Quotes About Hope

I have been through two wars in my 24 years, and I know what it's like to be without anything, to see the bombs flying above your head.

'Star Wars' is on my bucket list. Even if it's just a small walk on, I don't care.

As a survivor of the 20th-century Race Wars, my back remains unbent, and I move forward for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all who were created equal in God's eyes.

Inside 'Star Wars' are values that mean something to people. It's aspirational. It's full of hope.

I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.

In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our blood, ran generously to wash away injustice. To live, we die. Our dead once again walked the way of truth. Our hope was fertilized with mud and blood.

You better have an anchor in life. It doesn't matter if you're a Division I head football coach or Joe Schmo from Okemoh. Bad things happen. If you're not anchored, you're going to be washed away.

The Savior isn't our last chance; He is our only chance. Our only chance to overcome self-doubt and catch a vision of who we may become. Our only chance to repent and have our sins washed clean.

Kennedy was like a rock star. Carter was the earnest outsider at the height of Washington cynicism. Clinton was a bad boy who proposed his 'third way' of Democratic politics, and Obama brought hope and change to a country that so desperately needed it.

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

I was down in Washington when 9/11 happened. We were in the middle of putting together the next summer season, and all I could think of was something somehow must make sense to us. Our Town kept coming into my mind.

I grew up in Chillum Heights in the Washington, D.C. area., and it was never a garden spot. When guys go, 'Hey, when I grew up, my neighborhood was tough, and it was this and that'... the reality is that it was just a terribly sad place. And thank God, I was able to escape it.

One foot in front of the other was all she could manage.

Camba had bent her long neck down to Ingar's level and was muttering in his ear. "Do you feel the breeze on your face?" I heard her say. "That's yours, and worth feeling. Look at those orange clouds. All the trials of a day may be endured if you know there's such a sky at the end of it. Some days I told my heart to wait, just wait, because the sunset would teach me again that my pain was nothing compared with the eternal, circling sky.

The road was possibility, the kind she'd thought her life would never hold again, and Tess herself was motion. Motion had no past, only future. Any direction you walked was forward, and that was as must be.

All your failures and hopes, your suffering and striving, are inconsequential, compared with this. They are nothing. You are nothing. It was a relief to be nothing; it felt deep and beautiful and true.

I think I can show them the path out. I understand now that it's not a question of faith or hope; it exists, and we can find it. It's going to take some time, though.

She still held sorrows, but she was not made of them. Her life was not a tragedy.

No matter how much you wanted to do right in this world, the world would find a way to crush you.

Don't be afraid. We're walking away from death, not toward it. Death is going back.

The world is surprisingly hard to destroy," said Pathka gently. "Whereas saving it can be done a bit at a time. Anyway, don't be afraid. We're walking away from death, not toward it.

It must seem like the world is ending, but wait and see what God will do. He must have something wonderful in mind.

If there was a God who cared, could He make her brave? She liked the idea of it all.