Story Musgrave Quotes

If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

The future is, of course, imaginary - an unreal place that I create from my expectations, which are made from my remembered experiences, especially repeated experiences.

People are optimistic about the future.

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

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

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.

Our future is still ahead of us.

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

The future is something I'm looking forward to.

Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.

The future is plump with promise.

The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.

Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.

Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life its wonderful surprises.

The past is made out of facts...I guess the future is just hope.

Last night there seemed to be a chance. Anything was possible last night. That was the trouble with last nights. They were always followed by this mornings.

For better or worse, we live in possible worlds as much as actual ones. We are cursed by that characteristically human guilt and regret about what might have been in the past. But that may be the cost for our ability to hope and plan for what might be in the future.

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.