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Hope Quotes


"I could have stayed in L.A. and done sitcoms for awhile and will probably go back and do one I hope."


"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime."
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"There is so much sttuborn hope in a human heart."


"What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops."


"Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings."


"Beware how you take away hope from any human being."


"Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that."



"Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily."


"Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route."


"I hope to find the perfect band as well, I really do, and I'm working very hard to find that band."
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"Hope may inspire and inveigle us, but we cannot just live on hope. Certainly, love can be hope, but it is merely a contingency, since it might either mend our life or break our heart. ['Waiting for the smoke signals']"


"I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse."


"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."


"Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away."


"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."


"I hope that they are finding satisfaction. I'm in no way making a judgment. I know it doesn't make me happy."



"At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey."


"Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig."


"Contemporary Christian church would normally think that things are impossible."


"If I could catch a Star and hold it in my hand. I would illuminate those whose life is not so grand."



"Hope just means another world might be possible, not promise, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope."



"Hopefulness is risky, since it is after all a form of trust, trust in the unknown and the possible, even in discontinuity. To be hopeful is to take on a different persona, one that risks disappointment, betrayal..."


"What you hope for, like Unforgiven did a lot to give you a chance to do it again sometime."


"I am saying that in Wales here we have a very clear election commitment and I hope, and I will express this view, I hope that every individual member of the Labour Party, will understand that and will strive to achieve unity so that we can deliver the yes vote in the Autumn."


"I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them."
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