When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers.
~By David Amram ~
I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered.
~By Martina Navratilova ~
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
~By Evan Esar ~
I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.
~By John Hall ~
Mike gets to play four roles this time, if we ever did it again, he will play my role as well. He is a comic genius, everyone wants to be in this movie, let's hope that everyone will wish to see it as well.
~By Michael York ~
There are a lot more shots coming at the net and guys are just shooting it at the net because they have more time and pucks are going in off legs and feet and shoulders and heads, so you might have to play out a little further on the shot and hope it hits you.
~By Ed Belfour ~
The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.
~By Simone Weil ~
The question now is does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don't think he'll raise it out of the New York people, I don't think he's going to raise it out the Hollywood people, so where's the money going to come from for Barack Obama?
~By Juan Williams ~
The youth is the hope of our future.
~By Jose Rizal ~
I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.
~By John Hurt ~
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
Hopefully, if not it's not working right. I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas.
~By Jim Jarmusch ~
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
~By William Cowper ~
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.
~By Theodore Bikel ~
I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue.
~By Lotte Lehmann ~
The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb; But God's time is our harvest time, And that is sure to come.
~By Lewis J. Bates ~
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
~By Marquis De Vauvenargues ~
Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
~By H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~
I do hope to bring Jane Whitefield back before too long.
~By Thomas Perry ~
You kind of hope that the events themselves are interesting. I think that's what you have to hope for, that on a broad level it's an interesting story.
~By Chester Brown ~
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
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 ~
Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
~By Louis L'Amour ~
Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
~By Bob Riley ~
I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.
~By Zinedine Zidane ~
What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.
~By Hermann Broch ~
Not too many people are - were as good as Bob Hope. George Burns was great at thinking, you know, on the spot. Steve Allen was marvelous, and so was George Burns. But Bob may be the king of them all, you know.
~By Rich Little ~
I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something.
~By Dominic Chianese ~
We knew what we were up against, but we were going to go down fighting. Hopefully people back home remember that we got this far. We've got nothing to be ashamed about.
~By John Atkinson ~
I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
~By Larry Wall ~
We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.
~By James Laughlin ~
A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.
~By James Payn ~
The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist.
~By Danny Glover ~
Mr. Speaker, the scientific evidence is overwhelming that embryonic stem cells have great potential to regenerate specific types of human tissues, offering hope for millions of Americans suffering from debilitating diseases.
~By Jim Ramstad ~
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead.
~By Will Ferrell ~
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
~By Emmet Fox ~
I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed.
~By Bob Uecker ~
I hope the cooks who are working for me now are getting that kind of experience so they can use what they're learning now as a foundation for a great career.
~By Thomas Keller ~
My sense about Greta is that people ought to wait and see and see if she doesn't indeed turn out to be as balanced as we hope and expect she will. But there you are.
~By Brit Hume ~
We daily share emotions, our personal and shared needs and hope.
~By Frank Jordan ~
I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
~By Peter Benchley ~
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Right now I am doing my residency in orthopedic research.
~By Debi Thomas ~
I'm no way one of those comedians who want to do drama. I really do love comedies. I hope to go back to it.
~By Molly Shannon ~
For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away.
~By Richard J. Codey ~
Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside you say, Why are they still married?
~By Eric Braeden ~
I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.
~By Nora Roberts ~
Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.
~By Christina Rossetti ~
Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.
~By David E. Kelley ~
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 ~
The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.
~By Donna Leon ~
Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.
~By Garth Ennis ~
To have someone to relate to and hopefully enjoy the music and get a positive message out of it, to make the best music that we possibly could, those were the goals.
~By Janet Jackson ~
There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.
~By Kiefer Sutherland ~
And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.
~By Phil Ochs ~
I hope it will come as no surprise that I have something to say.
~By Teresa Heinz ~
How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
~By Letitia Landon ~
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
~By Steve Wozniak ~
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
~By Henry Ford ~
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 ~
We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.
~By Michael Novak ~
Unfortunately, the real focus in this country has not been on the rest of the world. It's been on our own issues and our own problems. Fair enough. But it means that our simple hopes that everything will just work out abroad aren't really coming to pass.
~By Jeffrey Sachs ~
Hopefully, America will really get a sense of how justice can be served in this country. And hopefully, they'll forget the Simpson trial.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.
~By Stanley Tucci ~
Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.
~By Helen Dunmore ~
You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.
~By Matthew Modine ~
People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.
~By Tracy Chapman ~
What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be.
~By Annette O'Toole ~
I'm going home now. I apologize for what I said. I hope you can forget it, but I'm going home right now.
~By Benjamin Day ~
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
~By Jane Addams ~
I have agreed to lend my voice to Nature's Guard, an animated series which hopefully will go into production in the near future. The characters are all animals. My voice will be for a character named Longtail.
~By Jeremy Bulloch ~
I am not well educated or bright enough to be politically clued in, but I hope in the film that I'm going to shock a few people, win a lot of people over.
~By John Lone ~
If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.
~By Robert Wyatt ~
All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.
~By Dave Grohl ~
Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words.
~By Kenny G ~
Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.
~By Denis Kearney ~
So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.
~By Dean Koontz ~
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.
~By Taryn Manning ~
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
~By Ogden Nash ~
I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.
~By Tom Hayden ~
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
~By Bruce Barton ~
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
~By Ovid ~
Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.
~By B. R. Hayden ~
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 ~
I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've told a lot of stories about young people, and I always feel there's hope.
~By Joel Schumacher ~
I guess I harboured hopes that things would happen more quickly, but I'm not disappointed.
~By Jerry Greenfield ~
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 ~
But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices.
~By King Albert II ~
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him.
~By Casper Van Dien ~
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
~By Jonas Salk ~
I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world.
~By Tadao Ando ~
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
If there's one thing I hope people are certain of it's this: I'm looking out for YOU - the taxpayer.
~By Laura Miller ~
I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my heart before him for what I am going to do.
~By Alex Campbell ~
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