies and to the world,

I think the history is such that we underestimate the mental health problems, ... As people see what they consider sort of a hopeless situation - bodies floating on the water, the scene like they saw in the Superdome - people are not ready for that. They are not prepared to deal with it.

I said that if I hadn't been a politician, I'd have liked to be a barrister, or an academic. My beloved wife said: 'You'd be a very good barrister and a hopeless academic.' I said 'Why?' She said: 'Because you're not an original thinker.'

Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.

That was as hopeless as I've felt in the pocket trying to get something done, ever.

We were hopeless in the first-half, nowhere near our best and insipid, but better in the second-half and it was more like a Cup-tie and I thought we might just nick a goal to win it.

You know you're a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how cool it would be to go back to 1973 and buy all the great funk and jazz and salsa records that came out that year on tiny obscure labels and are now really rare and expensive.

Wherefore to-night so full of care, / My soul, revolving hopeless strife?

I'M A HOPELESS ROMANTIC

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

I'm a hopeless romantic, I say very loudly and proudly. I get a lot of stick for it.

That the situation appears hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best.

There are no hopeless situations, sweetheart, only people who have grown hopeless about them. You still have choices you can make.

Certainly I've never tried to imagine what the future will hold. It's a hopeless endeavor to try to do such a thing...

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.

Without Montreal, Canada would be hopeless.

Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.

I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.

I just wanted to fit in as a teenager, but it was hopeless.

Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure.

And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.

Be someone's light when they are hopeless.

As far as the Lord is concerned, the time to stand is in the darkest moment. It is when everything seems hopeless, when there appears no way out, when God alone can deliver.

People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless.

With a fixed mindset, you believe you are who you are and you cannot change. This creates problems when you're challenged because anything that appears to be more than you can handle is bound to make you feel hopeless and overwhelmed.

When Chris shoots he was shooting the last-second shot for a reason. It went off the top of the glass and I thought, 'Well, it's hopeless now because Chris missed it.' Collin grabs it and puts it back in and it was like just shock for a second. Then, it was sheer craziness.

Satan--the impersonation of that mixture of the bestial, the malignant, the impious, and the hopeless, which constitute the fiend--the enemy of all that is human and divine.

As the seventh wife of Henry VIII I hope I would have managed to do the old monster in-my cooking comes to mind, as I am a hopeless cook.

Ensanguining the skies, How heavily it dies, Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound, Not further to be found, How hopeless under ground, Falls the remorseful day

it was about offering the biggest help I could to a devastated, unemployed, homeless, but now not hopeless group of people.

The situation is catastrophic. I can see the hopeless situation of the city... this cultural dismantling is an incredible shame for Berlin.