Joshua Ferris Quotes

You can't go around chasing your own plays and showing up every time somebody does one somewhere. You just cross your fingers and hope that they're OK.

Life is hopefully long, so I don't know what the future will bring.

It's been my experience that every time I think I know where it's at, it's usually somewhere else.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

I like to think of hope as a fact and something that wins out always. Whether you're hopeful or not, actually, you do get through what you're in the middle of. When you're in it, you don't feel like that's possible. But time and time again, we're proven wrong.

Football is like that: you never know when things will change, so you can never give up.

Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour.

I try to take life as it comes, and just hope it keeps coming.

When I was younger I thought I'd meet the man of my dreams, get married and have a child, but it all went higgledy-piggledy. Never say never, though.

One day I am satisfied, the next day I find it all bad; still I hope that some day I will find some of them good.

Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it's worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you. They are as much for you as they are for other people. Remember this when you wake up in the morning and think you have nothing. Stand up and face the east. Now praise the sky and praise the light within each person under the sky. It's okay to be unsure. But praise, praise, praise.

If I lose today, I can look forward to winning tomorrow, and if I win today, I can expect to lose tomorrow. A sure thing is no fun.

To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen great changes must have great hopes.

So what if right now everything is wrong?

I tend to be pessimistic. I want to believe in hope.

You never know what even the bad situations will lead to, which I guess is true with anything in life.

Just when you think it can't get worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it will. But as long as you remember that he loves you and you love him you'll be just fine.

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.

Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.

In retrospect, everything is finite, but prospectively, there are infinite possibilities. I guess that's what makes life hopeful.

Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.

All I get is tomorrow.

As long as nothing happens anything is possible.

A Tibetan Lama said to me, "The best place to stand, Ram Dass, is halfway between hope and hopelessness." So I can write a scenario for the 21st century in either direction. One is that it all goes to hell and that it's truly the dark age.