Hope is a talent like any other.

Storm Jameson

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

Oscar Wilde

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Henry Ford

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Rita Mae Brown

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.

William Shakespeare

I hope this has taught you kids a lesson: kids never learn.

Matt Groening

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Epicurus

The key in shooting any good round is to give yourself some chances and, tomorrow, if my swinging is feeling any good, I'll have some chances. But, if it's not, then I'll have to give myself those 15 to 20 footers and hope I can make those.

Tiger Woods

Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

Thomas Hobbes

It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.

Patrick Henry

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Bertrand Russell

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

George W. Bush

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

Norman Cousins

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Norman Cousins

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Stephen Ambrose

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

Anne Lamott

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

I was thinking around the clouds, and I was hoping you wouldn't bring me down. And I was wandering if you would come with me. But then I realized that you're dirty.

Nate Ramer

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.

Barbara Kingsolver

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

Anwar Sadat

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.

Judith Viorst

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

Ovid

Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible, and then working for it.

Bernie Siegel

That is what Americans do. We face a challenge -- no matter how great -- because we know that on the other side there is always hope.

Senator John Kerry

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.

Anne Lamott

I'm sure now that grieving and healing are the same thing sometimes, and magic and death are the same thing sometimes, and trusting and failing are the same thing sometimes.

Jorja Fox

Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.

Dr. Robert Anthony

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.

Oliver Goldsmith

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.

Sir George Savile

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies.

Shawshank Redemption

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

Lyn Yutang

I've heard that it's possible to grow up - I've just never met anyone who's actually done it. Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves. We throw tantrums when things don't go our way, we whisper secrets with our best friends in the dark, we look for comfort where we can find it, and we hope - against all logic, against all experience. Like children, we never give up hope..

Meredith Grey

People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,--'Wait and hope'.

Alexandre Dumas

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

Georges Bernanos

Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.

Anna Lappe

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Marie Henri Beyle (stendhal)

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

Thales Of Miletus

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

Alfred Victor Vigny

Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies.

Stephen King

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Howard Mumford Jones

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

Mignon McLaughlin

The pure, the beautiful, the bright,That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer,The dreams of love and truth, The longings after something lost,The spirit's yearning cry, The strivings after better hopes —These things can never die.

Sarah Doudney

So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes.

Mika Waltari

No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone. As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Orison Swett Marden

We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks to come. We've been asked to pause for a reality check; we've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

Barack Obama

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

Thomas Brackett Reed

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

Antonio Porchia

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

Herman Melville

I may not seem quite right,But i'm not f**ked, not quite.

Elliott Smith

What one hopes for is always better than what one has.

Ethiopian Proverb

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Aristotle

Hope is a waking dream.

Aristotle

Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.

Oprah Winfrey

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

Aeschylus

If it were not for hope, the heart would break.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

English Proverb

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will live as one.

John Lennon

Depression occurs when one looks back with no pride, and looks forward with no hope.

Robert Frost

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

George Washington

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles F. Kettering

And the sea will grant each man new hope . . . his sleep brings dreams of home.

Christopher Columbus

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.

William Shakespeare

In the hour of adversity be not without hope For crystal rain falls from black clouds.

Persian Proverb

To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.

Mahatma Gandhi

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.

Charles M. Schulz

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Desiderius Erasmus

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Sir Francis Bacon

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.

Albert Camus

Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.

Thomas H. Huxley

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

Thomas A. Edison

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

William S. Burroughs

When my heart can beat no more I hope I die for a principle or a belief that I have lived for.

Tupac Shakur

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Helen Keller

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

Helen Keller

I hope we can be reliable and that we don't need so much luck to get points.

Colin Kolles

It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.

Jean Paul Richter

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

For us it is a settled issue. We hope it's a settled issue for everybody.

Alexander Farrell

The revolution of electronics hasn't taken away the good smell of books. It's really hopeful to see.

Robin Wright

All I can say is we are hopeful.

Marty Miller

We're glad we have the money this year. We certainly hope to get more money next year.

Stephanie Marquis

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

Nikos Kazantzakis

As it is, they hope it is going to be more about what the international community can do for them.

Rosemary Hollis

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Josh Billings

I'm hopeful we can get that far.

