Quotes About Hope

I feel that we don't have the luxury of asking whether or not the Palestinians and Israelis can achieve peace. I think we have to just ask the question of when and how.

So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

If you've ever questioned your faith, you're going to question it when you are burying your own children.

For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.

I might have some difficult questions, but I know God is still good and he has been merciful and gracious.

For me, law school was a time of joy and hope. Joy in learning my way around the law - learning how to orbit a problem and to ask myself hard questions and to be asked hard questions. Hope that I could be of some use, to be part of the greater good - to make the world a little bit better.

When I get finished with fighting, I hope they ask the same questions. It's not my purpose to answer them. Boxing is the art of self-defense. I knock 'em out the first chance I get.

I cried most days working on the first draft. The last scenes were the hardest. I had a feeling where I wanted to end - the exact note - but I couldn't see how to get there. Sarah Murphy, my editor, asked the right questions to help me. I think of 'The Bear' as a hopeful book.

It was something I never expected to - I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers.

I pray for miracles. I have always found prayer to bring quick results.

I mean, if you asked me what I'm going to be doing when I'm 85, I'd make a quick picture in my mind and, well, I'll be singing.

I just want to say real quick, whatever kind of problems you've been going through, maybe you're having a hard time at work, maybe you're having a hard time with your family, whatever it might be, you can overcome that. You just have to keep your hope up.

I honestly thought I was going to win a major championship quicker than what I did, but it clearly took a little bit longer than expected.

I guess I harboured hopes that things would happen more quickly, but I'm not disappointed.

There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise.

'Cunnamulla' is a beautifully bleak portrait of a lonely town in which people are leading lives of sort of quiet desperation.

My characters - no, make that most characters - are seeking the shelter of narrative resolution, a place of quiet and grace.

My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life.

I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

When you're in that position - when things are crumbling around you - the thing to remember always is that, 'If I quit, this is all it's ever going to be. It's never going to get better.'

I'm involved in quite a few ministries as a bridge builder, trying to match generous givers and donors to other ministries. Based on my past, I'm also involved in mainly the prison ministry. I go to jails and prisons and share my story, trying to give them some hope.

I play guitar quite a bit, because I'm always in search of something. I don't play to jam, but because I'm fishing. I'm looking for something, that I hope you can never find. If I do find it, I'm afraid I won't have a need to do this any more.

When I do look at myself, I see someone who is fundamentally optimistic. Quite a lot of what I do in my television work involves the less than pleasant aspects of human nature, yet I'm never pessimistic.

The actual thought of not really having a home was, for me, very depressing, and it was something that I was dealing with for quite some time.