Hope Quotes

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor.

Joseph Addison

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

Tom Waits

It would be fun to do a reunion show. I hope we do it some day, but it better be soon. We're all getting on.

William Christopher

I told the President, I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about negotiations is counter-productive, because when you give the Palestinians hope that the United States will do its negotiating for them, they are not going to sit down and talk.

Charles Schumer

Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.

Billy Corgan

House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust.

John Boehner

For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.

James Buchan

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

Maurice Sendak

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

Magic Johnson

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.

Tony Kushner

Hope, like the gleaming taper

Oliver Goldsmith, The Captivity.

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

Jane Austen

I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

Maurice Sendak

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

William Hazlitt

We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.

Nate Ruess

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Bruce Barton

I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now.

Regis Philbin