I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not.
~By Henry Alford ~
I think maybe ten years from now, I'm hopefully going to be, in like, Tahiti or something. Kicking back like in my huge mansion, if everything goes right, it's all up to me.
~By Corey Haim ~
I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing.
~By Georg Solti ~
So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.
~By Robert Sheckley ~
Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
~By Salvatore Quasimodo ~
It is my hope that during my brief passage through this universe, that I may share with you the joy of hearing the music of the stars... knowing that the composer was from a distant place and the songs were written eons ago, which now fall gently on this place for all to hear.
~By Richard H. Baker ~
I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.
~By Laura Dern ~
I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it.
~By Annette Bening ~
But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.
~By Anne Tyler ~
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some "expert"... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.
~By Peter McWilliams ~
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
~By Mary Wortley ~
I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.
~By Jo Brand ~
So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.
~By Albert Szent Gyorgyi ~
It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.
~By Ricky Skaggs ~
There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it.
~By Barry Sonnenfeld ~
Our hope, and it's a sad hope, is that... well, I mean we need a tip. That's why we have such a big reward. We just hope that someone is holding her for her child and that we can, you know, get her back with a tip.
~By Scott Peterson ~
During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem would go away.
~By John Boehner ~
The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire.
~By Jack Schwartz ~
For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.
~By Kevin Spacey ~
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
The youth is the hope of our future.
~By Jose Rizal ~
Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.
~By Bobby Darin ~
Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
~By Arnold H. Glasow ~
Let's hope you feel better now.
~By Jack Kevorkian ~
To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~
Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.
~By Lu Hsun ~
And therefore, for the sake of my mater, without any regard for my own, I hope all those that have a due regard for our constitution and for the rights and prerogatives of the crown, without which our constitution can not be preserved, will be against this motion.
~By Robert Walpole ~
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice.
~By John Stott ~
Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.
~By Algernon Charles Swinburne ~
Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.
~By William Shenstone ~
Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.
~By Benjamin Graham ~
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Brooke Shields.
~By Tony Randall ~
If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
~By Jacques Yves Cousteau ~
In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
~By Douglas Adams ~
The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.
~By Rosamund Pike ~
I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.
~By Denis Leary ~
You can never learn it all and I hope to continue my growth as a person and a musician.
~By Lita Ford ~
I won't miss Grissom. It was a complete life for me that's reached its end, and it's reached it in the right way, I think. So I won't miss Grissom. And I hope that the audience won't miss him either.
~By William Petersen ~
I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am.
~By John Mayer ~
We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.
~By Rodney Dangerfield ~
I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.
~By Princess Diana ~
The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.
~By Joe Biden ~
When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.
~By Mackenzie Astin ~
What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal.
~By Theodor Herzl ~
Fundamentalism as it is called is not confined to the Muslim world. It is something that we have seen in different parts of the world. Let us hope that a dialogue between the followers of the three great monotheistic religions could help in putting an end to this.
~By King Hussein I ~
Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work.
~By Florenz Ziegfeld ~
When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
When I get into bed at night, I hope I don't get into it alone!
~By Calvin Klein ~
I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life.
~By Shania Twain ~
The second album of Black Mages is currently in the process of recording and the basic tracks have already been completed. Hopefully sometime in the future we will be able to have a concert.
~By Nobuo Uematsu ~
For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning.
~By John Thorn ~
You can be diagnosed and treated early. And there is hope for the future.
~By Teri Garr ~
I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing.
~By James L. Buckley ~
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
~By Erich Fromm ~
Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.
~By Gustav Heinemann ~
Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.
~By Ivo Andric ~
To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
Hope changes everything, doesn't it?
~By Diane Sawyer ~
The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.
~By Tom Lantos ~
In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes.
~By George Carman ~
I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
~By Francois Rabelais ~
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Death, only, renders hope futile.
~By Edgar Rice Burroghs ~
Today, one year after their divorce, Pamela and Tommy Lee announced they're getting back together. You know what that means? There's still hope for Ike and Tina Turner.
~By Jay Leno ~
I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.
~By Margaret Atwood ~
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.
~By James Larkin ~
Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.
~By Noel Coward ~
I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.
~By Mark Haddon ~
I really do hope that the people will like 14:59. The critics seem to like it. We got a lot of good reviews.
~By Mark McGrath ~
I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.
~By James Herriot ~
One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.
~By Jim Carrey ~
My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.
~By Roberta Flack ~
I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.
~By Edward Tufte ~
I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.
~By Gerald R. Ford ~
I am worth some study, if for no one else but myself. I hope that you feel likewise... even if only about yourself.
~By David J. Cook ~
Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.
~By Thales ~
I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don't take counsel of your fears.
~By Thomas S. Monson ~
I'm feeling pretty good right now, but I hope we can just win the whole thing and I can run off into the sunset and say good-bye.
~By David Wells ~
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!
~By Brent Spiner ~
When I get out... if I get out of here, I hope that maybe we can get back together and have more kids.
~By Susan Smith ~
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
~By Anne Frank ~
Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward.
~By John Amery ~
Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of people.
~By Jim Ramstad ~
We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.
~By Caleb Cushing ~
You don't necessarily live for the moment; you live for hope-what you're going to get, what you're going to say, what you're going to think.
~By Isaac Mizrahi ~
It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
With a fresh start, I hope it'll work out good. I know the whole Fox story and how he came over here and had a great year for them. I'm hoping that's what it'll be - fresh start, new faces, new team, new city. I'm looking forward to getting out there.
~By Billy Koch ~
It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good.
~By John Dykstra ~
Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.
~By Charles W. Pickering ~
No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool.
~By Thomas V. Smith ~
I wish to express my hope that the efforts of our nations, nationalities and peoples in the direction of the development of our democratic order will be successful.
~By Girma Woldegiorgis ~
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