939 private quotes tagged hope

“I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.” — Mike Krzyzewski

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“I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.” — George W. Bush

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“I just hope that theaters remain. I think there's something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There's something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions.” — Jeff Bridges

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“Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.” — Kenny G

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“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.” — Jack Layton

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“While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.” — Bryant H. McGill

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“But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.” — Wallace Shawn

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“Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.” — Benjamin Banneker

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“Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.” — George Will

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“Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.” — Moon Unit Zappa

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“Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.” — Rudy Giuliani

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“If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.” — Kurt Cobain

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“Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.” — Joyce Carol Oates

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“You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.” — Jack Nicklaus

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“If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.” — Eldridge Cleaver

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“Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true they just hope to find out what reality is like.” — John Polkinghorne

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“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.” — Joseph Addison

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“All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.” — John Podhoretz

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“I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.” — David Blaine

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“My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I'm also very proud of being a very American chef.” — Bobby Flay

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“There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.” — Harry Bridges

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“I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.” — Kesha

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“All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.” — David Attenborough

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“I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.” — Jenna Bush

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