Quotes About Hope

A close friend of mine's daughter was diagnosed with Epilepsy and battled seizures her first 2 years so this cause hits close to home. She ended up having brain surgery and has been seizure-free since. It really is an incredible story. Anything I can do to help promote Epilepsy awareness, I am with it.

And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.

About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I ain't. I'm always hoping to surprise myself. But I do have a love of music and I do love to communicate it, and that's the best I can do, really. And I can raise a good family, too.

The really nice thing with 'Future Past' is that you actually have a superhero film - much to everyone's surprise, I will hope - that is about something. It's about racism, I hope. It's about resisting oppression. It's about fighting for freedom and the cost of fighting for freedom.

In 2002, my daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. And it was such a shock, a surprise to us.

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.

Readers regularly ask what can go wrong but almost never what could positively surprise.

Delusion is not good; better to be realistic and then surprise yourself if you're lucky.

You always hope you'll surprise somebody with the work. If you write something human and appealing, the perfect reader could be anyone.

I assumed that 'Gone Girl' would do incrementally better than 'Dark Places,' and that would be great. So the fact that it did more than that was kind of an incredibly pleasant surprise.

It is always better to wait for a good surprise instead of thinking about it.

Just get a bag and drop a dream in it, and you'll be surprised what happens.

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised.

They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.

I am not surprised that this is a longer bit of work than many of us would have hoped. It is not where any of us would have hoped it is. And I think we need to give credit to the Republicans in Congress who have done everything they can to defeat every jobs bill and slow down the economy.

I don't always expect good from people. I always expect the bad and I am pleasantly surprised when they are nice.

I wouldn't be surprised if this game went all the way to the finish.

Write yourself a permission slip to be surprised by someone's potential. Who knows? One day that person could be you.

I guess it's easier to think badly and then be pleasantly surprised.

I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

We've always had this experience that things take long, but I'm 100% convinced that our principles will in the end prevail. No one knew how the Cold War would end at the time, but it did end. This is within our living experience... I'm surprised at how fainthearted we sometimes are and how quickly we lose courage.