Quotes About Hope

If you ask me whether the election of Barack Obama is the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream, I say, 'No, it's just a down payment.'

Money you know you need or want to spend in the next few years is savings. Money you keep handy for an emergency belongs in savings. Money you hope to use soon for a down payment on a house belongs in savings. And all savings belong in a low-risk bank savings account or money market account.

When something is aspirational, you don't want someone to be thinking about payment every single time.

You can't sing about the same things as you did when you were 20; it would be ridiculous to sing about, I don't know, being in the quad. You can't really write about mortgage payments or stuff like that... but you can talk about 'let's make the world a better place.'

Patience pays off.

It kind of pays off to try your best at every audition; you never know what can happen. You can get a hundred nos, but if you just get one yes, it can change your life.

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

I hope peace is a part of everyday life.

I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

There's no shame in longing for peace.

I have no doubts, by the way, that Ariel Sharon really wants to move the peace process forward.

When people don't have a hopeful vision before them or the possible resolution of their difficulties by peaceful means, then they can be attracted to violence and to separatism.

Songs like 'Peaceful World' and songs that are responsible with their lyrics and talk about love and harmony can take the forefront and do something for real.

We need a peaceful, modern Cambodia. We need to achieve that. It's not easy.

Know that you are always safe. And also know that it's possible to move from the old to the new, easily and peacefully.

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty.

I hope no one will think of... sending me to Pearl Harbor.

When I first read Helen Weinzweig's 'Basic Black with Pearls' several years ago, I emerged in the sort of daze that happens when a book seems to ferret out your most secret thoughts and hopes. Since then, I've described the book to others as an 'interior feminist espionage novel.'

Love, as life, will fortunately remain an eternal mystery which no science will be able to penetrate and which reason cannot rule. Our only hope for the future is that man, endowed with a more delicate sense, will listen to the secrets of his own life.

With whatever talent and resources I have, I'm trying to bring light to penetrate the darkness many people feel.

I want to see reunified Korean peninsula, and I believe that the majority of Koreans in both countries want to see Korea become whole again.

When I'm really depressed because I have no money I buy a bottle of champagne with my last pennies - it's the best way to cheer yourself up.

I have a collection of lucky pennies, and I like to carry some of them with me. So far, they seem to be working!

Some people play the lottery all their life and never win a penny. Others play once and hit the jackpot and that's how it felt with 'Mary's Boy Child.'