Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.

Like associates with like.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it – not by turning it over to Wall Street.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.

A promise must never be broken.