Quotes About Hope

What I always say is, wars begin in man's time, but they end in God's time.

Never mind." He thinks, "tomorrow is another battle, tomorrow is another world.

He thinks, tomorrow is another battle, tomorrow is another world.

He understands honor but does not boast of his own. . . He has studied the world without despising it. He understands the world without rejecting it. He has no illusions but he has hopes. He does not sleepwalk through his life. His eyes are open, and his ears for sounds others miss.

those sectaries in Europe who are always expecting the end of the world, but who hope that, after the earth has been consumed by fire, they will be seated in glory: grilled a little, crisp at the edges and blackened in parts, but still, thanks be to God, alive for eternity, and seated at his right hand.

I daresay something will happen, between now and '91, to make your fortunes look up.

Do you think this plague will be over by the time I return? They say these visitations are all from God, but I can't pretend to know his purposes.

I am praying for everybody. I am praying for everything. That is what it is, to be a cardinal. Only when I say to the Lord, "Now, about Thomas Cromwell—" does God say to me, "Wolsey, what have I told you? Don't you know when to give up?

He feels he is in the torture chamber but he knows that one day he will find the door out, because it is he who has the key.

She had built a little house for love, and it was flattened by one remark. Now she lives in the wreckage

The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if only you can see it.

Make a wish," said Indigo. Rose made a wish and then asked, "Why?" "That's what I always do. Wish on the moving ones." "Does it matter how fast they move?" "I don't think so." "Can you wish on airplanes, too?" "Oh, yes.

In the camp we saw our own people kill each other over a crust of bread. In the old days I used to think that religion did not matter much, that people could be good without it. That was not true in the camps. If you had no hope or faith to keep you human, you sank to the lowest depths. I'll practice my religion more faithfully now.

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.

My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.

I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.

It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.

I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.

NOEL: You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind.

MOLLY: You don't like New Years Eve? Are you insane? It's literally the best holiday ever. You just party all night and it doesn't matter what stupid stuff you do because the year's over and you get a brand new start in the morning.

I didn't want to die, ever. I wanted to watch a million suns set, love a million women, walk down a million city streets and lonely roads. A thousand lifetimes wouldn't be enough for that. Sometimes, convinced I had come down with some fatal illness, I was afraid I wouldn't even have one.

But if they spoke of Bee, he believed he would not be able to bear it, and if they didn't, it might be equally terrible.

Nor did the word closure that a few of the mourners said they hoped to achieve. Edward believed that they thought of it as a door closing softly on their grief, but he was afraid it might shut out more than they'd bargained for, memories of love and pleasure as well as of loss.