hope

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘hope’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.” -Kurt Cobain

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  • “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.” -Jan Brewer

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  • “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.” -Fuzzy Zoeller

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  • “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.” -John Clayton

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  • “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…

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  • “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.” -Marvin…

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  • “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.” -Robert Wyatt

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  • “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.” -Emilio Estevez

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  • “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.” -NeNe Leakes

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  • “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.” -Ellen Barkin

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  • “I really hope that we’ll have a sustainable future on this planet, I really do. So I probably geek out mostly about learning more about how potentially we can hopefully make that happen, hopefully we’re not too far lost.” -Ellen Page

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  • “The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, ‘I made my parents proud.’” -Roger Goodell

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  • “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.” -Marat Safin

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  • “I’d die if I was Madonna. I’d die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don’t know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me.” -Alicia Silverstone

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  • “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.” -Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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  • “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…

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  • “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.” -Bill Keller

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  • “You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.” -Sharron Angle

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  • “I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do.” -Faye Dunaway

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  • “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.” -Jet Li

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  • “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.” -Ken Hill

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  • “I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date.” -Niklas Zennstrom

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  • “I hope to work with kids any way possible.” -Jenna Bush

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  • “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.” -Marcy Kaptur

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  • “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.” -George Dennison Prentice

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  • “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.” -M. Night Shyamalan

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  • “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.” -Patrick Swayze

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  • “We go through the whole season working on next season’s car and developing the car and making sure we fit in the car and all that sort of stuff. And we obviously give ideas of what we would hope next year’s car would have even if it’s small things like buttons on the steering wheel…

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  • “My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.” -George Papandreou

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  • “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.” -Nate Ruess

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  • “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.”…

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  • “Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.” -Ouida

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  • “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.” -Oliver North

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  • “Our only hope is to control the vote.” -Medgar Evers

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  • “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.” -Malcolm Turnbull

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  • “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.” -John Grisham

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  • “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.” -Dan Lipinski

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  • “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.” -Joel Schumacher

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  • “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.” -Barbara Boxer

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  • “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

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  • “I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality.” -Mario Monti

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  • “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.” -Michael Morpurgo

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  • “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.” -Paul Walker

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  • “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.” -Carol Vorderman

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  • “I think if there’s a great depression there might be some hope.” -Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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  • “I hope to make acting my career for the rest of my life, if I can.” -Chloe Moretz

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  • “My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.” -Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

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  • “I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.” -Andrew Wiles

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  • “No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What’s cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don’t want to do that.” -Ed Koch

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  • “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.” -Joseph Barbera

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  • “I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself… I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.” -David Blaine

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  • “I hope I never get so old I get religious.” -Ingmar Bergman

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  • “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.” -Paul Thomas Anderson

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  • “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.” -Dave Matthews

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  • “We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.” -Mahmoud Abbas

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  • “Well I certainly have learned and I hope I’m moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.” -Jeffrey Archer

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  • “Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.” -George Will

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  • “Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don’t ignore feelings and emotions.” -Anne Stevenson

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  • “I hope one day I will host my own charity event to give back to society.” -Yani Tseng

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  • “I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.” -Jayson Blair

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  • “So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.” -Mika Waltari

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  • “The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife’s spirits.” -John Gay

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  • “Whatever I do, I hope it’s quality, I hope it’s something that’s class.” -Garth Brooks

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  • “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.” -John Hench

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  • “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.” -Gabrielle Roy

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  • “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…

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  • “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…

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  • “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.” -Khloe Kardashian

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  • “Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.” -Antonio Porchia

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  • “There’s no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I’d sit down and doze off.” -Robert Smith

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  • “Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.” -Seamus Heaney

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  • “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?” -John James Audubon

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  • “I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again.” -Lesley Garrett

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  • “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.” -Howard Dean

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  • “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.” -Bill Owens

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  • “Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.” -Bernard Berenson

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  • “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.” -Neil LaBute

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  • “Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn’t bother fighting it.” -Craig Bruce

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  • “Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.” -Frances Rodman

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  • “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.” -Jonny Lang

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  • “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.’” -Chelsea Clinton

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  • “I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am.” -Steve Yzerman

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  • “I hope that when I’m 80 years old, people will still be talking about my wedding.” -Jennifer Hudson

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  • “Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.” -Algernon Charles Swinburne

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  • “Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.” -Kevin James

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  • “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.” -Dionne Warwick

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  • “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.” -Kate Middleton

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  • “We’re reclaiming America and restoring honor. I believe we do that with faith, with hope, with charity, and honoring our brothers and our sisters as we honor each other.” -Alveda King

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  • “I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.” -Victoria Justice

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  • “Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.” -Salman Khan

