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Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

Jack Nicklaus liked to curve the ball by opening or closing the clubface at address. I never felt I was good enough to do it his way. I didn't like changing my swing path, either, which some guys do.

So, Hitchcock wouldn't say anything about my work in the movie but, on the other hand, he wouldn't complain, either.

My life won't be a series of either/ors - musician or actor, rock or country, straitlaced or rebellious, this or that, yes or no. The real choices in life aren't that simple.

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.

If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.

Either we're going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border.

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

I would argue that the next President, either Bush or Gore, should strike a 'national' posture, exhibiting generosity toward the defeated opponent, but proceeding with determination to implement an agenda.

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

We've all known a John Tucker. We've either known one, dated one or our best friend has dated one. I think a lot of men at one point or another have been a John Tucker.

I think up until that time a lot of focus on Internet coverage was either sort of the bits and bytes aspect of it, sort of the high-tech aspect of it, and the sociological aspect of it, which is how it was transforming culture.

The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.