717 Quotes Found
"If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy."
"I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys."
"I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was, what I wanted to say. I think country music is the best music in the world and I'm glad to be doing a country album. I hope people will love it as much as I loved making it."
"I hope everybody's had fun, because I've enjoyed my ride. I can tell you that. Now it's time to step aside and let some other young kid come in and win. Hopefully, they will, too."
"It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes."
"There's a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because I've enjoyed my ride."
"So you know, I think that the federal government, the Democrats, and President Obama are selling a lot of hope and change, but no delivery of any of those promises."
"I am encouraged that there's going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. I mean, I hope that's not wishful thinking."
"We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better."
"I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date."
"Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors."
"Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope."
"I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do."
"I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired."
"I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope."
"It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope."
"President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch."
"The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.'"
"It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon."
"Gabriel Byrne is an extraordinary human being. We have two extraordinary kids and we work at it. We were always friends. He stuck by me through very hard times, and I hope he'd say the same about me."
"I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like construction, and then, yes, you hope you're talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer's work you've done and whatever else sprinkles down on you, and it's all caught on film or onstage."
"I hope to stay on 'Glee, ' I hope to still be a 'Housewife' and I hope to do 'The New Normal.' I just want to do it all! Why not? I'm only going to be young for a little while longer."
"I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world."
"There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug - not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope."
"As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace."
"I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don't get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best."
"We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right."
"Our only hope is to control the vote."
"You don't know what someone's going to walk away from a movie with, but you hope it's something positive, but if nothing, you want them most basically to be entertained and engaged. That's your job. But you also hope to give them something to chew on or maybe some insight into the human existence, you hope a little bit. Not to sound too lofty."
"I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1, 000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again."
"Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey."
"I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity."
"We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere."
"My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web."
"Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key."
"If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist."
"When they see those fourteen lights, they're looking at a miracle. And deep down, they feel that whatever's going to happen, there will be someone there to help them. And that fills them with hope."
"It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world."
"My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make."
"People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and they are right."
"I hope to work with kids any way possible."
"I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving."
"I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching."
"I hope that I serve by being a teacher."
"I hope to make acting my career for the rest of my life, if I can."
"You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business of laughter that you can't learn on a set, because it's all on you. Sometimes you bomb, and you know not to tell that joke again... You just hope people find the humor in the awkwardness."
"I'm terrible as I never take my make-up off at night, which I know is really dreadful. Whenever I'm out partying I just can't be bothered and now I am on 'Loose Women' that tends to be all the time. I hope next year holds even more parties for me."
"I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope."
"Next year, I hope there will be even more parties, lots of holidays and just having a good time, really. Plus wing-walking, air shows and learning to fly, as they are all things I want to do. I won't be restricted by age."
"Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel."
"I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value."
"I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality."
"That's the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it's time to pull over, you pull over and hope you can find a place to crash."
"Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world."
"I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope."
"I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've told a lot of stories about young people, and I always feel there's hope."
"My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness."
"Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films."
"In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say."
"Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class."
"The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits."
"I hope one day I will host my own charity event to give back to society."
"Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions."
"You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost."
"Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment."
"I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make."
"I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience."
"We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality."
"I hope I never get so old I get religious."
"I hope that it can relate to and be a blessing to anybody, with the hope that someday they will find Jesus Christ to be the same God that I've found Him to be."
"Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it."
"I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road."
"Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope."
"I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland."
"Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide."
"There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run."
"I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again."
"Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?"
"Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained."
"There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off."
"Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow."
"There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope."
"I'm thrilled to continue my partnership with U by Kotex for Generation Know while helping to empower girls. I've always been a motivational resource for my younger sisters and hope I can positively impact and inspire other young girls too."
"I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know... one of my favorite movies is 'The Notebook' so I guess that would be considered romantic. But I think being romantic is more than the flowers and the gifts. It's about connecting with the person and being able to talk and share things with her."
"Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug."
"I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away."
"When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also."
"Hope springs eternal, even in politics."
"I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well."
"Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom."
"When I go to a concert, I can't help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts."
"Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can."
"My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave."
"We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human."
"I've had some incredible moments in my life - thus far. I hope a lot more are coming."
"Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that."
"I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'"
"I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed."
"I hope that when I'm 80 years old, people will still be talking about my wedding."
"I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am."
"You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs."
"Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan you just hope for it."
"Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me."
"Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it."
"I hope to get out before they start football next year."
"And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations."
"You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!"
"I remember thinking, That's what I need - and that hope was in Jesus Christ."
"The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation."
"'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for."
"I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound."
"Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80."
"Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world, to people of all faiths and backgrounds, with his powerful belief in the human spirit."
"As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, 'This is what I love doing, and I hope I'm going to be able to do it forever.'"
"You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone."
"Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace."
"Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development."
"It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope."
"Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice."
"I hope girls read what I say in interviews - they should just be themselves."
"White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change."
"In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it."
"You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency."
"Jake Roberts has a hard enough time being Jake Roberts. The truth is a brutal thing, I just hope that the kids take the time to learn about each of the wrestlers in the game, and if the kids can learn from our mistakes, that would make me a happy man."
"I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession."
"I would hope everyone would be a feminist."
"I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope."
"I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative."
"I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now."
"Hope is a risk that must be run."
"I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed."
"What you hope for, like Unforgiven did a lot to give you a chance to do it again sometime."
"Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior."
"Like when I host a party. I hope my guests get along. But if not, how interesting!"
"Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy."
"Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope."
"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."
"I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked."
"The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore."
"It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails."
"You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order."
"To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge, and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking, 'My ear looks weird from this angle, why is the camera over there?'"
"I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business."
"I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle."
"We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments."
"I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played."
"At the end of the day, my hope is that when the new Medicare- Prescription Drug Law gets up and fully running a lot more seniors will pay a whole lot less than they do today for their much-needed medications."
"The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love."
"No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope."
"When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield."
"The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most."
"If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace."
"It would be fun to do a reunion show. I hope we do it some day, but it better be soon. We're all getting on."
"I told the President, I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about negotiations is counter-productive, because when you give the Palestinians hope that the United States will do its negotiating for them, they are not going to sit down and talk."
"It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles."
"If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now."
"I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms."
"I hope I can help guys come out and say, 'All right, dude, I got a manicure... and I liked it.'"
"Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed."
"It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope."
"Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain."
"Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it."
"When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read."
"I don't believe that I'm better than anybody, but I do believe that I'll try harder than most and I hope that people just join me for a little bit of a ride."
"I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow."
"People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they're right."
"I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life."
"But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer."
"You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance."
"Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp."
"The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'"
"Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did."
"I hope to be an actor and never retire."
"There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round."
"So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful."
"There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope."
"Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true."
"I think films have to reach people and really grab them. That's what I hope to do when I make a film - to get under your skin and really make you think about something, and have a transporting time that takes you somewhere."
"Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor."
"I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable."
"I'm really happy here. I think anyone who knows me well, and the fans too I hope, they know that I love the area, and the bond that I've had with the fans has been fantastic."
"For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts."
"I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together."
"I love the Beatles. I haven't named any kids after them but I still really love them. They were the first group that I was ever properly aware of. In my early teens I would sometimes stay in and listen to the radio all day in the hope that I would catch a song by them that I'd never heard before and be able to tape it on my radio-cassette player."
"House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust."
"We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the extent he is willing to do this, we are ready to work with him."
"I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands."
"We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.'"
"I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic."
"I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing."
"Hope is a very unruly emotion."
"People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope."
"As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope."
"If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie."
"You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of."
"Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results."
"For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning."
"I hope we never get to the point that we put ourselves in Jesus' place. But when I read the New Testament basically, we get three mandates: to love God, to love each other, and to take care of the least among us. And I think this is at least a step in the right direction."
"I don't want to say never, but I hope I don't become that 'take me seriously now' guy."
"I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained."
"What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked."
"When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire."
"I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy."
"Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth."
"I just hope that the democratic will of the Zimbabwean people prevails. If it does we must move quickly to help restore stability and prosperity."
"As a relatively young woman - I'm 33 - I hope to one day have a family and already have commitments. If and when I'm elected as an MP, I would face a choice: take my family with me to London each week or be apart for four, maybe five, nights a week."
"Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook."
"I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it."
"'A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints' was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action movies are fun, but I'd be happy not to do them if there are better roles."
"Jim Thorpe is someone I've always loved. He was an Olympic athlete, you know, and a football player from back in the day. I'd love to play him. And then there's a guy called Iceman who was a top hit man for the mob. I would love to play him. Actually, it's sort of in the works, so I hope it goes through."
