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).

  • “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…

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  • “I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.” -David Rockefeller

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  • “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.” -Frank R. Wolf

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  • “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!” -Jordin Sparks

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  • “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.” -Katherine Jenkins

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  • “Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.” -Angela Merkel

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  • “It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical… I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see.” -Marion Cotillard

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  • “There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.” -Emma Goldman

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  • “There are a lot of movies I’d like to throw away. That’s not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don’t work.” -Kiefer Sutherland

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  • “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…

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  • “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.” -Marlee Matlin

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  • “I hope I’m not a tourist attraction – I’m sure that they come here really because St. Andrews is just amazing, a beautiful place.” -Prince William

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  • “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.” -Leonardo DiCaprio

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  • “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.” -Alicia Keys

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  • “You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you’ve provided them a foundation for what’s right and what isn’t.” -Jack Nicklaus

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  • “Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.” -Lillian Hellman

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  • “I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose – although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.” -Danny Boyle

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  • “In between films I like to travel and hope to visit every continent before I become a mother.” -Diane Kruger

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  • “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

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  • “I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.” -Harvey Weinstein

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  • “I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.” -Gerald R. Ford

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  • “The great hope of society is in individual character.” -William Ellery Channing

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  • “I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can’t predict.” -Robert Duvall

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  • “Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don’t start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true they just hope to find out what reality is like.” -John Polkinghorne

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  • “I don’t know how many good books I still have in me I hope there are another four or five.” -Haruki Murakami

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  • “I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I’ve gotten ridiculous offers.” -Tracey Ullman

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  • “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.” -Mikhail Bakunin

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  • “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.” -Marion Zimmer Bradley

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  • “You never know what movie I will be in next, but let’s just hope it’s sells (for my sake at least)!” -Cameron Diaz

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  • “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.” -Haile Gebrselassie

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  • “To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.” -Pearl S. Buck

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  • “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.” -Sonia Sotomayor

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  • “There’s always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope.” -Jonathan Sacks

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  • “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.” -Ursula K. Le Guin

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  • “Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.” -Patrick Swayze

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  • “I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.” -Robert Mapplethorpe

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  • “For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.” -Karl Rove

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  • “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.” -Paula Deen

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  • “I’ve tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we’ll win again, but I’ve also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.” -Mike Krzyzewski

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  • “Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.” -Rudy Giuliani

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  • “I think they’d rather us follow our hearts and I hope that’s what some people will understand.” -Fred Durst

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  • “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.” -Joe Lando

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  • “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.” -Jean Kerr

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  • “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.” -Tom Hanks

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  • “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…

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  • “If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.” -Orville Wright

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  • “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.” -will.i.am

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  • “Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children’s?” -King Abdullah II

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  • “Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible.” -Elizabeth Bowen

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  • “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.” -Jay Leno

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  • “I don’t consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I’m growing.” -Paul Simon

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  • “They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.” -Christopher Walken

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  • “One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.” -Thomas Reed

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  • “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.” -Joel Madden

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  • “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.” -Eddie Vedder

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  • “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.” -Christian Bale

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  • “I hope to inspire people, influence people.” -Ashley Tisdale

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  • “There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing – but we all do and call it Hope.” -E. W. Howe

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  • “Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.” -B. H. Liddell Hart

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  • “I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn’t exploit our relationship.” -Laura Linney

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  • “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.” -John le Carre

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  • “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.” -Jason Reitman

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  • “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.” -Nicolaus Copernicus

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  • “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.” -LL Cool J

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  • “I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.” -Gustav Mahler

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  • “I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.” -Dean Koontz

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  • “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.” -Daisaku Ikeda

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  • “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.” -Ryan Gosling

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  • “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.” -Miranda Lambert

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  • “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.” -Luigi Pirandello

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  • “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.” -James Wolcott

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  • “I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.” -Howard Mumford Jones

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  • “There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.” -Harry Bridges

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  • “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.” -Russell Simmons

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  • “I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there’s hope out there.” -Danielle Steel

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  • “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.” -James Otis

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  • “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…

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  • “The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.” -Max Eastman

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  • “I hope to work harder than ever to help people around the world.” -Lech Walesa

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  • “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.” -Lin Yutang

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  • “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.” -Knute…

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  • “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.” -James Lovelock

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  • “I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.” -Arthur Miller

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  • “Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.” -Norman Cousins

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  • “I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.” -Lena Dunham

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  • “I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we’ve been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.” -George McGovern

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  • “The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.” -Walter Benjamin

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  • “My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I’m also very proud of being a very American chef.” -Bobby Flay

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  • “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.” -Harlan Coben

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  • “I hope in my lifetime we can all continue to laugh at ourselves and not put down anyone for what they weigh.” -Richard Simmons

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  • “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.” -Studs Terkel

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  • “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.” -Charles Babbage

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  • “I don’t think I’m a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.” -Spike Lee

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  • “We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.” -Bill Vaughan

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  • “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.” -Nick Stahl

