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Quotes About Hope

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.
~ George A. Smith
It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
One of the great dangers in political engagement is misplaced hope.
~ Shane Claiborne
We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.
~ William Hague
If you want to demoralize somebody's spirit, you take away their hope.
~ Erica Durance
In Los Angeles, people dress with the deep and earnest hope that people will do nothing but stare at them.
~ Ellie Kemper
A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box.
~ Edsger Dijkstra
You have to find a way to not become bitter and live within the parameters of the situation and laugh your way through it…and you hope for a better day for the next generation.
~ Yvette Nicole Brown
Be strong to hope, O Heart! Though day is bright, The stars can only shine In the dark night. Be strong, O Heart of mine, Look towards the light!
~ Adelaide Anne Procter
I don't want to lose hope.
~ Maurice Sendak
I think since the systematic emergence of terrorism and the assassination attempts, everything has tightened. My hope is that it loosens back up once I leave.
~ Barack Obama
At the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled.
~ Brenda Blethyn
I hope to direct a few more films before I leave the planet, so I hope I can find the material.
~ Ed Harris
In the 1970s, I think that there was probably a higher degree of respect for science, of hope about the future, and the future-oriented vision.
~ Ann Druyan
Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through song.
~ Russell Sherman
"I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane." "It never is, sir." "Lane, you're a perfect pessimist." "I do my best to give satisfaction, sir."
~ Oscar Wilde
The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense.
~ Howard Zinn
Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.
~ Arsene Houssaye
Blessed be the slot players for theirs is the hope of a better day dawning.
~ Frank Scoblete
I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky
~ Leo Tolstoy
I watch some kids ask the cafeteria ladies to sign their books. What do they write: "Hope your chicken patties never bleed?" Or, maybe, "May your Jell-O always wiggle?
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Let's hope you feel better now.
~ Jack Kevorkian
How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson