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).
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“Good news doesn’t necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one’s fellow man.” -Patti Smith
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“Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.” -Samuel Smiles
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“If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.” -Jim DeMint
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“Our shared conservative values, our belief in the individual is the great hope of our nation.” -Rick Perry
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“I hope people don’t compare 2D and 3D because 3D’s new, it’s unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we’re jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a…
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“I hope all you young girls see yourself up there… we were just like you.” -Mia Hamm
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“I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.” -William Jennings Bryan
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“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
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“I hope my own children never have to fight a war.” -George H. W. Bush
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“I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.” -Zinedine Zidane
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“I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.” -Keanu Reeves
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“I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they’ll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.” -Jennifer Lopez
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“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…
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“Whether you’ve seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.” -Martha Beck
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“Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.” -Anne Lamott
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“I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness.” -Shania Twain
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“To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.” -Wendell Berry
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“Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.” -George Weinberg
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“Let’s hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply won’t buy.” -Simon Mainwaring
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“And if there’s any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there’s any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.” -Phil Ochs
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“I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn’t there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.” -Liam Neeson
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“Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.” -Daniel Burnham
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“Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.” -Charles Kettering
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“I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.” -Ogden Nash
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“Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.” -Benjamin Banneker
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“I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.” -Daniel Inouye
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“Beware how you take away hope from any human being.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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“Well, what was called the blessed hope of the Bible is that one day Jesus Christ would come back again, start a whole new era, that this world order that we know it would change into something that would be wonderful that we’d call the millennium.” -Pat Robertson
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“My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.” -Annie Leibovitz
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“One thing I can’t do, and I hope that there are other people out there that feel the same way, is climb a rope. Oh my gosh, it’s so hard to climb rope! It’s all about grip and arms.” -Katy Perry
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“I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.” -Evelyn Glennie
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“Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.” -Robert Browning
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“And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.” -Patti Davis
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“Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.” -Michael Palin
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“I want you to take away the hope because that’s the thing that’s killing me.” -Denis Leary
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“Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.” -Jane Addams
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“Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.” -Daniel Day-Lewis
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“We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.” -Ivan Illich
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“Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.” -Marco Rubio
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“‘Peace Train’ is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.” -Cat Stevens
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“I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.” -Maynard James Keenan
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“Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.” -Billy Corgan
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“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” -Tom Bodett
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“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
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“Acting is something I love. It’s a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don’t think it’s any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the…
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“I think, my generation, it’s hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.” -Shia LaBeouf
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“But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.” -Charles Ives
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“I’m going home now. I apologize for what I said. I hope you can forget it, but I’m going home right now.” -Benjamin Day
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“We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.” -Emile M. Cioran
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“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
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“The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in what we hope for.” -Bryant H. McGill
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“At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.” -Stanislav Grof
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“I just hope that theaters remain. I think there’s something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There’s something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions.” -Jeff Bridges
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“I hope to be scaring children for the rest of my life.” -Tom Felton
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“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.” -Gertrude Stein
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“I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.” -Miley Cyrus
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“Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn’t, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.” -Ivo Andric
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“Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.” -Thornton Wilder
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“I’m actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it’s a depressing word. I don’t want to hope – I want to know. Like I don’t hope there’s a God, I know there’s a God.” -Kelly Clarkson
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“What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?” -Rose Kennedy
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“Right now I’m not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again.” -Stevie Nicks
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“Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.” -Franz Schubert
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“People always ask me if I’m going to stop modeling because I have started an acting career. I hope to continue to model for years to come.” -Tyra Banks
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“Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.” -Jonas Salk
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“One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“Hope and change? We’re not doing that anymore. They’re doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.” -Paul Ryan
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“I hope when I’m dead I’ll be considered an icon, though.” -Lady Gaga
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“Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.” -Clarence Darrow
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“Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you’re done, you want to say, ‘I hope you all enjoy it.’” -Jennifer Aniston
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“There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.” -Anwar Sadat
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“I doubt I’ll be singing forever, because at some point people aren’t going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I’ll still get the opportunity to write songs.” -Adele
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“I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.” -Alanis Morissette
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“Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.” -Alphonsus Liguori
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“We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.” -Michael Novak
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“Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.” -Friedrich Schiller
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“I hope that women everywhere will wear this jewelry and feel the passion and love that is, to me, the real spirit of True Harmony.” -Carol Alt
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“If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude… I hope to make you use your imagination.” -Hedy Lamarr
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“All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.” -Magic Johnson
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“Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.” -Elie Wiesel
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“A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.” -Baltasar Gracian
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“I hope I’m wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy – worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.” -Madeleine Albright
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“Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.” -Sarah Ban Breathnach
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“Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.” -Ovid
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“Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced… because these things are unreliable and fleeting.” -Charles Stanley
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“I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don’t take counsel of your fears.” -Thomas S. Monson
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“But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There’s incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.” -Dave Matthews
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“When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.” -John Dryden
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“One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.” -George Allen, Sr.
