939 private quotes tagged hope

“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

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“The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.” — Dolly Parton

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“For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.” — LeBron James

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“My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.” — Ovid

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“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.” — Pearl S. Buck

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“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.” — Jane Austen

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“If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'” — Eric Alterman

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“When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.” — W.C. Fields

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“I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.” — Alphonse Karr

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“Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.” — Jesse Jackson

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“I mean, why am I considered an 'it girl?' Because I'm in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here's the thing with 'it girl' status. It's great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last?” — Amanda Seyfried

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“If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.” — Eamon de Valera

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“The way you deal with a scare is the way you deal with a laugh. The timing has to be perfect. When you're dealing with fear or laughter - emotions that happen spontaneously - you hope it's working. But in the moment, you really have no idea.” — Patrick Wilson

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“My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.” — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

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“It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you're selling, and often pure, dumb luck.” — Jeffrey Kluger

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“Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.” — Algernon Charles Swinburne

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“I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear.” — Thomas Friedman

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“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.” — Robert Fulghum

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“My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that.” — Trey Parker

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“Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.” — King Abdullah II

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“I hope to be an actor and never retire.” — Dominic Monaghan

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“I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.” — Michael Jordan

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“Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.” — Anne Wilson Schaef

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“Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.” — Patrick Swayze

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“You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.” — Johnny Vegas

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