Famous Quotes
- That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
- William McKinley on Hope
- 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.
- Jello Biafra on Hope
- 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.
- The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee on Hope
- The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
- Willem De Kooning on Hope
- 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.
- Norman Cousins on Hope
- 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.
- Wendell Berry on Hope
- 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.
- Christopher Hitchens on Hope
- The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
- John Buchan on Hope
- The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.
- David Attenborough on Hope
- The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
- 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.
- Jonathan Kozol on Hope
- 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.
- Brooke Shields on Hope
- The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Hope
- The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.
- Rush Limbaugh on Hope
- The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
- Basil Hume on Hope
- The great hope of society is in individual character.
- William Ellery Channing on Hope
- The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in what we hope for.
- Bryant H. McGill on Hope
- The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
- James Madison on Hope
- The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on.
- Novak Djokovic on Hope
- The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.
- Jim DeMint on Hope
- 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.
- Christopher Lasch on Hope
- The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. on Hope
- 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.
- Peter Singer on Hope
- The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.
- Lech Walesa on Hope
- 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.
- Norman Cousins on Hope
- The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Hope
- The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee on Hope
- 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.
- Katy Perry on Hope
- The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.
- The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
- Samuel Johnson on Hope
- 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.'
- Paul Theroux on Hope
- 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.
- William Hazlitt on Hope
- 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.
- Eric Alterman on Hope
- The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
- Samuel Johnson on Hope
- The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
- Edgar Allan Poe on Hope
- The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.'
- Roger Goodell on Hope
- 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.
- Simone Weil on 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.
- Henry Louis Gates on Hope
- 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.
- Curt Schilling on Hope
- The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.
- Dolly Parton on Hope
- The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
- Walter Benjamin on Hope
- The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
- Dario Argento on Hope
- The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
- Clarence Darrow on Hope
- 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.
- Chloe Sevigny on Hope
- The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
- Stephen Ambrose on Hope
- 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.
- Thabo Mbeki on Hope
- The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
- Frank Lloyd Wright on Hope
- 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.
- Audre Lorde on Hope
- The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
- Anne Lamott on Hope
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