939 private quotes tagged hope

“In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.” — Tony Blair

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“At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.” — William Hague

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“I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger

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“At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.” — Ivan Illich

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“I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.” — Gillian Anderson

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“Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.” — Calvin Coolidge

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“I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.” — Jack Kerouac

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“I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.” — Chief Joseph

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“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

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“If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.” — David Brainerd

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“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” — Joseph Addison

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“It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.” — Ricky Skaggs

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“I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.” — George McGovern

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“Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.” — Manuel Puig

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“It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.” — Richard P. Feynman

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“To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge, and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking, 'My ear looks weird from this angle, why is the camera over there?'” — Anna Kendrick

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“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

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“The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most.” — Curt Schilling

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“I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.” — Brian Clough

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“To live without Hope is to Cease to live.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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“That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.” — William McKinley

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“Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.” — Mignon McLaughlin

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“The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.” — Lech Walesa

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“Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.” — Bryant H. McGill

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“Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.” — Dean Koontz

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