“We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.”
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“Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear.”
“When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.”
“Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.”
“On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a 'Restoring Honor' revival meeting featuring sexy guest star Sarah Palin, much as Bob Hope would roll out Raquel Welch in white go-go boots on his U.S.O. tours to give our fighting men a morale lift in their khakis.”
“I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.”
“I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere.”
“I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.”
“My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.”
“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.”
“When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.”
“The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.”
“I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.”
“I hope to work harder than ever to help people around the world.”
“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.”
“You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them.”
“One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don't know it.”
“If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.”
“For now, I'm just going to keep doing the work and hope I don't get fired. If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.”
“Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible.”
“Today, one year after their divorce, Pamela and Tommy Lee announced they're getting back together. You know what that means? There's still hope for Ike and Tina Turner.”
“I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.”
“They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.”
“One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.”