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Quotes About Hope

Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.
~ Mason Cooley
Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists.
~ John Updike
Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me. No hope, no harm; just another false alarm.
~ Steven Morrissey
People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and they are right.
~ Marcy Kaptur
We're going to build the bridge to the 21st century, we have to make our children free - free of the vise grip of guns and gangs and drugs; free to build lives of hope.
~ William J. Clinton
Hope can make people do terrible things.
~ Tahereh Mafi
Vows begin when hope dies.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The Empress will follow where you go," she said. "So she will," Mat said. "As I'll follow where she goes, I suppose. I hope that doesn't lead us in too many circles.
~ Robert Jordan
Hope is not strategy. Hope fits with vision, but we must have a strategy and a process to make our vision become a reality.
~ John C. Maxwell
Brandon Wegher left camp to deal with some personal things. We hope he can return in the very near future
~ Kirk Ferentz
Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there's no hope, there's no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism, egoism, money worship, no way out. No way. No way out!
~ Terence McKenna
Hope lights up our darkness.
~ Celia Fremlin
I have two vintage typewriters. One just about works and the other hasn't a hope in hell, bless it. But they're both beautiful, and they'll stay with me just as long as there's a roof over my head.
~ Matt Roper
Hope regards problems, small or large, as opportunities.
~ James Keller
For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.
~ Freeman Dyson
We must have a pure, honest, and warm-hearted motivation, and on top of that, determination, optimism, hope, and the ability not to be discouraged. The whole of humanity depends on this motivation.
~ Dalai Lama
When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. ... For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.
~ Freeman Dyson
When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it. But myself, I say: "To fail is only to see the way to fail."
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.
~ Tanith Lee
The great hope of society is in individual character
~ William Ellery Channing
Lyrically I'm very ironic and silly, but I hope I'll touch your heart
~ Geri Halliwell
Action based on hope just felt better than the paralysis of certainty.
~ Christopher Moore
Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.
~ Rachel Cusk
Even the smallest thing can be enough to encourage someone who has decided to give up hope.
~ Elizabeth Ann Scarborough