Hopelessly Quotes

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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Free, Enslaved, None

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
Bob Hope

Lazy, Throw, Kisses

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.
Thomas Sowell

Game, Football, Baseball

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
George Eliot

Love, Evil, Effort

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana

Love, Mind, Spring

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
Camille Paglia

Past, Greedy, Late

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
Walter F. Mondale

Everything, Confused, Understand

It's fun to be hopelessly in love. It's dangerous, but it's fun.
Keanu Reeves

Love, Fun, Dangerous

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

Home, Car, Mother

Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously.
Maurice Sendak

Great, Hard, Him

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

Life, Dreams, Women

We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price.
James Lovelock

Thought, Energy, Stand

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.
Theodore Bikel

Beauty, Work, Bored

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.
Theodore Bikel

Beauty, Work, Bored

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.
John Bolton

Peace, Become, Prize

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
Edith Sitwell

Hope, Fire, Become

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.
Jean Genet

Live, Universe, Air

The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some 'expert'... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.
Peter McWilliams

Find, Hopeless, Facts

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
Brit Marling

Romantic, Bit, Naive

Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.
Robert Smithson

Questions, Seem, Content

There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.
Bruce Campbell

Become, Worth, Ideas

At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.
Donald Pleasence

Work, Career, Working

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.
Derek Jarman

Men, Turn, Straight

If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.
Erika Slezak

Sad, Real, Words

It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.
Morris Raphael Cohen

True, Philosophy, Two

Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.
Sister Parish

Family, Aunt, Member

Government is operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.
Gerry Spence

Government, Nothing, Living

Sitting next to Olivia Newton-John, I was like, 'Do not sing one song from Grease.' That's all I was telling my brain at all times: 'Do not sing Hopelessly Devoted. Don't do it.'
Caroline Rhea

Brain, Song, Times

At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.
John McLaughlin

Love, Romantic, Different

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
Margaret Anderson

American, Writer, Rarely

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