Edward Albee Quotes

America Was Promises

I've got to be honest, with every job I do there's a part of me, that child in me, that goes, 'This is the one.' And it rarely actually is.

Don't get disillusioned, no don't expect too much Cause if what you have is all you can get Just keep on trying It just ain't happened yet.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

The word 'hope' for me is always infused with action.

But I don't want to leave until I see the breakthrough.

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Most of us...are naturally more sanguine and hopeful than logic would justify. We seem to be so constituted that in the absence of any facts to go upon we are happy and self-satisfied; so that the effect of experience is continually to contract our hopes and aspirations

Hope is in some respects a thing more brilliant, more vivifying, than fruition. What we have looked forward to with eager and earnest aspiration is never in all respects equal to the picture we had formed of it. The very uncertainty enhances the enjoyment.

Fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition, small disappointed hope.

The devastating scale and frequency of my disappointment was proof of how much I still expected and wanted from the world, of what high hopes I still had for it.

I'm waking up to say I tried, instead of waking up to another TV guide.

Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't.

I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.

But you built me dreams instead.

Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.

And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your brain, tugging at their party lace, all perfume and hems and doomed expectation. They fanned their dance cards, these guests that pressed against the walls of your heart.

Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.

I think it's important for people to know that it's okay to feel like you're not better as long as you keep trying.