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Hope Quotes



"I've lost a lot in my long life. Yes, I've seen pain and I've seen strife. But I'll never give up; I'll never let go. Because I'll always have my ray of hope."


"I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative."



"Life wore a man out, wore a man thin.Tomorrow would be a better day."


"By choosing positivity you become a contender for the human spirit giving hope to those in need."


"When reality hurts, make sure to soar above the dream-stained sky!"


"The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan."


"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers."


"On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously."
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"I still don't like doing interviews. I hardly do any... I hope this will be the last one for a long while."


"I could not agree more. The students of Delaware State often looked to the school as their chance, their hand up, their hope. And they gave their all."


"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."


"Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible."


"I haven't seen or spoken to Ray Collins in at least 10 years so I don't even know if he's alive. I hope so."


"I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses."


"Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest."



"The world is full of disappointment," I said."Yes," she said, "I heard him say that. And every creature is simply trying to get what it wants, and to make their way through a difficult world. Do you believe that?""No," I said. "There's more than that.""Like what?""Like good books," I said, "and good people. And good librarians, who are almost both at once."


"That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick."


"Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope."


"I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred."


"The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world."


"Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that."


"You are to me like white islands, in a world of vast darkness."


"Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?"


"If we can just take a few companies, and use those as models, as examples, to show the rest of corporate America how they can become more competitive, that's what I'd like to do and that's what I hope to do."


"In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day."


"A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm."


"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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