hope

"Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well."

"I'm different, and I have to be a warrior to be that way. But I have had some success; I hope I have touched the lives of some wonderful people, all by being what I see as myself but some others people see as different."

"I wouldn't wear turtlenecks. That I'm not envious of. But who knows? I might sneak out a few things and hope and pray that no one says, 'Hey, didn't you wear that when you were playing an enormous geek on TV?'"

"On every birthday, I ask my wife, 'What would you like this year?' and her instant reply is, 'Diamonds! Diamonds! Diamonds!' I'm always living in hope that one day she'll say she just wants me!"

"What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God."

"Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world."

"Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting."

"Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way."

"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."

"Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities."

"Many are less fortunate than you’ may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower."

"In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know."

"That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man."

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."

"Some people try to change the world one life at a time. Others try to change the world one death at a time. And I try to change the world one bucket full of dirt at a time."

"Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope."

"...William Stegner...coined the term 'the geography of hope,' countering the argument that wilderness preservation served elites with the assertion that wilderness could be a place in which everyone could locate their hopefulness even if few actually entered it."

"Don't you miss it?"I say. "Being free."He laughs."

"This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope."

"Women think in [Douglas] Sirk’s films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always reacting, doing what women are supposed to do, but in Sirk they think. It’s something that has to be seen. It’s great to see women think. It gives one hope. Honestly."