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Quotes About Hope

Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, in the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
There's no war that will end all wars.
~ Haruki Murakami
The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
~ Margaret Mead
Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.
~ Indira Gandhi
Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing-sicknes s, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even death--can take that love away.
~ Henri Nouwen
The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
We are evidently no friends of Satan. Like the kings of this world, he wars not against his own subjects. The very fact that he assaults us should fill our minds with hope.
~ J. C. Ryle
War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.
~ B. H. Liddell Hart
We all say no to war, we are all for justice and peace. But sometimes in order to maintain peace, armed action is necessary. But we hope it won't be the case.
~ Silvio Berlusconi
What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine, The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine.
~ Felicia Hemans
Who are you to end a war? I am here to tell you - who are you not to?
~ Jason Russell
That smile could end wars and cure cancer.
~ John Green
War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!
~ Pope Francis
The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.
~ Ernest Lawrence
A generation that hates war will not bring peace. A generation that loves peace will bring peace.
~ Seth
All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.
~ Ernie Pyle
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
~ Charles de Gaulle
War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.
~ Charles Mackay
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
~ James Madison
And at the last all shall be safe, and evil thrust out never to return. And so that the trust be kept, he said, I give it into your charge, and your sons', and your sons' sons, until the day come.
~ Susan Cooper
My daddy says that when you do somethin' to distract you from your worstest fears, it's like whistlin' past the graveyard. You know, making a racket to keep the scaredness and the ghosts away. He says that's how we get by sometimes. But it's not weak, like hidin'...it's strong. It means you're able to go on.
~ Susan Crandall
Good news!" she chirped. "The doctor says this time it's triplets!
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
She was kind of crying, too, because she liked happy endings. Then she realized it wasn't an ending at all. As she gazed around at all these people she loved, she knew that everybody here was just getting started.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips