Doug Stanton Quotes

People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.

All hope of remedy is considered vain

To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.

We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: None is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope!

You don't go to tarot readers or psychics when everything's going well. It's always evidence of rock-bottom.

Listen, anybody can put their head down and throw a haymaker and pray and hope it lands.

I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.

Fortunately, just when things were blackest, the war broke out.

Bad news on the doorstep;I couldn’t take one more step

You should despair and run away.

Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov's question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn.

All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.

Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.

The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.

I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion.

I have one final hope, If I get double sixes, maybe he will change his mind, come back to me. As if to cast a magic spell, I blow on the dice just as Dex did...Just as it happened with our first roll, one die lands before its mate. On a six! I hold my breath. For a brief second, I see a mess of dots, and think I have boxcars again. I kneel, staring at the second die. It is onle a five. I have rolled an eleven, It is as if someone is mocking me, saying, Close, but no dice.

This country is no more saved than; well ... it's as lost as they say in Alabama, "... as lost as a ball in tall grass."

I can't get a job, I can't get arrested.

I'm not choosing, but I'm running out of fight.

How many would die did not hope sustain them.

We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end.

The race is lost. You can't overtake here and I'm starting from 15th... It's over already.

Abandon every hope, you who enter.

Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.