#hopeless

There’s a gate?” I ask, confused. “Why do we always climb the fence?” He shoots me a sly grin. “You were in a dress the two times we’ve been here. Where’s the fun in walking through a gate? ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#dean-holder #hopeless #sky-and-holder #sky-davis #hopelessness

I don't care who the student is, teachers should never be condescending. That should be the first rule in the teacher handbook. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#teachers #hopelessness

Real ugly endings are better than fake happily ever after's ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#hopelessness

The second you think a situation is hopeless, it suddenly loses all meaning. A situation is just a case, condition, or state of affairs. It only becomes hopeless when you need to define an explanation. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#definition #excuses #hopelessness #meaning #situation

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. ↗

— Russell Baker

#brilliant #coat #correspondent #dangerous #dozen

He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world. ↗

— Anna C. Brackett

#answer #demanding #engaged #great #himself

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost. ↗

— Richard Branson

#car #determined #few #fields #find

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. ↗

— Gordon W. Allport

#hopeless #laughter #life #many #other

I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#chancellor #failing #george #his #hold

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#believe #enslaved #falsely #free #hopelessly