Hope Quotes

"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea"

John Ciardi, Dramatist

"I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach"

Don Shula, Coach

"If there's one thing I hope people are certain of it's this: I'm looking out for YOU - the taxpayer"

Laura Miller, Politician

"Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope"

Mikhail Saakashvili, Statesman

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

"Fundamentalism as it is called is not confined to the Muslim world. It is something that we have seen in different parts of the world. Let us hope that a dialogue between the followers of the three great monotheistic religions could help in putting an end to this"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow"

Howard Nemerov, Poet

"When you sing and people want that you sing, then you can hope to be great"

Andrea Bocelli, Musician

"Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story"

Elvis Presley, Musician

"The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat"

Jacques Yves Cousteau, Explorer

"The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

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

Magic Johnson, Athlete

"Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace"

Frank B. Kellogg, Politician

"Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products"

Charles W. Pickering, Judge

"How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

"Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest"

Sarah Ban Breathnach, Author

"Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation"

Jane Addams, Activist

"How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it"

Gerald Scarfe, Artist

"Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will"

Josh Hartnett, Actor

"The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope"

Wendell Berry, Poet

"I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women"

John Bright, Politician

"I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"Hope is but the dream of those who wake"

Matthew Prior, Poet

"It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit"

William Makepeace Thackeray, Novelist

"Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped"

Lillian Hellman, Dramatist

"You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China's progress is important to us"

Sellapan Ramanathan, Statesman

"My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness"

Gabrielle Roy, Author

"Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom"

Jim DeMint, Politician

"And I came close to losing a part of my foot on two occasions. I hope I'm consistently lucky and that the next time I develop a blister or step on something sharp, that I don't go as far as I did on those two times"

Mary Tyler Moore, Actress

"What we can do now is contribute to a clearer understanding of what happened that day on Everest in the hope that the lessons to be learned will reduce the risk for others who, like us, take on the challenge of the mountains"

Anatoli Boukreev, Athlete

"I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't"

Viggo Mortensen, Actor

"The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake"

Basil C. Hume

"He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever"

Michael Foot, Politician

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