939 private quotes tagged hope

“Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.” — Barbara Kingsolver

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“I hope we never get to the point that we put ourselves in Jesus' place. But when I read the New Testament basically, we get three mandates: to love God, to love each other, and to take care of the least among us. And I think this is at least a step in the right direction.” — Bob Riley

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“As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope.” — Annette Funicello

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“If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.” — Tony Kushner

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“I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.” — Dave Eggers

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“Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.” — Christina Rossetti

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“I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.” — Ben Kingsley

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“I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don't know, because it's not in your hands, you don't make the decision.” — Beth Ditto

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“I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.” — Lionel Messi

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“As a relatively young woman - I'm 33 - I hope to one day have a family and already have commitments. If and when I'm elected as an MP, I would face a choice: take my family with me to London each week or be apart for four, maybe five, nights a week.” — Lucy Powell

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“I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.” — Craig Ferguson

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“When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.” — Whoopi Goldberg

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“I don't want to say never, but I hope I don't become that 'take me seriously now' guy.” — Trey Parker

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“Hope is a very unruly emotion.” — Gloria Steinem

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“You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.” — Tony Kushner

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“For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.” — Henry Norris Russell

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“I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.” — Studs Terkel

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“We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.'” — Studs Terkel

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“A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.” — Axel Munthe

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“Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.” — Arnold Bennett

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“I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.” — Robert Capa

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“I don't believe that I'm better than anybody, but I do believe that I'll try harder than most and I hope that people just join me for a little bit of a ride.” — Tom DeLonge

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“I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.” — Mariah Carey

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“I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.” — J. J. Abrams

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“So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful.” — Jennifer Granholm

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