You have doubtless heard, my dear mother, the misfortune of Madame de Chartres, whose child is born dead. But I would rather have even that, terrible as it is, than be as I am without hope of any children.
Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family – that’s impossible. It lies, instead, in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
The point about hope is that it is something that occurs in very dark moments. It is like a flame in the darkness; it isn’t like a confidence and a promise.
I made ‘Bowling for Columbine’ in the hope the school shootings would stop and that we would address the issue of how easy it is to get a gun in the United States, and tragically, those school shootings continue.
I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
In terms of being able to renew my nation, to be able to be able to bring back a devastated country, to restore hope to our people, to lift women and to give them a new horizon, a new ambition and new dreams, in respect of all of that, I think we’ve accomplished it, and I feel very good about that.
I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
I’ve said to people before that I’m going to do my very best to make it, and I’m not going to give up. And that’s true. But I might not make it. And if I don’t make it, the Marathon of Hope better continue.
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
I hope when I’m 80 that I get to Heaven and God doesn’t recognise me.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
There’s no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I’d sit down and doze off.
Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don’t want my songs to make people sad. It’s very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.
If you help elect more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green light to move forward. It means hope to a nation that has given up, because if a gay person makes it, the doors are open to everyone.
We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
I hope people remember me for the kind of person that I am, not because of what I do.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.
Hope looks forward. Faith knows it has already received and acts accordingly.
Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.
I’m always happy, in every game, every win I keep writing my history, and I hope to do even more from now on.
I’ve been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No. They gave me hope, and they gave me encouragement, and they gave me a vision. That came from my education.
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today’s winners are tomorrow’s blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.
If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‘satisfactory,’ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?
In the end, I hope there’s a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.
I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture – you always can hope for another project to design.
I hope royalty continues forever. This is the thing that can contribute to peace throughout the world.
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today’s winners are tomorrow’s blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.
I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.
Sure, I love people, and I want to communicate with people. I mean, what is music anyway? It’s a form of communication – at least for me it is. And that’s why I play the kind of music that I think – that I hope – can communicate with people.
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 hold of it more easily.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
I’m really fun. I’m ridiculously fun. I hope I’m infectiously fun.
For a film maker, an Oscar is like a Nobel Prize, you know. So I am very happy… delighted. There is nothing more after this. I cannot hope to get anything more prestigious.
Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
The point about hope is that it is something that occurs in very dark moments. It is like a flame in the darkness; it isn’t like a confidence and a promise.
I hope to stop discrimination against young transgender people.
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Hope is not a matter of age.
We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.
A lot of people have their big dreams and get knocked down and don’t have things go their way. And you never give up hope, and you really just hold on to it. Hard work and perserverance. You just keep getting up and getting up, and then you get that breakthrough.
Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.
Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.
Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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.
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
I’ve always followed my heart and pursued my dreams, and I imagine that people find that inspiring. I hope that is the effect I have on my fans and people in general. I definitely want to project a positive energy out into the world.
