39 Quotes by James Keller

Hope puts up with modest gains, realizing that the longest journey starts with one step.

Hope opens doors where despair closes them.

Hope lights a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

Hope discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot.

Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: ‘It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.’

A young lady had only one complaint about her good husband: “My husband always praises me to other people,” she said, “Often I hear from friends the wonderful things he has said about me. But I miss something, because he never gets around to saying these some things to me, to my face.”

A Seattle lawyer once interrupted his lengthy cross-examination of a witness and exclaimed, “Your Honor, one of the jurors is asleep.” “You put him to sleep,” replied the judge. “Suppose you wake him up.”

As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, “I don’t see how anyone can very well get on without them.”