Hope Quotes
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Speaking about myself, I've been pleasantly surprised that my older plays are still being performed. Most important is that they still have something to say to today's audience, in particular the young people who enjoy my plays. That's the best I could hope for, that the plays aren't single-use products of one era.
Vaclav Havel
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One of our fundamental human needs is finding our partner that we hope we will stay with for the rest of our lives. You often find the same search in other genres. The mystery novel has a romance subplot. Literary novels often focus on that relationship but do not often end well.
Lauren Willig
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We know we have to improve defensively to be a contender down the stretch. I just hope we don't run out of time.
Alonzo Mourning
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I know where I'm coming from; I know what I bring and what I take. I take more than I bring; I bring hope, but I give nothing. That's not the role I'm proud of.
Don McCullin
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I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.
Lady Gaga
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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 hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.
Joanne Rowling
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I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there's still time.
W. S. Merwin
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Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)
Nalini Singh
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My plan was always to leave school and live in a flat with some friends, have a 9 to 5 job, and try to get as many gigs as I could. I wanted to keep writing and then eventually, in my twenties, head to a record label and hope they'd sit down and listen to my book of songs, sign me as a songwriter and maybe an artist in development.
Ella Henderson
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I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness workers, and I am all for more funding for mental-health care and research - but not in the vain hope that it will curb violence.
Martin Seligman
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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When I first started, there were, like... two or three critics that you thought, 'Alright, I hope I get a good review from them.' And now there's millions of them.
Billy Crystal
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I am a man of peace, God knows how I love peace; but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.
Lajos Kossuth
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Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.
P. D. James
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When you stop hoping you start settling.
Valorie Burton
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Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.
Bryant H. McGill
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They want to do all of their investigations. I don’t know. All of the thinking that goes into it. But we did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term. I hope they’re not looking at this politically. I do think we ought it to the American people to call it what it is.
Dana Perino
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As soon as I saw tattoos as a way to tell your story, I thought, 'Oh my gosh, I totally get it.' So I got my first tattoo a couple of years ago, and it's the word 'hope' on my left arm. It has a couple of dots at the end for each of my kids.
Kristian Bush Sugarland
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The happiest people are fearless dreamers. They use their imaginations to create hope and possibility.
Ian K. Smith
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I hope to spend more time with my family.
Lin Dan
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It is of great concern that the fabric of African life, its very source of hope and stability, is threatened by divorce, abortion, prostitution, human trafficking, and a contraception mentality.
Pope Benedict XVI
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People think I'm thick because of the characters I play. I think I'm brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am.
Kevin Whately
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It is a great pleasure to live with positive hope that the most deprived will gain access into the Kingdom of God.
Mathieu Kerekou