"I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don't know, because it's not in your hands, you don't make the decision."
"A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts."
"I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness."
"Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends."
"I hope I'm still shooting when I'm 80."
"Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine."
"If you're lucky enough to be involved in a film that's about something very real and that you hope will continue to hold up in 20 years' time it just gives you more energy and makes it feel all the more worthwhile."
"It's always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work."
"I know where I'm going and I have told the French. I am sure if hope is there, we will be able to put France back on its feet... to live better in five years than we do today."
"I am proud to have been capable of giving people hope again."
"We need to have a pro-growth policy put in place that offers people hope and offers the opportunity for businesses to expand and for them to have confidence in what the world is going to look like for the next two or three or four years with respect to economic policy."
"I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes."
"I really feel confident about my dancing now, so I hope there could be a place for me in the West End or on Broadway - maybe a musical, maybe my own show."
"I love being able to sing for my job. I am blessed beyond words and I hope my fans can feel that while I'm on stage!"
"I hope to one day co-sign a lease with another person but, well, it doesn't plague me that I have yet to do so. Put it this way: I've never had to violently tug at my own pillow at 2 A.M. to get myself to stop snoring."
"I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life."
"My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results."
"I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived."
"Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse."
"One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me."
"I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation."
"I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?"
"I have more awareness of other people and, I hope, more sensitivity to their needs. I also find that I'm more direct and outspoken."
"In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement."
"They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind."
"I hope by the time I'm 30 to have a husband and maybe a baby."
"In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival."
"I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly."
"We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices."
"At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism."
"I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy."
"Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel'? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony."
"I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life."
"I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did."
"I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing, ' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear."
"The other day I got a text from a boy, but it wasn't hot. I mean, if you're going to text me every day, you haven't seen me for months and you're trying to seduce me, you'd better spice up that text and make it more exciting than 'How was your day? I hope you're having a beautiful one.' Sadly, I haven't been doing a lot of kissing lately."
"I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping."
"There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics."
"We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong."
"Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped."
"What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me."
"You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!"
"It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination."
"To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion."
"I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers."
"I don't know how many good books I still have in me I hope there are another four or five."
"I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict."
"In between films I like to travel and hope to visit every continent before I become a mother."
"I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope."
"The great hope of society is in individual character."
"I never make a movie for awards consideration. I will use the hope of getting an Academy Award a) to honor the people who work so hard and also b) it's the greatest Good Housekeeping seal in the world. It's the greatest brand. It's as good as Louis Vuitton and Dior in the world of moviemaking. It's the Super Bowl."
"The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living."
"I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now."
"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance."
"The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail."
"That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it."
"There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope."
"You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help."
"Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent."
"Americans appreciate the way our friends around the world are sticking by us, and we all hope for their continued support in what's going to be some very trying times."
"I think they'd rather us follow our hearts and I hope that's what some people will understand."
"My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage."
"When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it's a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people."
"For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush."
"I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame."
"This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it."
"As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope."
"I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding."
"As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours."
"So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do."
"When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters."
"I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded."
"Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage."
"I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship."
"What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better."
"Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness."
"There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope."
"I hope to inspire people, influence people."
"My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message."
"Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud."
"I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me."
"One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation."
"They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on."
"I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing."
"Today, one year after their divorce, Pamela and Tommy Lee announced they're getting back together. You know what that means? There's still hope for Ike and Tina Turner."
"Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible."
"For now, I'm just going to keep doing the work and hope I don't get fired. If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it."
"If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope."
"One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don't know it."
"You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them."
"Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence."
"I hope to work harder than ever to help people around the world."
"I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come."
"The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them."
"When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled."
"For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security."
"My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning."
"I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there."
"I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere."
"I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us."
"On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a 'Restoring Honor' revival meeting featuring sexy guest star Sarah Palin, much as Bob Hope would roll out Raquel Welch in white go-go boots on his U.S.O. tours to give our fighting men a morale lift in their khakis."
"Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out."
"I hope my music sets up the platform for me to be able to do lots of things - to have a cowboy-boot line, maybe, or do a perfume or makeup deal."
"When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating."
"Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear."
"We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics."
"I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films."
"Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do."
"I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject."
"With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven."
"Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic."
