"Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook."

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"Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook."

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"I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope."

Nelson Mandela, South African Statesman

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"Are there not times, Ridley, when you yourself wish only to hear the best in people " and not to be dragged downwards into the underworld we all regularly inhabit?"

Carla H. Krueger, American Author

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"I put my pen to the paper and began to write. I'd made so many wishes for so many couples quietly in my head as they drove away, but writing the words out made it seem more real, possible. For them, and maybe for me.FOR YOU, I WISH FOR SECOND CHANCES.I folded it shut, then put it on the wall before I could change my mind, right above Jilly's. As Michael Salem called out to her and she started his way, I crossed the backyard, moving toward the music. When I looked back at the wish wall from a distance, it was a sea of squares: I couldn't even find mine among them. So many things we ask for, hope for, prayers put out into a world so wide: there was no way they could all be answered. But you had to keep asking. If you didn't, nothing even had a chance of coming true."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

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"Hope always comes after evil has done its work. We cannot keep living on hope, though. ['Box of Pandora']"

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

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"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

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"I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director."

Mel Smith, British Actor

Hope, Being, Television, Theatre

"I knew that in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late again. I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

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"Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future."

Bob Riley, American Politician

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"Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped."

Lillian Hellman, American Dramatist

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"I saw the truth, I saw and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the ability to live on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of people."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law."

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"On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting."

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"The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy."

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"I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine."

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"If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales."

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"Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long."

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