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Hope Quotes


"Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate."


"Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last."


"Hope is the last thing that dies in man."


"But I'm afraid that it would be all be a disappointment, so I prefer just to dream about it."


"Bloom with hope! Breathe in with hope in your soul. Thrive on with endurance in your heart. Move on with a productive mind. Listen carefully to the soft message of whispering hope."


"If we climb this high I swear we'll never die."


"Somewhere, somebody is looking for someone exactly like you."


"Our hope, and it's a sad hope, is that... well, I mean we need a tip. That's why we have such a big reward. We just hope that someone is holding her for her child and that we can, you know, get her back with a tip."


"The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on that, and I hope it will not be brought up against me when my clock strikes."



"As we are a doomed race, chained to a sinking ship, as the whole thing is a bad joke, let us, at any rate, do our part; mitigate the suffering of our fellow-prisoners; decorate the dungeon with flowers and air-cushions; be as decent as we possibly can."


"They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them."
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"One day, your beauty will manifest in someone's eye."


"Do you ever go out there when it's like this?' she said softly. 'When it's almost dark and there's no one else in the water?'I do. It's nice being alone out there.'It doesn't make you feel lonely?'The ocean is a great companion."


"No matter how ugly you are, there is always someone who sees his heaven in your eyes."


"Even when you're down, there is still hope. No matter how bad things get and no matter how small a hope there is, anything is better than nothing, No matter how bad things get, they can always, ALWAYS get worse. Take my word on that."


"The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear. If we are again to have progress, we must again be dominated by hope."


"When I look at the future it's so bright it burns my eyes."



"Remember that things can still be changed and that it is not too late."


"The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite."


"I want to have faith in strangers. I want to have faith in what we're all going to do next. But I'm worried. I see things shifting from United We Stand to God Bless America. I don't believe in God Bless America. I don't believe a higher power is standing beside us and guiding us. I don't believe we're being singled out. I believe much more in United We Stand. I have my doubts, but I want it to be true. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we really came together, if we really found a common humanity? The hitch is that you can't find a common humanity just because you have a common enemy. You have to find a common humanity because you believe that's true."


"When the world told the caterpillar its life was over, the butterfly objected, "My life has just begun."


"Oh what a valiant faculty is hope."


"Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine."



"Dear Meg," I said. "I can't be sure about Lityerses. But I think we must try. We only fail when we stop trying."


"History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty from the ashes of world chaos. A new world is being born. A new social order will emerge when Christ comes back. A fabulous future is on the way."


"And how did little Tim behave? asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his daughter to his heart's content. "As good as gold, said Bob, "and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see."


"I hope no one will think of... sending me to Pearl Harbor."
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