939 private quotes tagged hope

“See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.” — Charles Barkley

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“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.” — Nicole Kidman

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“Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.” — Epictetus

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“We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.” — Epictetus

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“You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.” — Sharron Angle

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“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

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“Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.” — Henri Frederic Amiel

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“How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.” — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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“My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love.” — Alveda King

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“If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.” — Yves Saint Laurent

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“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

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“Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.” — Vaclav Havel

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“Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.” — Jonas Salk

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“You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.” — Stephen King

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“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“Where I am today... I still have my ups and downs, but I take it one day at a time and I just hope that I can be the best that I can possibly be, not only for myself, but also young people that are out there today that need someone to look up to.” — Demi Lovato

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“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.” — E. M. Forster

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“Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.” — Stephen King

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“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.” — James A. Baldwin

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“Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.” — Desmond Tutu

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“At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.” — Janis Ian

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“When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.” — Jim Henson

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“I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.” — Gerald R. Ford

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