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Hope Quotes


"Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure."


"I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they'll have, in addition to all the print material, they'll have all these pictures to look at."


"Every violent storm will eventually give way to sunshine, every dark night will finally fade into dawn."


"Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates."


"There seems to be no hope. But pretending to be hopeful is the only grace we have . . ."



"Oh, Youth may listen patiently, While sad Experience tells her tale, But Doubt sits smiling in his eye, For ardent Hope will still prevail!He hears how feeble Pleasure dies, By guilt destroyed, and pain and woe;He turns to Hope - and she replies, 'Believe it not - it is not so!"



"If Ron Dellums running for mayor gives you hope, then let's get on with it."


"Your mission: May you continue to shine no matter the storms you have been through."


"They have a fine breeze and are now we hope, well on their way."


"A butterfly is a caterpillar who never gave up on his dream to fly."


"The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring."



"So, instead, I try to put in light and hope for the best."


"Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment."



"Maybe I was crazy to consider it, but I'd always hoped that if I were a good enough girl, if I did everything right, if I said the right things or said nothing at all-I thought my parents would change their minds. I thought they would finally listen when I tried to talk. I thought they would give me a chance. I thought they might finally love me. I always had that stupid hope."


"You don't necessarily live for the moment; you live for hope-what you're going to get, what you're going to say, what you're going to think."
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"If you have shed a thousand tears, expect a thousand blessings."


"I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence."


"It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation."


"I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question."


"Often what feels like the end of the world is really a challenging pathway to a far better place."


"I hope it goes beyond meeting with them to a willingness to listen and compromise on issues."


"And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about."


"At the end of the day, my hope is that when the new Medicare- Prescription Drug Law gets up and fully running a lot more seniors will pay a whole lot less than they do today for their much-needed medications."


"It's like in the great stories Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end it's only a passing thing this shadow, even darkness must pass. A new day will come, and when the sun shines it'll shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something even if you were too small to understand why. But I think Mr. Frodo, I do understand, I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something."


"An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in the aftermath of another vast calamity in 1914-18, disillusion is deep and moves on to self-doubt and self-disgust."


"I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving."



"We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.'"
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