A Quote by Winston Churchill

The worst mistake that a statesman can make is to promise victory and to see it dashed, the hopes dashed.

Winston Churchill

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Winston Churchill
British - Statesman
November 30, 1874 - January 24, 1965

I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.

Clive Sinclair

He had high hopes for society, and though his hopes were too often dashed, he remained a raging optimist.

Randy Pausch

I sense that the road to Heaven is paved with dashed hopes.

Michael Leunig

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Seamus Heaney

When hopes of reform are dashed, people will rise up and seek revolution.

Xu Zhiyong

A tragic car accident put me in a wheelchair and dashed my hopes and dreams for the future.

Madison Cawthorn

Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.

Robert Breault

Students, in particular, now find themselves in a world in which heightened expectations have been replaced by dashed hopes.

Henry Giroux

Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.

Edward Albee

My hopes are laid up within my own bosom, for he is not alone with whom the Lord is; when he falls, he shall not be dashed to pieces, for the Lord sustains him in his hand.

Thomas Becket

This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins.

Abdul Kalam

The jingles saved my life. When I got hired to do that, I was on top. I finally was making a living doing what I loved. Before that, it was so bleak; it got so dark in L.A. I was 25, been living there for seven years trying to make it, and getting really close to getting signed with different bands and as a solo artist only to have my hopes dashed.

Mark Foster

We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or else we brood and too firmly root. Very few can step forward again and again in what amounts to veritable leaps into the void, where there are no ready holds, where little is familiar, where you get constantly stuck in the thickets of your uncertainties and fears.

Chang-Rae Lee

Poor minorities live in a new age of Jim Crow, one in which the ravages of segregation, racism, poverty and dashed hopes are amplified by the forces of privatization, financialization, militarization and criminalization, fashioning a new architecture of punishment, massive human suffering and authoritarianism.

Henry Giroux

You...you've been here quite a long time, haven't you?" What? Oh...yes. Ever since I married What's-her-name. Uh, Martha. Even before that. Forever. Dashed hopes, and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested. How do you like that for a declension, young man?

Edward Albee

Nothing has stolen more dreams, dashed more hopes, broken up more families, and messed up more people psychologically than our propensity to disregard God's commands regarding sexual purity.

Andy Stanley

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