Quotes About Hope

How can we salute - encourage the American spirit? That means many different things to many different people.

As a kid, I wanted to be an actress, but ambition and reality are two different things.

I feel like every night, when you see a really good production of 'Romeo and Juliet' or something, you should hope that it ends differently. That's why we watch our favorite movies again and again.

I understand that some people might think differently, but my duty is to take confidence from playing well. And I'm convinced that with my attitude and ability, everything will go back to being the way it was before. That's what we all want. The Madrid fans and me.

Mum built a life for me in a difficult place at a difficult time.

God is going to see you through the difficult times.

Certain things have happened in my life where it has been crazy touch-and-go situations, but it has let me know that, even if there are going to be difficult times, there's always a bright side to everything.

There are a lot of difficulties with people trying to conceive.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

People tell me their own stories about how they have come through great difficulty.

I'm very confident that God has a way of bringing good from difficulty.

Family is the future, security is the future, work is the future, investment is the future, dignity is the future.

I realize that I cannot live without a spiritual dimension in my life.

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.

If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.

I see dog stories as an antidote to the dire news that nothing is ever going to get better.

We should be proud that we are bringing hope around the world in times of dire need.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

Without imagination and without love, life can be pretty bleak. I think having both will get you through the most dire of situations.

Would I like to direct? Maybe one day.

Everyone wants to be loved; everyone wants to know where they're going in life; everyone wants to have a sense of direction and feel the next day is going to be better than today. We just all deal with it in a different way.

I care deeply about the direction of our country.

I think we're going in the right direction.

When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen.