Quotes About Hope

Utopia means elsewhere.

What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

I don't see a utopia anywhere for me.

Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.

It's a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.

To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.

Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety attack. When you're in the throes of one, it's hard to feel anything other than utter misery and terror.

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us.

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.

And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.

I'm pro-union and utterly hope that Scotland stays within the United Kingdom.

A presidential candidate's great desire is to be seen as pragmatic, and they hope their maneuvering and shifting will be seen in pursuit of some higher purpose. It doesn't mean they are utterly insincere.

Family vacations are the kind of enterprises you embark upon with hope and optimism, and return with a lot of dirty laundry and suffering extreme exhaustion.

If only there was a vaccine to protect against breast cancer, we'd be lining up - wouldn't we?

In spite of the tireless efforts of our scientist, it is possible that we may never find a successful coronavirus vaccine.

The Republican approach to handling the coronavirus and the economy is apparently not to turn to our government, but to put our heads down, go on as usual, and hope for a vaccine.

The God of justice is with us, and our word, our work - our prayer for freedom will not, cannot be in vain.

I could've easily let the passing of my brother control how I live my life. But I was determined not to let him die in vain and to make a negative into a positive.

I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason.

I've always had horrible Valentine's Days.

Poverty was my mother's midwife. She had her children in poverty. But she also found a road to bring us a sense of purpose, and she taught us how to be valiant in the face of oppression.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.