Quotes About Hope

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

A lot of conversations happened during Obama's election that opened my eyes and made me really excited. He provided hope at a time when the country was grappling with its racial history, and we still need that hope.

I might not be here if it wasn't for the research and the technology that March of Dimes provided for my family and me.

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past.

I think we still have a chance if we continue with our work, if Iraq provides full cooperation, we should still be able to avoid a war.

Forgiveness provides hope, joy, and a bright future that nothing else can.

Logic itself affirms that a loving Heavenly Father would not abandon His children without providing a way for them to learn of Him.

Somewhere in Rwanda, a rural farmer is dreaming of providing an education for her children. Not just high school, but maybe even a university degree. Such a dream used to seem out of reach.

We are a country that has always been known for providing opportunities to people. We have lost a lot of that opportunity.

I love this province and I believe in a better future for Ontario.

Hope in the future is deeply rooted in our national psyche. It is part of the soul of our nation.

The average human being in America is going through some sort of hard times - physical, emotional, psychological. Everybody's carrying a bit of bone days in them.

You see, Leavers desperately need a psychological win. We need to feel our vote for change can actually change things.

What the Ellison Foundation and I are hoping to encourage is a more holistic approach to psychiatry, in which psychotherapy is put on as rigorous a level as psychopharmacology.

I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.

I was able to walk at 5. I had to be able to walk in order to be mainstreamed into public school. And my father worked day and night to teach me how to walk. And I think what's so amazing about this is the fact that he was told that I would never walk. And he decided that he was going to try.

What drives people to public service is a sense of possibility. If you haven't sensed that possibility you don't get started in the same way, you don't feel you can have an impact.

To be honest, before the American publication of 'The Three-Body Problem', I prepared myself for the possibility of uniformly negative reviews.

My first book, 'Nadirs,' was very important for me. I'll leave its literary worth for others to judge. But its publication in Berlin in 1984 gave me protection. As did the awards it won. The Romanian secret police could no longer treat me and my friends as though we were completely cut off from the rest of the world. And we no longer felt cut off.

Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later.

That and the fact that I knew that nobody was going to publish my work at Dark Horse or DC or anywhere.

Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.

I'd never been published when I was young.