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Hope Quotes


"I would describe myself as emotional and highly strung. If something upsets me, it really upsets me. If something makes me angry, I get really angry. But it's all very upfront. I can't hide it. I'm also loyal and I hope I'm fun."


"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."


"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."


"Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check."


"Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me."


"The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint."



"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."


"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."


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


"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."


"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."



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


"I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it."


"It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope."



"I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation."


"I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along."


"You kind of hope that the events themselves are interesting. I think that's what you have to hope for, that on a broad level it's an interesting story."


"I also hope that with the assistance and expertise of Dome Records, that I will be able to further pierce the UK and European market. I really like playing there and I want to do more! I've found that the audiences get quite involved and really listen to what's happening."


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



"When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read."


"I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."
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