"I hope in my lifetime we can all continue to laugh at ourselves and not put down anyone for what they weigh."
"I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night. I want to stir the pulse, yes, but also to stir the heart. I hope 'The Woods' does that."
"Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell."
"I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self."
"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."
"I hope that as the Senate and American people learn more about me, they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences."
"I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program."
"Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln."
"I hope there are some audiophiles still out there."
"I don't think I'm a great songwriter, but I think I've learned a lot about it, and I don't think there's any one way to do it. I don't think I can control it at all. I can just kind of hope that it happens."
"My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote."
"For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before."
"See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious."
"On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!"
"If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks."
"A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread."
"We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest."
"We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end."
"The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict Internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done."
"Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will."
"I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable generally, though, I think I am."
"In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply."
"There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration."
"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work."
"Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted."
"My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall."
"The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic."
"I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself. These days there's far more pressure to make a mark, so the temptation is to make adventure television or personality shows. I hope the more didactic approach won't be lost."
"Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish."
"I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights."
"The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there."
"Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance."
"I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected."
"I still believe in a place called Hope."
"Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do."
"One must not hope to be more than one can be."
"If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly."
"I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth."
"Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth."
"It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes."
"Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself."
"Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work."
"I hope to bring people to God with my songs."
"As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct."
"I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause."
"There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also."
"My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts."
"I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line."
"I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck."
"A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope."
"On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously."
"I have met a few Casanovas I like and a few I have not liked - and I hope to meet a few more."
"In an election, one needs both hope and audacity."
"Let's hope you feel better now."
"They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be."
"You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self."
"My sweetest hope is to lose hope."
"What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black."
"It's just a part of our nature to hope."
"I hope I have important things to say."
"A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you."
"I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it."
"If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory."
"When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope."
"I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I've enjoyed doing the games. I don't ever go to the park where I don't have a good day. I don't like losing. But I don't think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don't think once."
"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."
"We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon."
"Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man."
"Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity."
"Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition."
"Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best."
"I hope I die before I get old."
"I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don't pretend that if Facebook didn't exist, that this wouldn't even be possible. Of course, it would have."
"The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen."
"I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace."
"I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom."
"Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away."
"The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription."
"I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach."
"Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating."
"I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living."
"Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser."
"Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected."
"I'm really fun. I'm ridiculously fun. I hope I'm infectiously fun."
"Whiskey's to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer."
"He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope."
"The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again."
"If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them."
"I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily."
"I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself."
"You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor."
"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope."
"I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with."
"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."
"Our shared conservative values, our belief in the individual is the great hope of our nation."
"We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope."
"My hope is that that person will come forward that can win the presidency that we can all get behind."
"When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities."
"I hope my own children never have to fight a war."
"The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories."
"I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together."
"I hope all you young girls see yourself up there... we were just like you."
"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles."
"Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise."
"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."
"I hope to be involved in a successful movie script."
"I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available."
"I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope."
"And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara."
"Let's hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply won't buy."
"Any institution faces two basic choices if they hope to spark new ideas. One is to leverage the brains trust within their organization by creating a special event dedicated to new thinking. The other is to look outside themselves to stimulate solutions."
"Corporations, consumers, and citizens must begin acting in concert to create a powerful third pillar of social transformation if we hope to meet the social challenges we currently face with equal force. This begins with corporations that choose to alter how they practice capitalism in two ways to serve the greater good."
"To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival."
"Hope never abandons you, you abandon it."
"I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness."
"I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I'm doing."
"Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother."
"Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that."
"My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work."
"I hope I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses."
"A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving."
"Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation."
"I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me."
"But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having."
"I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers."
"And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else."
"I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation."
"One thing I can't do, and I hope that there are other people out there that feel the same way, is climb a rope. Oh my gosh, it's so hard to climb rope! It's all about grip and arms."
"The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there's not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn't necessarily sign up for this."
"My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds."
"A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader."
"Beware how you take away hope from any human being."
"I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question."
"The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives."
"My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life."
"But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one."
"I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us."
"We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves."
"To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself."
"But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense."
"I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP."
"Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me."
"We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation."
"'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again."
"There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again."
"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."
"Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love."
"Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things."
"The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope."
"People always ask me if I'm going to stop modeling because I have started an acting career. I hope to continue to model for years to come."
"Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief."
