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Hope Quotes
"Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route."
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"We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics...they will only grow louder and more dissonant ........... We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope.But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope."
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"By choosing positivity you become a contender for the human spirit giving hope to those in need."
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"Hope is a slighter, tougher thing even than trust, he thought, pacing his room as the soundless, vague lightning flashed overhead. In a good season one trusts life; in a bad season one only hopes, But they are of the same essence: they are the mind's indispensable relationship with other minds, with the world, and with time. Without trust, a man lives, but not a human life; without hope, he dies. When there is no relationship, where hands do not touch, emotion atrophies in void and intelligence goes sterile and obsessed. Between men the only link left is that of owner to slave, or murderer to victim."
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"The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope."
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"What you hope for, like Unforgiven did a lot to give you a chance to do it again sometime."
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"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."
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"Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible."
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"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."
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"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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"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."
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"Day by day, there exists the possibility for the dream to come true."
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"Hope just means another world might be possible, not promise, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope."
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"You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light."
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"We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope."
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"That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque."
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"The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united."
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"I dreamed of going to the top of Mount Elum like Alexander the Great to touch Jupiter and even beyond the valley. But, as I watched my brother running across the roof, flying their kites and skillfully flicking the strings back and forth to cut each other's down, I wondered hoe free a daughter could ever be."
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"Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal... To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable."
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"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."
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"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."
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"It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit."
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"Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have."
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"My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader."
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"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."
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"We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation."
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"This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance."
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"Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that."
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