I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties.
~By Patricia Highsmith ~
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
~By William S. Burroughs ~
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
~By George Eliot ~
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
~By Dana Plato ~
I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.
~By Brooke Shields ~
I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.
~By Richard Francis Burton ~
My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.
~By David McCullough ~
Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.
~By Jim Valvano ~
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
~By Tom Clancy ~
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 ~
Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.
~By Edward Teller ~
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 ~
In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
~By Don McLean ~
I'm a running coach and I am going to continue to run, but I would hope that we are better defensively.
~By Don Nelson ~
But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.
~By Charles Ives ~
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 ~
Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.
~By Jim Wallis ~
A leader is a dealer in hope.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
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 don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.
~By Geezer Butler ~
I mean, I would hope that I have a style or personality that is evident wherever I go.
~By Trevor Dunn ~
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 ~
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 ~
Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
~By Bill Cosby ~
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.
~By Arthur Miller ~
I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me yet.
~By Diana Rigg ~
The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope.
~By John Strachan ~
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 would describe myself as emotional and highly strung. If something upsets me, it really upsets me. If something makes me angry, I get really angry. But it's all very upfront. I can't hide it. I'm also loyal and I hope I'm fun.
~By Nicole Kidman ~
You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.
~By Patrice Leconte ~
I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
~By Barry Sonnenfeld ~
So people are ready. I feel hopeful in that sense.
~By Studs Terkel ~
Studying is something I really love doing, and I just hope to have enough money for tuition.
~By Alexandra Kosteniuk ~
One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.
~By George Allen, Sr. ~
Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.
~By Freddy Fender ~
As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased.
~By George Steinbrenner ~
Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.
~By Wilfred Owen ~
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
~By Epictetus ~
Hopefully it will be possible to get all our other albums in American shops one day so if people are interested they can hear it but I'm hoping that people are going to be interested in what we are going to do, not just what we've done.
~By Ville Valo ~
Next? Growing up to be Clint Eastwood, I hope.
~By Steven Bauer ~
It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.
~By Goran Persson ~
A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
~By Irvin S. Cobb ~
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.
~By Max Eastman ~
I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
~By Walter Jon Williams ~
Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.
~By Mark Helprin ~
Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good.
~By Samantha Smith ~
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
~By Bob Hope ~
Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of fear, but full of hope.
~By Andrew von Eschenbach ~
I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion.
~By Peter Maxwell Davies ~
Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.
~By Sarah Ban Breathnach ~
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.
~By Ivan Illich ~
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
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 can honestly say this industry hasn't made me neurotic about my looks, except maybe my weight. I hope my clothes kind of reflect that. They're meant to make you feel good.
~By Stella McCartney ~
I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future.
~By Maurice Ashley ~
In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.
~By Robyn Hitchcock ~
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 ~
If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.
~By Clay Aiken ~
Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
~By Stephen Jay Gould ~
If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity.
~By Burt Bacharach ~
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.
~By Thomas Reed ~
It's fun to be hopelessly in love. It's dangerous, but it's fun.
~By Keanu Reeves ~
You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
~By Camille Claudel ~
I live on hope and that I think do all Who come into this world.
~By Robert Bridges ~
Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.
~By Will Durst ~
Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.
~By Bettina Arndt ~
I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.
~By Mel Smith ~
My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.
~By Richard John Neuhaus ~
Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure.
~By Ernest Lawrence ~
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
~By Pliny the Elder ~
Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style.
~By Jurgen Habermas ~
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am.
~By Steve Yzerman ~
If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.
~By Lance Armstrong ~
There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was, 'Well, I hope so.'
~By John Sayles ~
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
~By William Sloane Coffin, Jr. ~
If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would have made me actually look and feel ridiculous. It's quite obvious most of the people who turned up for this audition were hopeless.
~By Simon Cowell ~
Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists.
~By Paul Kane ~
And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.
~By Katie Couric ~
We simply write the kind of music we enjoy most and hope that our audience will enjoy it too.
~By Benny Anderson ~
Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.
~By James Montgomery ~
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
~By Winston Churchill ~
I still don't like doing interviews. I hardly do any... I hope this will be the last one for a long while.
~By Beth Gibbons ~
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
Every year I try to keep in excellent shape and improve some part of my game. I play in the offseason overseas to keep my game tuned up and hopefully improve a little in some area.
~By Sue Wicks ~
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
~By Irvin S. Cobb ~
Since my induction into the Sports Hall of Fame, I have wanted to have my No. 3 Chevy on exhibit for sports fans to see. I hope others will enjoy the car as much as I have.
~By Junior Johnson ~
I think the other misconceptions when the film came out, he was very upset that it was so widely released and so widely seen. And neither one of us - well, I think I had hopes it would be, 'cause I really did think it was something special.
~By Terry Zwigoff ~
Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high and there's always hope, aim low and you might as well stop now.
~By Diana Wynne Jones ~
Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.
~By Mandy Moore ~
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
~By Jim Horning ~
I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.
~By Corey Haim ~
Ultimately, I think it's just going to get you that exposure, get you in that door, get you that recognition that will hopefully get you opportunities.
~By Shawn Ashmore ~
No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
~By George Chakiris ~
I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show.
~By Aaron Spelling ~
Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
~By Mason Cooley ~
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