"Right now I'm not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again."
"What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?"
"I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God."
"When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens."
"At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope."
"The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in what we hope for."
"Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss."
"Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation."
"I hope to be scaring children for the rest of my life."
"Hope is patience with the lamp lit."
"All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them."
"Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves."
"Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for."
"If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination."
"One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more."
"Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away."
"I hope that women everywhere will wear this jewelry and feel the passion and love that is, to me, the real spirit of True Harmony."
"Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing."
"We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord."
"To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois."
"One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes."
"I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope."
"I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs."
"Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'"
"I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though."
"I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region."
"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings."
"A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope."
"Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check."
"It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart."
"If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it."
"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."
"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."
"One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve."
"My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel."
"When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit."
"But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope."
"Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings."
"I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don't take counsel of your fears."
"Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting."
"Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope."
"Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you."
"Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope."
"When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead."
"Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted."
"Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater."
"A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well."
"I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people."
"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope."
"I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."
"I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son."
"Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure."
"Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again."
"About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment."
"It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate."
"I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here."
"A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm."
"I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope."
"Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow."
"Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for."
"Hope is the denial of reality."
"I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it."
"I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big."
"The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at."
"What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?"
"I hope to die in the saddle seat."
"Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one."
"The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless."
"If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is."
"I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment."
"The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition."
"Not without hope we suffer and we mourn."
"All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from."
"I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story."
"I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me."
"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea."
"Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions."
"The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side."
"I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife."
"I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do."
"Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others."
"Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within."
"Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope."
"You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things."
"You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."
"Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive."
"I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs."
"If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen."
"Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die."
"When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there."
"At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about."
"When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action."
"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers."
"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."
"Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value."
"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope."
"Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings."
"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness."
"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
"I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for."
"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."
"Among physicists, I'm respected I hope."
"Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all."
"Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place."
"The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world."
"You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do."
"Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement."
"I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship."
"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."
"I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing."
"One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again."
"How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress."
"But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of."
"Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent."
"Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity."
"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."
"If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning."
"I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes."
"The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope."
"I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."
"In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors."
"I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven."
"Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on a mission to tell parents that there is a way."
"Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors."
"Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route."
"All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?"
"We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope."
"When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better."
"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life."
"Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones."
"But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."
"I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery."
"Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that."
"Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have."
"Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope."
"Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope."
"I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't."
"The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors."
"People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous."
"Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope."
"Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent."
"At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't."
"It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics."
"War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms."
"Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man."
"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime."
"I would describe myself as emotional and highly strung. If something upsets me, it really upsets me. If something makes me angry, I get really angry. But it's all very upfront. I can't hide it. I'm also loyal and I hope I'm fun."
"Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker."
"As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking."
"I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor."
"Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this."
"I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope."
"My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. 'Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you're stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem - just move on to the next. 'Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.'"
"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel."
"To me, we're marketing hope."
"The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes."
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."
"If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell."
"I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred."
"When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is."
"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."
"I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back."
"Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die."
"He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool."
"Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions."
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
"In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved."
"Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem."
"While there's life, there's hope."
"I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'"
"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."
"I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse."
"A leader is a dealer in hope."
"But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful."
"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."
"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."
"It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes."
"Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation."
"No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible."
"What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope."
"I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant."
"My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair."
"The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on."
"I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away."
"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."
"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be."
"Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."
"Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough."
"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."
"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."
"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."
"Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one."
"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
"Hope is a waking dream."
"I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff."
"How disappointment tracks the steps of hope."
"All hope abandon, ye who enter here!"
"The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint."
"All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope."
"One lives in the hope of becoming a memory."
"Uncertainty is the refuge of hope."
"I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting."
"I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him."
"Hope will never be silent."
"Things start out as hopes and end up as habits."
"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."
"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us."
"I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
"It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit."
"Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out."
"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."
"To live without Hope is to Cease to live."
"My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here."
"Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity."
"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."
"Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated."
"Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope."
"A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope."
"Where there is no vision, there is no hope."
"I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing."
"We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon."
"A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope."
"Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people."
"Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest."
"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope."
"Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have."
"Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment."
"Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday."
"In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?"
"We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds."
"Hope is the dream of a waking man."
"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope."
"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."
"Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant."
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
"This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last."
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all."
"Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms."
"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."
"I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."
"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe."
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."