939 private quotes tagged hope

“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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“The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.” — Dolly Parton

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“For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.” — LeBron James

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“My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.” — Ovid

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“When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.” — John Adams

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“Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.” — John Quincy Adams

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“Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.” — William Cowper

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“Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.” — Lewis B. Smedes

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“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.” — Pearl S. Buck

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“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.” — Jane Austen

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“In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

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“If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'” — Eric Alterman

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“If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.” — Eamon de Valera

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“Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.” — Bruce Barton

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“Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.” — Jesse Jackson

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“I mean, why am I considered an 'it girl?' Because I'm in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here's the thing with 'it girl' status. It's great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last?” — Amanda Seyfried

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“The way you deal with a scare is the way you deal with a laugh. The timing has to be perfect. When you're dealing with fear or laughter - emotions that happen spontaneously - you hope it's working. But in the moment, you really have no idea.” — Patrick Wilson

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“When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.” — W.C. Fields

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“My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.” — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

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“Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.” — Algernon Charles Swinburne

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“I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.” — Alphonse Karr

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“I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear.” — Thomas Friedman

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“My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that.” — Trey Parker

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“Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.” — King Abdullah II

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“I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.” — Roger Moore

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