Quotes About Hope

As long as we stay together, you don't have to worry about the darkness.

Sooner or later everything boils down to trust. You just have to make that leap of faith.

Better to live in the ruins of empire, I thought, and stand a hope of being remembered, than to be lost in those golden multitudes.

It is far, far better to close off a possibility, for ever, than to cling to some silly hope.

Believe me, this will help. When everything seems like it couldn't get any worse, you'll always be able to tell yourself: I did this one brilliant thing, this one brilliant thing that no one else has ever or will ever do. And that makes me special.

You've found a way to stay sane, Renfew--even if that means admitting a tiny piece of piano-playing madness into your world. But there's a cost to that sanity, and it isn't moi . the cost is you can't ever allow yourself an instant of hope, because hope is something that will always be crushed, crushed utterly, and in the crushing of hope you will be weakened forever, just as surely as if you'd mainlined some slow-acting poison." ~"Understanding Space & Time

We have worlds to save, Doctor Aziba." "That sounds ... compelling," the physician allowed.

While there were still children in the universe, and while children could still be enchanted by something as simple and wonderful as a flower, there was still a reason to keep looking, a reason to keep believing.

'Faith and Will' sprang from my personal experience with passing through a dark spiritual time.

For me, the only thing I had to look forward to was the ring because my personal life wasn't doing that great, so my fake life was what I was holding onto.

I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.

Daydreaming allows you to play out scenarios where you miraculously save the day. You play out scenarios in your head that are kind of crazy, and then you personally, heroically resolve them.

People often ask me if fantasy is about escapism, and I personally don't think it is.

We just fundamentally forgot that people want to vote for something positive. They want to be shown what the good life for them personally looks like.

I don't want to get corny, but my career really has been the personification of the American dream.

How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.

One can only hope that America, and other countries, will not need more natural persuasion before taking to heart the lessons of Hurricane Harvey.

Peru, Peru. My heart's lighthouse.

Some people might hate someone who is successful, but in Peru, they love it! It makes them feel they can be successful, too. That's a good state of mind for a country that wants to come out of poverty.

I just think there is so much irrational pessimism in the world.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

I have about an equal amount of optimism and pessimism.

Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.