Hopes Quotes

I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

The president welcomes peaceful protests - it is a time-honored tradition. The president agrees violence is not the answer in Iraq, and that's why he hopes Saddam Hussein will disarm.

Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

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.

I actually have great hopes for the future.

In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.

In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.

I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.

A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects.

Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.

No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.

A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.

In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?