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Hope Quotes


"Celaena peered in the mirror-and stopped dead.The somewhat shorter hair was the least of the changes.She was now flushed with color, her eyes bright and clear, and though she'd regained the weight she'd lost during that winter, her face was leaner. A woman-a woman was smiling back at her, beautiful for every scar and imperfection and mark of survival, beautiful for the fact that the smile was real, and she felt it kindle the long-slumbering joy in her heart."



"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']"


"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow."


"That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque."


"And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else."


"I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame."


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


"We were talking about really getting Europe on its feet. It was our hope that there would be a breakdown of trade barriers in Europe first, and then eventually a breakdown internationally, which would help increase trade with Europe."


"Without trust in the possibilities for your life, where would you be? Where would any of us be? Our hopes for the future give us momentum."



"Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high and there's always hope, aim low and you might as well stop now."


"The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort."


"Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images."


"By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe."


"We need hope, or else we cannot endure."



"America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor."


"I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting."
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"Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route."


"Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough."


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


"Every day is a new day and every sunrise brings hope to the hopeless."


"All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?"


"You know, I can't remember the last movie I walked out of. If I pay, I'll see it through. I can't be halfway through a movie and think that I know everything that's going to happen, because I hope that I'm wrong."


"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."


"I hope I'm not a tourist attraction - I'm sure that they come here really because St. Andrews is just amazing, a beautiful place."
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"Brown v. Board is the foundation by which all Americans can look for hope - hope for their children, hope for their families, and hope for a better future."


"To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow."


"Is there something to be said for the writings of the Marquis? Is there something to be said for pornography? And is there something to be said against both? I hope our film is balanced and rich enough to encourage debate and discussion."


"I hope to soon be in contact with the man who is searching for Noah's ark."


"I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in."
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