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Quotes About Hopes

This is the mythosphere. It's made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs, legends, myths and hopes, that are generated here on Earth. As you can see, it's constantly growing and moving as people invent new tales to tell or find new things to believe. The older strands move out to become these spirals, where things tend to become quite crude and dangerous. They've hardened off, you see.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
~ Jacques Barzun
If I look at my dreams, desires, and hopes for the future as coming from a place of scarcity and the world's limited supply, it will constantly feed the notion that someone else's success is a threat to mine.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Here under St. Michael's Tower sat these three figures, the lean shabby-genteel John, the hulking weather-bleached Sam, the black-coated Mr. Evans—all atheists towards the life-giving Sun-God, and all expanding now, in their thoughts, their feelings, their secretest hopes, because of the victory of vapour over light and of dampness over heat!
~ John Cowper Powys
Story is how we figure things out, bring order and meaning to the events around us. The story we hold at any given time shapes our perceptions, hopes, and expectations; it gives us a place to stand.
~ John Eldredge
A hundred years earlier, in Hopt v. Utah, the Supreme Court ruled that a confession is not admissible if it is obtained by operating on the hopes or fears of the accused, and in doing so deprives him of the freedom of will or self-control necessary to make a voluntary statement. In 1897, the Court, in Bram v. United States, said that a statement must be free and voluntary, not extracted by any sorts of threats or violence or promises, however slight. A
~ John Grisham
Hopt v. Utah, the Supreme Court ruled that a confession is not admissible if it is obtained by operating on the hopes or fears of the accused, and in doing so deprives him of the freedom of will or self-control necessary to make a voluntary statement.
~ John Grisham
Ah! dearest love, sweet home of all my fears, and hopes, and joys, and panting miseries, Tonight if I may guess, thy beauty wears a smile of such delight, As brilliant and as bright As when with ravished, aching, nassal eyes, Lost in a soft amaze I gaze, I gaze
~ John Keats
Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.
~ Ted Turner
Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes a nation out of a mere aggregation of individuals.
~ Walter Lippmann
Hopes, dreams, faith and a sense of mission enable us to open up our lives.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
I chased love, I found friendship, I chased desires, I found hopes, I chased reality, I found dreams, I chased a monkey and I found you.
~ Unknown
Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.
~ Marcel Proust
And each time the cowardice that deters us from every difficult task, every important enterprise, has urged me to leave the thing alone, to drink my tea and to think merely of the worries of today and my hopes for tomorrow, which can be brooded over painlessly.
~ Marcel Proust
Thanks to the gods! My misfortune exceeds my hopes.41
~ Marcel Proust
For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of doctors, even when we call in the best of them the chances are that we may be staking our hopes on some medical theory that will be proved false in a few years. So that to believe in medicine would be utter madness, were it not still a greater madness not to believe in it, for from this accumulation of errors a few valid theories have emerged in the long run.
~ Marcel Proust
I don't know anybody who doesn't have a fantasy. Everybody must have a fantasy.
~ Andy Warhol
All reality is a blender where hopes and dreams are mixed with fear and despair.
~ Holly Goldberg Sloan
I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade
~ W. H. Auden
Expectations and hopes are totally different. Expecting something to happen is like betting on it, either you win a great deal or you lose the same way, but there is no limit for your hopes, you can keep your hopes as long as you care...
~ Unknown
Your life is made up of little moments, little efforts, little changes, big smiles, and all your hopes and dreams. Don't think any problem in your life is any different. Don't accept defeat. You were built to triumph through.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
Let's turn our mistakes into lessons and our fears into hopes. We should have faith in ourselves and be strong.
~ Unknown
Lets turn our mistakes into lessons and our fears into hopes. We should have a faith in ourselves and be strong.
~ Unknown
Neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength – we are able in the end to dominate the first and to achieve the second.
~ Marcel Proust