Mike D Quotes

I don't have any expectations of anything.

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

Blessed are those that nought expect, for they shall not be disappointed.

I don't walk around saying everything is going to be wonderful.

I have no illusions of the future. Or maybe it's all illusion. I don't know. I've always been ready for it.

A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.

I'd love to tell you that something is going to change tomorrow. But the reality is that it won't.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

I don't have any expectations.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.