Shaughn Renahan

Hope springs eternal when you are a defense attorney in a case like this.

Stephen Ryan

I hope they don't win the election.

Richard Meier

We believe this [upgrade] must be revolutionary. We hope to make an architecture decision in the first half of this year.

Len Lauer

I hope he takes us all out to dinner or something. We've got to get something.

Chris Chambers

Continued strong economic growth and falling gas prices in the fourth quarter leaves me hopeful that delinquencies will continue to fall.

James Chessen

I don't think the local charities have the resources to buy 5,000 cases of cards and stuff them in envelopes and hope someone will give five dollars.

Dave Edwards

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Wendell Berry

We hope this is a break in this case.

Susan Rice

I feel awesome. We do what we can and hope it does make a difference.

Liz Thompson

It was a difficult conversation -- but we had it. We hope results will follow from this meeting. He listened to us.

Susanna Dudiyeva

I'm very happy with my Olympics and I hope it helps to develop short track in China.

Wang Meng

This is a test for me. I think it is. I hope it is.

Reshard Lee

I just hope everything turns out fine.

Andrew Spence

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

John Quincy Adams

We gave people hope who had nothing.

Kevin Baer

He said before he ascended he would come back for us, ... That gives us hope. We are able to look at a day of terror and that causes us to look at what life is all about ... we know that there's a future for us.

Peter Shaw

Let's hope what we've done this week helps us to get something positive in our next games.

Fernando Torres

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things and no good thing ever dies.

Tim Robbins

(I hope to) keep putting on a little show, that's what makes me me.

Darrion Caldwell

We were hopeful but surprised. We didn't want to be selfish, but it's been great.

David Frye

It would be our hope we will have a rule in place in six to eight months' time.

Ron Dehaven

Hope will never be silent.

Harvey Milk

Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.

Booth Tarkington

We hope to put the town back in a positive light.

Malcolm Smart

I hope the village gets engaged in it because there's a lot of serious things going on.

Tom Kehoe

We hope wind projects will be anchors to the rural economy.

Mike Bull

Meanwhile, we hope they (firms and associations) can give analyses and proposals for resolving problems.

Wang Shichun

It's tough to focus in these conditions. I just hope we don't have to wait all day.

Jennifer Capriati

I'm always going to hold out hope. I might feel better the next day, I don't know.

Stephon Marbury

We're just really hopeful and blessed by the response.

Gary Moss

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

William Mckinley

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

Samuel Johnson

[The call-up] wasn't anticipated. I was just hoping to get a chance, and now I hope to make the best of this.

Dustin Byfuglien

I hope that whatever is sent by the central government reaches its destination.

Vincent Tius

I'm pleased to get some local flavor. It's good to have kids close. I hope they have a great experience playing ball and getting a great education.

Rocky Rees

I'm sad to see him go. I hope and pray we get the level of cooperation from the next director as we did from Crosby. When he saw a problem, he fixed it.

Abe Bonowitz

I hope to have more control over that in the future.

Robert Rodriguez

I decided they better hope they never got to play against me. That's why this is like a dream come true to me. I haven't forgotten that day.

Jason Ferguson

Reducing hunger should become the driving force for progress and hope.

Jacques Diouf

We hope there is a pathway back to the market.

James Mullen

Homosexuality is not a genetic predisposition. If someone is happy living that way, you can't force them to come out of it. But we give hope to thousands like myself.

Alan Chambers

Our hope is there are several families that are celebrating that lives have been saved because of this tragedy.

Mark Nation

There is good news and bad news. We are trying to dig out a woman. We hope she is still alive.

Markus Rieder

We're really excited about this. I hope there's a good turnout.

Raymond Woosley

We hope the move can help promote the concept of animal welfare in China.

Jill Robinson

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Pliny the Elder

I hope you haven't forgotten that game, because I haven't.

Lee Etzler

I hope you sit in the cell and think about what you have done.

Javier Garcia

It's great for us to make 15 out of 15. Historically, we haven't done that. We hope that trend continues.

Brent Brede

It's an exhibition, but you are playing against the best in the league and you hope it gives you some momentum. I feel good because I didn't want to go out there and get lit up.

Jake Moreland

We held discussions again. We are quite hopeful that some settlement will come.

Veerappa Moily

Hope is the poor man's bread.

