Quotes About Hope

A dream is a feeling that sticks - and propels.

I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good.

I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.'

The Lord will never abandon you nor forsake you. He will stick with you until His perfect work is complete.

You never know what people are going to respond to or want in your work, and you just hope for the best when you design a collection, and try to make it as well-rounded as you can.

Ibsen is at heart an optimist. He could not close his life's work with a note of negation. When We Dead Awaken is a clear, ringing call to the future.

Seek the underlying harmonies of love and the overarching rainbow of hope, rather than the surface distinctions of creeds and of sects. Work for peace in religion.

Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

It is not our job to work miracles, but it is our task to try.

In our dreams lies our unfinished work for the world.

Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course.

This is the first time I've done something like this and I'm really hoping this will work.

If your dream dies, dream another one. If things don't work out the way you've planned, God has a better plan for you.

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

The editorial strategy of the 'World' is seemingly rested upon the theory that in a desperate cause, it is well to ask a little less than you hope to get. I think you should ask more.

Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to.

It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.

God did not want me to be a blind beggar on the street, alone and bitter. He gave me music, first to be my companion and then to be my salvation.

When my daughter was ill in Great Ormond Street, it was the darkest period of my life.

I lost an apartment. l became homeless for 11 months and squatted in a building on Sullivan Street in lower Manhattan.

Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.

The people that live in my hometown do not walk along the street with smiles on their faces. It is a desperate place, but I got out.

When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.