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  • “Hope springs eternal, even in politics.” -Gwen Ifill

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  • “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.” -Frank Gehry

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  • “I hope girls read what I say in interviews – they should just be themselves.” -Taylor Momsen

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  • “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.” -Corazon Aquino

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  • “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.” -Frank B. Kellogg

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  • “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.’” -Tom Cruise

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  • “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.” -Jerry Costello

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  • “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.” -Anish Kapoor

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  • “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

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  • “I remember thinking, That’s what I need – and that hope was in Jesus Christ.” -Willie Aames

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  • “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!”…

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  • “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.” -George Carey

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  • “I hope to get out before they start football next year.” -Bear Bryant

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  • “Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it’s a better something.” -Moon Unit Zappa

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  • “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.” -Alphonse Karr

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  • “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.” -Edith Sitwell

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  • “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.” -Thom Yorke

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  • “Like when I host a party. I hope my guests get along. But if not, how interesting!” -Andy Cohen

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  • “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.” -Barney Frank

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  • “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…

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  • “I would hope everyone would be a feminist.” -Mia Wasikowska

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  • “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.” -Bette Midler

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  • “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.” -Jake Roberts

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  • “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.” -Mitch Daniels

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  • “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.” -Charles…

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  • “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.” -William Christopher

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  • “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.” -Gustav Stresemann

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  • “TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day’s lines while you are shooting today’s scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.” -Sharon Stone

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  • “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

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  • “I hope this doesn’t sound pompous but I don’t think of myself as famous, whatever fame I’ve got has come through what I’ve done and associations of things I’ve done.” -Peter Cushing

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  • “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.” -Josh Radnor

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  • “The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.” -Dario Argento

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  • “Having kids is something I want to see in my future – I hope.” -Rachel Bilson

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  • “I don’t care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.” -Virgil Thomson

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  • “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…

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  • “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?’” -Anna Kendrick

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  • “You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.” -Mike Huckabee

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  • “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.” -Benazir Bhutto

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  • “Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let’s hope they make out as well as I did.” -Bobby Darin

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  • “My book ‘Trust Your Heart’, which is the story of my life, will be followed by ‘Singing Lessons’, a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.” -Judy Collins

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  • “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

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  • “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.” -Nancy Reagan

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  • “You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.” -Charles Ives

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  • “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.” -Anne Tyler

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  • “I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.” -Robert Capa

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  • “People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they’re right.” -David Brudnoy

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  • “I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there’s always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.” -Howard Nemerov

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  • “When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.” -Hilaire Belloc

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  • “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.” -Barbara Kingsolver

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  • “I hope I can help guys come out and say, ‘All right, dude, I got a manicure… and I liked it.’” -Ryan Seacrest

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  • “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.” -Billie Jean King

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  • “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.” -Ricky Skaggs

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  • “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.” -Mariah Carey

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  • “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.” -John Boehner

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  • “If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.” -Eamon de Valera

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  • “I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you’ve got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.” -George Foreman

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  • “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.” -Frank Lampard

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  • “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.” -Anthony Edwards

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  • “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.” -Gerard Way

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  • “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.” -Jennifer Granholm

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  • “There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.” -Paul Auster

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  • “I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you’re going through to realize that you’re not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it’s not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.” -Sarah McLachlan

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  • “I hope to be an actor and never retire.” -Dominic Monaghan

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  • “She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.” -Christina Rossetti

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  • “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…

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  • “I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.” -Debra Winger

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  • “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.” -Nick Clegg

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  • “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…

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  • “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.” -John Thorn

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  • “Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.” -Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

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  • “One of the things I like best about ‘Biggest Loser’ is being around people who are trying to make the right choices. When you feel defeated about your weight and your health, like there’s no hope, and you still make the choice to fight for it, to make the change happen no matter what people…

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  • “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,…

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  • “As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope.” -Annette Funicello

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  • “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.” -Michelle Bachelet

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  • “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.” -Francois Hollande

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  • “There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.” -Anil Kapoor

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  • “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.” -Paul Wellstone

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  • “I hope I’m still shooting when I’m 80.” -Conrad Hall

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  • “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

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  • “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.” -Henry A. Wallace

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  • “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.” -Dave Eggers

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  • “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.” -Axel Munthe

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  • “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.” -Beth Ditto

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  • “‘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.” -Channing Tatum

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  • “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.” -Larry Wall

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  • “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.” -Anthony Trollope

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  • “It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that’s correct, because there’s an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.” -Maggie Smith

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  • “Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator – life, liberty and freedom.” -Jim DeMint

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  • “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.” -Christopher Reeve

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  • “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?” -Vanessa Paradis

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