Jack Gould Quotes

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

I'm not a fearful person, but I'm a pretty pessimistic person. So some of my best times are waiting, anticipating. That's the way it always has been with me, whether anticipating a ball game, anticipating a relationship.

That's the scary thing about hope," she said. "If you let it go too long it turns into faith.

The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Fear and hope are alike underneath.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

The future is called 'perhaps', which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

We hope vaguely, we dread precisely; our fears are infinitely more precise than our hopes

We promise according to our hopes; we fulfill according to our fears.

Hope and certainty are the enemies of peace.

Hope--danger's comforter

The unbearableness of the future is easier to face than that of the present if only because human foresight is much more destructive than anything that the future can bring about.

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

It's important to reassure people that everything is going to be all right.

When things go well I'm always looking for the next hiccup.