939 private quotes tagged hope

“Today, one year after their divorce, Pamela and Tommy Lee announced they're getting back together. You know what that means? There's still hope for Ike and Tina Turner.” — Jay Leno

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“One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.” — Thomas Reed

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“I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.” — Paul Simon

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“Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.” — Harlan Coben

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“Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.” — Eddie Vedder

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“I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.” — Robert Mapplethorpe

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“I think they'd rather us follow our hearts and I hope that's what some people will understand.” — Fred Durst

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“When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.” — Jason Reitman

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“I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me.” — Joel Madden

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“There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.” — E. W. Howe

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“Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

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“I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.” — Jason Reitman

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“This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.” — Robert Mapplethorpe

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“As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

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“For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.” — Karl Rove

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“I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.” — Gustav Mahler

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“I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.” — Aung San Suu Kyi

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“Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.” — John le Carre

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“As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.” — LL Cool J

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“There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.” — Jean Kerr

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“My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.” — Christian Bale

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“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.” — Hilaire Belloc

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“What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.” — Haile Gebrselassie

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“The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.” — Thabo Mbeki

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