939 private quotes tagged hope

“Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.” — Bobby Darin

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“You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.” — Charles Ives

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“People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they're right.” — David Brudnoy

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“But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.” — Anne Tyler

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“I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.” — Howard Nemerov

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“I'm really happy here. I think anyone who knows me well, and the fans too I hope, they know that I love the area, and the bond that I've had with the fans has been fantastic.” — Frank Lampard

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“I think films have to reach people and really grab them. That's what I hope to do when I make a film - to get under your skin and really make you think about something, and have a transporting time that takes you somewhere.” — Mira Nair

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“We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.” — Dionne Warwick

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“Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.” — Anthony Edwards

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“When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.” — Quintilian

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“There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.” — Gerard Way

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“There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.” — Paul Auster

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“Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.” — Nancy Reagan

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“I hope I can help guys come out and say, 'All right, dude, I got a manicure... and I liked it.'” — Ryan Seacrest

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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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“'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for.” — Greg Kinnear

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“As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, 'This is what I love doing, and I hope I'm going to be able to do it forever.'” — Tom Cruise

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“You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.” — Tom Waits

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“I remember thinking, That's what I need - and that hope was in Jesus Christ.” — Willie Aames

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“Jake Roberts has a hard enough time being Jake Roberts. The truth is a brutal thing, I just hope that the kids take the time to learn about each of the wrestlers in the game, and if the kids can learn from our mistakes, that would make me a happy man.” — Jake Roberts

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“The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.” — Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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“Hope is a risk that must be run.” — Georges Bernanos

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“Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80.” — Anish Kapoor

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“I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.” — Alexander Payne

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“I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession.” — Bette Midler

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