Despite the left’s best hopes, the Manafort indictment didn’t contain a single reference to the Trump campaign and the charges he faces are completely tailored to a decade of shady business deals overseas. Collusion wasn’t the center of the charges and President Donald Trump was left out of it.
Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that’s all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It’s a weird thing that happens when you’re an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people’s hopes or something.
You have tours that go to certain parts of the world to see a specific type of bird, and then you come back to Hollywood, and you see tour vans that go around in hopes of catching a glimpse of Halle Berry going out to get a newspaper.
The presence of the Holy Spirit is the keystone of all our hopes.
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
I had been attempting novels since I was 14 but always ran out of steam. High hopes, poor craftsmanship.
Don’t go into something you actually don’t know much about, in the hopes that you’re going to get really financially successful and rewarded… even though people think you’re, like, terrific.
My hope, it’s not only my hope, but all of the NHL hopes to raise hockey in China because it’s a good country to raise hockey.
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.
Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.
A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.
I have high hopes that GIS will become increasingly relevant for landscape architects as we make the tools easier to use for the design process of just inventory and mapping.
With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes.
I felt more doubtful than usual with ‘Goon Squad,’ because I knew that the book’s genre wasn’t easily named – Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? – and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest.
People’s real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you’re not sure what you really want or what you even really need.
Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
I try not to get my hopes up too high with anything, because I’ll never be let down that way.
I never entered the industry with hopes of making it big instantly.
You can’t just carry everyone else’s hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.
‘The Moonstone’ was all I could have hoped for. A mysterious, cursed jewel, wrested from India, only to be stolen later from a great British mansion. Enigmatic, dangerous priests who follow it across the ocean in hopes of wresting it back.
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
One hopes that good, sensible and brave people will continue to go into public life at all levels.
Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing.
With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
I think young women want to see themselves, and indeed their hopes and dreams, represented in characters.
I trained myself to not get my hopes up, because there were so many times in the room where you’d be like, ‘This feels amazing, this is a hit!’ And it never saw the light of day.
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people’s hopes.
Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.
A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.
Carter’s hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore.
My constant advice to my family – ‘hopes high, expectations low’ – is based on the idea that we can try our best to be perfect, but sometimes good enough has to be good enough.
When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
I don’t think anybody should do what they do in hopes of being successful. But I always expect myself to be successful at things. And if I’m not, I feel bad. I don’t care for failure. I’ve failed at a number of things, and it’s not my favorite state of mind. So I prefer success.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.
I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
I’m not a virtuoso on an instrument. You know, I’m not always singing in pitch. I laugh sometimes my way through the shows, but I’m an honest songwriter who’s always tried to bring the audience with me on my journey in hopes that they see their own lives reflected in the work.
The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.
Bill Clinton’s legacy on job creation should be assailed by none and admired by every presidential candidate who hopes to do the same.
The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn’t the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.
My parents were not very happy. They were very worried about me pursuing a career that even if I had talent might not give me the happiness and the success that they – any parent hopes for their child.
The best teachers, one hopes, don’t shout at their students – because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the best efforts of others. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, this wooing was a sufficiently fine art in itself to be the central focus of education.
Everyone at ComiXology has been very supportive and enthusiastic about getting ‘Youngblood’ as well as the rest of the Awesome/Extreme catalogue online. Hopes are high that this relationship leads to more online comics.
If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I’m researching and writing.
I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man’s political hopes and the ark of his safety.
Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‘human stratum’ may not be homogeneous.
When we first started ‘The Big Bang Theory,’ I would get incredibly nervous because it’s such a big show and I was just out of graduate school. I’d come in and have this huge responsibility for the one line that everyone hopes will bring down the house.
No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.
I’ve seen a lot of poverty – coming up as a young child, lost hopes and dreams and people that never had a chance to have a decent quality of life. I believe we can do a lot greater than that.
My father kind of had hopes that I was going to become an artist like him – the typical thing. Of course I could play guitar better than him when I was about 12. But I couldn’t paint better than him. So I went, ‘I’m going to be the guitarist of the house, not the painter.’
