Quotes About Hope

Katherine Anne Porter was a reporter then, on the Rocky Mountain News. Her fiancé, a young officer, died. He caught the disease nursing her, and she, too, was expected to die. Her colleagues set her obituary in type. She lived. In "Pale Horse, Pale Rider

They had not given quinine or typhoid vaccine to influenza victims in the wild hope that because it worked against malaria or typhoid it might work against influenza.

They had not done the wild things that had no basis in their understanding of the workings of the body. They had not given quinine or typhoid vaccine to influenza victims in the wild hope that because it worked against malaria or typhoid it might work against influenza.

He hurt everywhere, so at least he must be alive. Another comforting thought because, despite everything, he wanted to be alive. It was the business of living he wanted nothing to do with.

So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good.

Education brightens a darkened world.

One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected.

It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained

There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.

After the miners' rally, when I saw how emotional everyone got when I sang, I thought I might get somewhere with singing

I feel lucky... I have tremendous support so I've never felt alone.

I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.

You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river.

Nature does not pile up 1000 hogs, then hope for the best.

We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.

My hope for America and the activists is that they never, ever go back to sleep, and they keep fighting for social justice, equality, and decency.

The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.

In the dark, equality for all of mankind couldn't seem brighter.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

I have a dream, one dream, keep dreaming. Dream of freedom, justice dreaming, dreaming of equality and hopefully no longer required to dream them

I rather have you win, because in God even those who are in second place are first.

Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people's participation and E for equality.