Hope Quotes

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.

I hope you will respond to the crisis of confidence that Watergate has created by opening up your administration and reaching out to people in a more magnanimous spirit.

I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.

I want to help people with depression understand that there is hope, so that they can get the help they need to live rich, fulfilling lives.

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.

Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

I hope more people decide to become organ donors.

If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope.

I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.

The atheist has no hope.

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.

And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.

Hope is a very thin diet.

I think you always hope you can play forever, but you always realize that time will come... I was fortunate I was able to make a decision, move on and do it comfortably.

Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it.

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

I hope to grow up and see myself accepting myself and accepting time going by and everything falls.

I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.

Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line item on customer's power bills.