Stephen Sondheim Quotes

I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!

Stephen Sondheim

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• There is a big divergence between views on a variety of policy issues from fiscal stimulus to financial regulation. It's my hope and my ambition for the economics profession that as we advance our knowledge, that those discussions will narrow in their focus, and that it will help to have more prudent policy-making down the road.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • Help
  • Hope
  • Knowledge

• I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • People
  • Up
  • Hope

• I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best.

  

  Wale
  • Think
  • Hope
  • Best

• I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. The plot needed to do what it needed to do. But I'm a little surprised to find myself looking a little bit like an advocate of teen marriage. It takes some exceptional circumstances for that to be a reasonable idea.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • People
  • Hope
  • Myself

• I had two jobs coming out of school: I did a play, 'The Great White Hope.' I played the boxer Jack Johnson. And I was the lead in this indie film. Then I moved to Los Angeles because New York was cold and it was really too quiet for me at that time. I was out of school; I was hungry. The auditions were trickling in, and I was antsy and ready to go.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • True
  • Hope

• I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Work
  • God
  • Believe

• Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Work
  • Long
  • High

• Now, being one who lived in the era of Obama, there are so many markers of improvement made. It's hard to be mindful of that, in the same way you're going, 'Oh everything's cool now!' and it isn't. But I try to be mindful of how much of an improvement there has been because that gives hope. You need hope. I need hope!

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Hope
  • Cool
  • Improvement

• I hope people think of me as a bit older. I do have a beard. That makes me look very old.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • People
  • Hope
  • Beard

• Wanda and Reliance are two of the largest private conglomerates in their respective countries. By joining our strengths together, we hope our cooperation will bring mutual benefits and great results.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Great
  • Together
  • Hope

• Fond archer, Hope! who tak'st thy aim so far,That still or short, or wide thine arrows are!

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Hope
  • Archer

• History has placed a tremendous responsibility on the shoulders of this country's leadership, namely the responsibility of moving our country away from the current course of conflict and confrontation... The hope of millions of South Africans is fixed on us. The future of southern Africa depends on us. We dare not waver or fail.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Country
  • History
  • Hope

• The mass and majesty of this world, all That carries weight and always weighs the same Lay in the hands of others; they were small And could not hope for help and no help came: What their foes like to do was done, their shame Was all the worst could wish; they lost their pride And died as men before their bodies died.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • World
  • Men
  • Done

• Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. Isn’t that true?

  

  Amy Tan
  • True
  • Hope
  • Dream

• I'd like to say 'thank you' on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we passed the audition.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Hope

• I hope that with our music we can inspire other people to be creative and to use their imagination, because it is something that is so lacking nowadays. You have virtual reality, MTV, video games and VCR's. Nobody really wants to think about things or create things. You have programs on a computer which will write a poem for you.

  

  Brian Hugh Warner
  • People
  • Music
  • Hope

• I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

  

  Aeschylus
  • Men
  • Hope

• I owe baseball all that I have and much of what I hope to have. Baseball made my entrance to the film industry immeasurably easier than I could have made it alone. To the greatest game in the world I shall be eternally in debt.

  

  Chuck Connors
  • World
  • Hope
  • Game

• Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Reach

• I think the Republican Party has changed. I think our politics have changed. The parties have deteriorated in their strength. They decentralized. We have these new super PACs and outside organizations and the Tea Party, a libertarian movement in the Republican Party. It's very different. And I think these Republicans now are very scared.

  

  Stuart Rothenberg
  • Different
  • Party
  • Tea

• I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused.

  

  Marlee Matlin
  • Money
  • She
  • Obstacles

• I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Hope