George Herbert

Depth is kind of an issue. I just hope we have no more injuries.

Josh Sibley

I thought the kid had a chance to help us. I feel bad. I really hope he can come around for us. We drafted him for that purpose.

Ron Meeks

That is a problem no one is sure is over, but we are hopeful.

Phil Palmer

We're hopeful he'll lay out a plan for how he'll put South Carolina back to work.

Joe Werner

I want to do well enough to get some recognition. I would hope to become an actor who is good enough to win Oscars.

Oded Fehr

We hope they succeed because they'll help us succeed.

Joseph Palaia

We hope this would be the start of our winning streak.

Jorge Gallent

I hope it does change.

Suzanne Lloyd

I'm hopeful today that we will have a superintendent.

Howard Lee

That's the (ultimate) dream. In this game, you always have to have hope. You always have to dream.

Robert Low

Kick back and sincerely enjoy this book. I hope some of these poems make you think.

Gregory Johnson

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

I just hope they can spell it right.

Shaun Micheel

We just hope we have enough to get in.

Johnny Garcia

I would say this even if it were not my business that was on the line. The proposal you have in front of you is very important for us, and I hope you will see your way fit to support it.

Bill Petrocelli

We hope the stands will be full of fans who are here cheering our team on.

Dennis Roberts

We have a good enough base right now that we're fine. Of course, that might change tomorrow (Friday) if we get more sun. I hope not.

Jack Mckaig

Beneath every fear lies the pearl of hope.

Gabriella Goddard

Jet Li used kung fu to break into foreign markets, Hollywood. I hope my music can do the same thing.

Jay Chou

We're still hopeful. We want to be in the running.

John Hammond

There are plenty of other cars we can use and we will definitely do that. We just hope we find this one.

Scott Jasek

I'd like to hope it sent a message.

Ben Prepchuk

It was a place where everyone went, and that's what we hope to do now.

Jim Cashmer

There's no doubt he can finish as top scorer, and I sincerely hope he does. I would be more than happy is Michael were to take that away from me.

Alan Shearer

We hope it shows ? yes these things are effective. We want concrete evidence.

Debbie Adair

They sent a deputy out and she was very concerned. I hope she can find out who did this.

Glenn Ashby

I hope tonight meant a lot to him, to show him that we love him.

Mike Holt

We're back at the table, we're happy to be back at the table, and hope to reach a mutually beneficial conclusion.

Jim Cullinan

We hope he'll be ready for Thursday (at Hawaii). We just don't know yet.

Gus Hauser

It was a long time in the hot seat and I was hopeful that I might hold on.

Kristin Armstrong

I hope the team does real well. I love all those guys.

Jonathan Cluff

Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.

Titus Maccius Plautus

We hope this issue can be resolved as quickly as possible.

Ralph Stewart

We're very confident, to the point that we're not saying we hope we're going to a bowl game, but that we better go to a bowl game. Last year, we only half said it.

Lance Bennett

What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.

Samuel Johnson

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.

Andrew Von Eschenbach

We are deeply concerned about the disappearance of Ali - she is one of our own, a family member. We are working diligently with the law enforcement and the community and we hope Ali comes home soon.

Dwaine Stevens

Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.

Jef I. Richards

There is a time when justice delayed can become justice denied. I hope this does not become that kind of situation.

Paul Burns

I'm all battered and I feel pain but I hope I can continue. My goal is to win a stage soon.

Mario Cipollini

He was a good guy, he was a hard worker, he was a family man. It's a shame this happened. I hope they catch whoever they are.

Ben Gross

They have enough peer pressure to deal with as it is. I hope everything is taken care of and they don't have to go through this again.

Gina Miller

He is a great player but young players have their ups and downs and I hope he'll have a down against us.

Morten Olsen

He died so young whatever purpose he had in life I hope he fulfilled it.

Nancy Sams

One would hope this would stiffen the spine of other governors.

David Bruck

This is all about working as a team, cooperation and responsibility. I hope that all of you will decide to participate.

Jane Miller

I just hope if she goes, she goes in a real big way and takes a few people with her.

Jean Smart

I feel bad for them. I wish the best for them. I hope they can grieve and get it over with and try to live their life.

Randal Mccloy Jr