What Is Hope Quotes

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.

And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.

Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.

Where there is a Key, there is yet hope.

...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.

I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley.

Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.

I hope I make people feel better. I hope I take people out of their situations a little bit and make them happier. That's really why I do what I do.

I try to be rational and suppress the hope that this is for real, but hope has a way of closing its eyes to reason and it just keeps growing.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.

Grass grows at last above all graves.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

I can always look up at the cosmos and marvel, no matter what happens. And when I look up at it, I feel as though my problems are small. I don't know why, but it always makes me feel better.

No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.

Life is more fragile and precious than I can comprehend, but believe me, I'm trying.

What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.

Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.

Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.

Twelve minutes. I can give you that.

Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged.

I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I've been looking for.

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.

Any area of my life for which I have no hope is under the influence of a lie.

Truth is for the gods; from our human point of view, it is an ideal, towards which we can approximate, but which we cannot hope to reach.

Anything that offers hope has the potential to heal.

Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies.

We want to give kids something to hope for. If one kid says, "Your cd helped get me through this year," that's all it takes.

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?

Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.

Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.

I'm going home now. I apologize for what I said. I hope you can forget it, but I'm going home right now.

Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don't think he's one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

I hope to be on the scene for a long time. I'd love to be old and gray and still be working in this [horror] genre.

There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.

I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.

I hope you don’t listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern.

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.

We have proved that the true strength of our nation comes not from the scale of our wealth but from the power of our ideals - opportunity, democracy, liberty and hope.

I'll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working.

By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of your improving

A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.

There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped toward new ends.