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The Great Gatsby
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Hopeless Quotes

Charlie Brown: Everything seems hopeless…I’m completely depressed.
Lucy van Pelt (in her psychiatry both): Go home. And eat a jelly-bread sandwich folded over. Five cents please. (Charlie Brown leaves. Lucy puts her feet up.) There are some cures you don’t learn in medical school.

– Charles M. Schulz

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

– George Gissing

I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven’t – if I’ve just met somebody, it’s hopeless.

– Chuck Close

I just wanted to fit in as a teenager, but it was hopeless.

– Anne Beatts

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.

– Bill Ayers

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

– Clare Boothe Luce

I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.

– Ben Whishaw

I am a hopeless, shameless flirt.

– Elizabeth Wurtzel

I’m not gifted, but I’m not hopeless.

– Norman Spinrad

I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic.

– Chris Lowell

My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion – she’s totally organised, whereas I’m hopeless.

– Meg Rosoff

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn’t know to write.

– Mary Garden

I am a hopeless mamma’s boy.

– Michael Carbonaro

I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

– Natascha McElhone

I like playing off strong actors, whether it’s Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I’m a hopeless romantic, so I’m fascinated by relationships.

– Lara Pulver

I think I’ll always be a hopeless romantic.

– Kim Kardashian

I’m a hopeless romantic.

– Lance Bass

I shall never come to the Punjab again; it is such a hopeless place.

– Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I am a hopeless romantic.

– Jessica Brown Findlay

I’m a hopeless 19th-century romantic.

– John Banville

Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.

– Ralph Abernathy

I’m hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.

– Rachel Maddow

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

– Samuel Johnson

Relish being an oddball: Well-behaved, well-adjusted people are hopeless storytellers and, honestly, terribly boring.

– Twinkle Khanna

English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.

– Zadie Smith