Asmaa Mahfouz Quotes

Never say there’s no hope. Hope disappears only when you say there’s no hope.

Asmaa Mahfouz

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• Do we mean love, when we say love?

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Love
  • Mean
  • Say

• I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the U.S. supports.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Hope
  • Freedom
  • Inspiration

• I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• 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 feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Long
  • Live
  • Hope

• Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Hope
  • Despair
  • Blues

• Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Different
  • Hope

• I think it's important to be diverse, and I hope we continue to see that as a trend in the fashion industry.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Important
  • Hope
  • Fashion

• I think it just takes one little snowflake to start a snowball to go down the hill. My contribution and, say, Kendrick Lamar's and some chosen others' start the snowball. That's all I can hope for. I don't know if I'm comfortable being quote-unquote a leader.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Hope
  • Start
  • Leader

• If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • You
  • Say
  • Prince

• I hope that I have had some effect on the fact that Israel is a start-up nation.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Nation

• I know I got to do something that's one in a million, to escape a refugee camp, to come to this country and have so many doors open for me. So I want to go back and make a difference and give motivation or hope to all the kids that never got to leave or have the privilege that I did.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Country
  • Kids
  • Hope

• Now that I'm 50 and respectably settled in New England and markedly happier and more contented than I was in my youth, I modestly hope there's time to realize some of my youthful goals before I croak, but I'll take what I can get.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Goals

• When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives, when you deprive them of that choice, then you expect them to fight for these rights.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Live
  • Hope

• My gravestone will say, 'Here Lies Damon Lindelof - Or Does He?'

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Say
  • Here
  • Gravestone

• I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Say
  • Holidays
  • Exploited

• Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Color
  • Say
  • Yellow

• 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

• Pyongyang watchers consider the regime to be so hungry for economic growth, progress and other goodies as to have no pride, no mission, and no commitment to victory, real victory. It's all eros and no thymos. On this error rests our administration's hope for denuclearization.

  

  Brian Reynolds Myers
  • Real
  • Hope
  • Growth

• The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received.

  

  Confucius
  • Hope
  • Justice
  • Virtue

• There were a lot of gifted amateurs in my day. Most of the kids now play fantastically well. I think there are so many bands around now who might get there, but it's a tougher journey.

  

  Nick Mason Pink Floyd
  • Kids
  • Journey

• There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Art
  • Happiness

• My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

  

  John Cusack
  • Job

• Never say there’s no hope. Hope disappears only when you say there’s no hope.

  

  Asmaa Mahfouz
  • Hope
  • Say
  • Disappears