Quotes About Hope

Just think of AIDS as . . . the guest that won't leave. The one we all hate. But you have to remember. Hey--it's still our party.

Wherever the killing season should next begin and people should become strangers to their neighbors and themselves, my hope is that there will still be those ordinary men who say a quiet no and open the rooms upstairs.

Quiet, ordinary people are often the only people with the real ability to defeat evil. They can give it the Rwandan no.

Waiting, he thought, was the most miserable condition a man could find himself in. His whole life, he had been waiting for one thing or another.

Kumar was a man who felt in the end he had lost everything, even his Englishness, and could then only meet every situation—even the most painful—in silence, in the hope that out of it he would dredge back up some self-respect.

Here, on the ground, nothing is likely, everything possible.

And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.

She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been

Most people on earth are poor. Most places are blighted and nothing will stop the blight getting worse. Travel gives you glimpses of the past and the future, your own and other people's.

Fiction gives us the second chance that life denies us.

What I had learned on the border from the mothers intending to cross was not that they wished to make a new life in the States, but that they hoped, as a solution, to make enough money to keep their family together in Mexico.

But hope and determination and a willingness to take risks are not enough to overcome the curse of bad government or the hostility of the everyday, the warding off of evil.

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us

The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on a hillside," Joyce writes in Ulysses. "For them the earth is not an exploitable ground but the living mother.

Why see death as a hangman when it is truer to see it as a harvester leveling the earth with its scythe? Oddly, we take hope from the seasons — the rebirth of spring after the death of winter — or from the rising and setting of the sun. But no spring, no dawn beyond death, has ever been proven. Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

I think shows how nebulous some migrants regard this desire for transformation.

cling to—they have little else to cling to.

If optimism is the highest form of courage -- as I am beginning to believe it is -- then these students are all heroes.

Captain Kidd said, It has been said by authorities that the law should apply the same to the king and to the peasant both, it should be written out and placed in the city square for all to see, it should be written simply and in the language of the common people, lest the people grow weary of their burdens. The young man tipped his head toward the Captain with an odd look on his face, It was a kind of longing, a kind of hope. Who said that? Hammurabi.

Everyone when they are young knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith.

When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.