Hope Quotes

It would be fun to do a reunion show. I hope we do it some day, but it better be soon. We're all getting on.
– William Christopher Handy
It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.
– Jonathan Carroll
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
– William Makepeace Thackeray
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
– Oscar Wilde
It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes.
– John Clayton
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
– Robert H. Schuller
It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
– Marion Zimmer Bradley
It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
– Manuel Puig
Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel'? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.
– King Abdullah II
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
– Manuel Puig
Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.
– Daniel Day Lewis
In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
– Stanislav Grof
In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
– Barack Obama
In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
– Nancy Pelosi
In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.
– John Hench
In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it.
– Mitch Daniels
In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.
– Jeffrey Kluger
In between films I like to travel and hope to visit every continent before I become a mother.
– Diane Kruger
In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.
– Francois Hollande
If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.
– Robert Wyatt
If you're lucky enough to be involved in a film that's about something very real and that you hope will continue to hold up in 20 years' time it just gives you more energy and makes it feel all the more worthwhile.
– Eric Bana
If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.
– Hedy Lamarr
If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.
– Chuck Palahniuk
If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
– Patrick Swayze
If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.
– Tony Kushner
If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly.
– David Suzuki
If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.
– Jim DeMint
If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.
– Charles Schumer
If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.
– Ryan Gosling
If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
– Doug Coupland
If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.
– Gustav Stresemann
If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.
– Miguel de Unamuno
If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.
– Lance Armstrong
I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.
– Howard Mumford Jones
I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor.
– Judy Garland
I've had some incredible moments in my life - thus far. I hope a lot more are coming.
– Dionne Warwick
I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don't get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best.
– John Grisham
I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me.
– Joel Madden
I'm thrilled to continue my partnership with U by Kotex for Generation Know while helping to empower girls. I've always been a motivational resource for my younger sisters and hope I can positively impact and inspire other young girls too.
– Khloe Kardashian
I'm terrible as I never take my make-up off at night, which I know is really dreadful. Whenever I'm out partying I just can't be bothered and now I am on 'Loose Women' that tends to be all the time. I hope next year holds even more parties for me.
– Carol Vorderman
I'm really happy here. I think anyone who knows me well, and the fans too I hope, they know that I love the area, and the bond that I've had with the fans has been fantastic.
– Frank Lampard
I'm really fun. I'm ridiculously fun. I hope I'm infectiously fun.
– Kesha
I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now.
– Regis Philbin
I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road.
– Neil LaBute
I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like construction, and then, yes, you hope you're talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer's work you've done and whatever else sprinkles down on you, and it's all caught on film or onstage.
– Ellen Barkin
I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don't know, because it's not in your hands, you don't make the decision.
– Beth Ditto
I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God.
– Kelly Clarkson
I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.
– Abbie Cornish
I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back.
– Steve Jobs
I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.
– Maynard James Keenan
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.
– Sonia Sotomayor
I would hope everyone would be a feminist.
– Mia Wasikowska
I would describe myself as emotional and highly strung. If something upsets me, it really upsets me. If something makes me angry, I get really angry. But it's all very upfront. I can't hide it. I'm also loyal and I hope I'm fun.
– Nicole Kidman
I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for.
– April Winchell
I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.
– Louis C. K.
I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was, what I wanted to say. I think country music is the best music in the world and I'm glad to be doing a country album. I hope people will love it as much as I loved making it.
– Lucy Hale
I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.
– Denis Leary
I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere.
– Russell Simmons
I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.
– Danielle Steel
I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.
– P. J. Harvey
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.
– The Dalai Lama
I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.
– Pope Benedict XVI
I told the President, I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about negotiations is counter-productive, because when you give the Palestinians hope that the United States will do its negotiating for them, they are not going to sit down and talk.
– Charles Schumer
I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.
– Shia LaBeouf
I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.
– Don Shula
I think they'd rather us follow our hearts and I hope that's what some people will understand.
– Fred Durst
I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.
– Bill Keller
I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
– Larry Wall
I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'
– Demetri Martin
I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.
– Studs Terkel
I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.
– Billie Jean King
I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.
– Arthur Miller
I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I think films have to reach people and really grab them. That's what I hope to do when I make a film - to get under your skin and really make you think about something, and have a transporting time that takes you somewhere.
– Mira Nair
I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.
– Aung San Suu Kyi
I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.
– Oliver North
I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.
– Dave Eggers
I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness.
– Shania Twain
I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
– A. N. Wilson
I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do.
– Faye Dunaway
I still believe in a place called Hope.
– William J. Clinton
I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.
– Alanis Morissette
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
– T. S. Eliot
I remember thinking, That's what I need - and that hope was in Jesus Christ.
– Willie Aames
I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.
– Paul Thomas Anderson
I really feel confident about my dancing now, so I hope there could be a place for me in the West End or on Broadway - maybe a musical, maybe my own show.
– Katherine Jenkins
I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.
– Lionel Messi
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.
– Francois Rabelais
I never make a movie for awards consideration. I will use the hope of getting an Academy Award a) to honor the people who work so hard and also b) it's the greatest Good Housekeeping seal in the world. It's the greatest brand. It's as good as Louis Vuitton and Dior in the world of moviemaking. It's the Super Bowl.
– Harvey Weinstein
I love the Beatles. I haven't named any kids after them but I still really love them. They were the first group that I was ever properly aware of. In my early teens I would sometimes stay in and listen to the radio all day in the hope that I would catch a song by them that I'd never heard before and be able to tape it on my radio-cassette player.
– Jarvis Cocker
I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.
– Victoria Justice
I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.
– Zinedine Zidane
I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.
– Alicia Keys
I love being able to sing for my job. I am blessed beyond words and I hope my fans can feel that while I'm on stage!
– Jordin Sparks
I know where I'm going and I have told the French. I am sure if hope is there, we will be able to put France back on its feet... to live better in five years than we do today.
– Francois Hollande
I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.
– Danica McKellar
I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.
– Danny Boyle
I just hope that the democratic will of the Zimbabwean people prevails. If it does we must move quickly to help restore stability and prosperity.
– Lucy Powell
I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.
– Maynard James Keenan