hope

1.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

- Samuel Johnson

2.

A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.

- Junot Diaz

3.

But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.

- John F. Kennedy

4.

I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

- Brown, Helen Gurley

5.

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

- Bryan, William Jennings

6.

I can endure my own despair but not another's hope.

- William Walsh

7.

There is little hope that we shall learn the lessons God is for ever teaching us in the events of life till we get rid of our secret Atheism, till we give up the notion that God only visits now and then to disorder and destroy His own handiwork, and take back the old scriptural notion that God is visiting all day long for ever, to give order and life to His own work, to set it right where it goes wrong, and re-create it whenever it decays.

- Water of Life Sermons. 1866.

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The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie answers questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.

- Vidal, Gore

9.

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet, I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.

- Frank, Anne

10.

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

- Amis, Martin

11.

Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.

- Mae West

12.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

13.

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

- Robert Ingersoll

14.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

- Proverb, French

15.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

- Seneca

16.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

- Haliburton, Thomas C.

17.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

- Kant, Immanuel

18.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

- Acquinas, Saint Thomas

19.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

- Hugh Elliott

20.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

- Robert H. Goddard