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“I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‘race’ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.” -Margaret Atwood
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“Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.” -Yoshio Taniguchi
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“If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.” -Doug Coupland
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“It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.” -Jonathan Carroll
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“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.” -Hodding Carter
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“It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.” -Eric Hoffer
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“Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.” -George W. Bush
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“The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.” -Stanley Kubrick
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“About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.” -Josh Billings
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“I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That’s what I want for my son.” -Charlize Theron
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“I don’t feel a lack of hope. It’s just disappointment that after all these years we’re still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.” -Geezer Butler
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“A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even… without any hope of doing it well.” -Oliver Herford
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“Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.” -William Ralph Inge
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“Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he’s dead.” -Judith Viorst
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“A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.” -David Hume
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“A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn’t have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.” -Maria Sharapova
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“If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.” -Joseph Addison
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“Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.” -William Hazlitt
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“What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?” -Immanuel Kant
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“Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.” -William Wordsworth
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“I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.” -Paul Tillich
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“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
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“Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.” -Claude Debussy
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“If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.” -David Brainerd
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“I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn’t write anything without hope in it.” -Oscar Hammerstein II
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“Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You’re never as good as you’d like to be. So there’s always something to hope for.” -Washington Irving
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“Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.” -Susanna Moodie
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“I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.” -Jerry Lewis
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“In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.” -Stendhal
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“A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.” -John Ciardi
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“Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
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“Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.” -Stephen Jay Gould
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“Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.” -Jim Valvano
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“All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything.” -Ahmed Ali
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“Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope – and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.” -Bob Riley
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“In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don’t do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I’ll benefit from it.” -David Schwimmer
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“The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.” -Thomas Huxley
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“I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn’t intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.” -E. O. Wilson
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“The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.” -George Lucas
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“Where I am today… I still have my ups and downs, but I take it one day at a time and I just hope that I can be the best that I can possibly be, not only for myself, but also young people that are out there today that need someone to look up to.”…
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“Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.” -George Santayana
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“I do not at all have the mind of a bully… in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.” -Conrad Black
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“I hope I didn’t bore you too much with my life story.” -Elvis Presley
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“All I can do is leave it in God’s hands and hope that my fans feel where I’m coming from.” -Aaliyah
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“Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.” -Alexander Pope
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“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.” -Robert Green Ingersoll
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“When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.” -Jim Henson
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“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.” -E. M. Forster
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“This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.” -Lord Byron
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“If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.” -Jacques Yves Cousteau
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“When too many Americans don’t vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.” -Paul Wellstone
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“At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life’s all about.” -Janis Ian
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“From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever That dead men rise up never That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.” -Algernon Charles Swinburne
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“I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their…
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“I’ve learnt that through life you just get on with it. You’re going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.” -Roger Moore
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“If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don’t do it, and it won’t happen.” -Desiderius Erasmus
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“I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.” -James Herriot
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“I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.” -Orson Scott Card
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“Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.” -Karl Rahner
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“It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.” -Edsger Dijkstra
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“You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.” -Stephen King
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“You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety…
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“An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.” -Emil Zatopek
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“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.” -William Butler Yeats
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“Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.” -Stephen Hawking
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“I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.” -Chief Joseph
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“I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That’s all any of us can hope for.” -April Winchell
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“There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.” -Salma Hayek
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“I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.” -Brian Clough
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“Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.” -Desmond Tutu
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“Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they’re better than other human beings.” -James A. Baldwin
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“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.” -William Cowper
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“For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I…
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“A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.” -Grandma Moses
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“Yesterday I was a dog. Today I’m a dog. Tomorrow I’ll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There’s so little hope for advancement.” -Charles M. Schulz
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“A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.” -Robert H. Schuller
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“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.” -Niels Bohr
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“Let’s drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let’s drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.” -Noel Coward
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