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  • “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.” -Jack White

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  • “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.” -Jesse Jackson

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  • “If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.” -Francois Rabelais

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  • “Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.” -Bruce Barton

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  • “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.” -John Mayer

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  • “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.” -Josh Hartnett

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  • “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

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  • “I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I’m growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things –…

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  • “I mean, why am I considered an ‘it girl?’ Because I’m in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here’s the thing with ‘it girl’ status. It’s great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how…

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  • “We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.” -William Hague

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  • “We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.” -Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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  • “A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.” -Georges Bernanos

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  • “On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!” -Alexander Henry

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  • “What is music anyway? It’s a form of communication, and that’s why I play the kind of music that I think – that I hope – can communicate with people.” -Kenny G

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  • “See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It’s not church. It’s not serious.” -Charles Barkley

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  • “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.” -Sandra Day O’Connor

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  • “I hope there are some audiophiles still out there.” -Norah Jones

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  • “You always hear people saying, ‘I hope I’m not turning into my dad’, but I’d be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.” -Johnny Vegas

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  • “My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs – in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.” -Daniel Goleman

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  • “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.” -Vaclav Havel

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  • “I still believe in a place called Hope.” -William J. Clinton

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  • “One must not hope to be more than one can be.” -Nicolas Chamfort

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  • “Some people think I’m a total moron and I would hope most people think I’m very good at what I do.” -Dan Abrams

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  • “I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, ‘cuz he ain’t gotta worry about getting re-elected.” -Samuel L. Jackson

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  • “From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us the hearing of the word and prayer.” -William Ames

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  • “The Middle East is hopeful. There’s hope there.” -Joe Biden

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  • “I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.” -Aung San Suu Kyi

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  • “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.” -Octavia Butler

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  • “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

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  • “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.” -Alex Haley

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  • “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.” -Sammy Davis, Jr.

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  • “There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.” -Luc de Clapiers

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  • “Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.” -Rita Mae Brown

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  • “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.” -Thomas Frank

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  • “I mean, I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one, I had surgeries and stuff. And so you get these letters in the mail that just, they are crazy, they are just like, yes, well our son is dealing with the same thing and we saw you…

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  • “In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.” -Nancy Pelosi

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  • “There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.” -Baruch Spinoza

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  • “I hope to bring people to God with my songs.” -Mahalia Jackson

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  • “A widow’s refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.” -Samuel Richardson

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  • “On the other hand, I believe there’s hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.” -Kathryn Bigelow

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  • “In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it’s always about the next challenge.” -Tony Blair

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  • “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.” -Danica McKellar

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  • “My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.” -Andrew Young

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  • “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.” -Melissa Etheridge

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  • “As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct.” -Christina Ricci

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  • “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

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  • “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.” -Jeanne Moreau

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  • “Obama won the presidency on the strength of his message and the skills of the messenger. Now the talk of hope and change feels out of tune when so many Americans are out of work, over-mortgaged, and worried that life will be even tougher for their children.” -Ron Fournier

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  • “You know, it shouldn’t just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories – just to express human experience from a woman’s perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point.…

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  • “I’ve convinced myself – I hope I’m right – that children despair of you if you don’t tell them the truth.” -Maurice Sendak

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  • “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.” -David Suzuki

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  • “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.” -Elizabeth Edwards

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  • “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.” -Barbara Kingsolver

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  • “All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.” -John Podhoretz

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  • “We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.” -Douglas Horton

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  • “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.” -Bob Uecker

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  • “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.” -Matthew Bourne

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  • “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.” -Miguel de Unamuno

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  • “I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.” -David Duchovny

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  • “Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It’s the sprint. The marathon is hope.” -Mike Huckabee

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  • “My sweetest hope is to lose hope.” -Pierre Corneille

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  • “You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.” -Hugh Laurie

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  • “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.” -Imran Khan

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  • “Let’s hope you feel better now.” -Jack Kevorkian

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  • “In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.” -Francois Hollande

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  • “If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.” -Eldridge Cleaver

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  • “When I get into bed at night, I hope I don’t get into it alone!” -Calvin Klein

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  • “I have met a few Casanovas I like and a few I have not liked – and I hope to meet a few more.” -Sienna Miller

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  • “I’m really fun. I’m ridiculously fun. I hope I’m infectiously fun.” -Kesha

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  • “Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.” -Herman Melville

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  • “The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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  • “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.” -Tom T. Hall

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  • “Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.” -Robert Frank

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  • “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.” -John Breaux

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  • “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.” -Harry Nilsson

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  • “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.” -Don Shula

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  • “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.” -Bono

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  • “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.” -Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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  • “I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.” -Pope Benedict XVI

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  • “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

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  • “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.” -Mark Zuckerberg

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  • “I hope I die before I get old.” -Roger Daltrey

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  • “Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.” -Loretta Lynn

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  • “Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.” -Edward Gibbon

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  • “To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there’s more reason to fear than to hope.” -Miguel de Cervantes

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