Famous Quotes & Sayings

Luc de Clapiers

Hope deceives more men than cunning does.

Luc de Clapiers

Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.

Jim Wallis

It's hope as a decision that makes change possible.

John Ciardi

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

Malcolm X

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

And hopefully by the end of today or sometime tomorrow, we'll know if that is possible.

Erik Morales

. . . I just hope I can keep pressure on him and make him fight.

Maya Angelou

Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope.

Matthew Arnold

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

Maxine Hong Kingston

In a time of destruction, create something.

Maya Angelou

When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.

Maurice Chevalier

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Mary Stewart

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

Mary Ellen Chase

Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.

Plautus

Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.

Plato

If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.

Kurt Cobain

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

Napoleon Hill

There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.

Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.

Norman Spinrad

I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.

Orison Swett Marden

There is no medicine like hope ...

Orison Swett Marden

As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure

Orison Swett Marden

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

The truth is on our side, I've never seen anything like it in 27 years of my career, and I hope to never see it again.

Alan Stern

These policies represented the hopes and the plans of those that were murdered in the Holocaust. They had taken out policies in order to protect their families.

Scott Thomas

This is only a quick fix, and what I hope is this will send a message to the province (that) it took a students' union to step in and get this young man into residence.

This is my last semester, and that's it. I hope I can walk (for a diploma). I hope we're not out of town when it happens. If not, then I'll be here to get (her diploma).

Tatiana Golovin

This is my first retirement and hopefully my last because you feel so bad, especially because you just want to keep playing.

This has led to recurrent crises. One hopes it is different this time.

All he said was: 'I hope no one plans to make money on browsers, because they will get bundled into the operating system,' ... And this was before Netscape released the beta.

All I could think about was, 'I hope he doesn't make that.

Eric Hoffer

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

Eric Hoffer

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.