hope

"We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion."

"I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today."

"Hope is but the dream of those who wake."

"Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook."

"Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it."

"Don’t hope you will receive help from the words of life because they all bring you to death."

"In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?"

"It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation."

"I always believe things are going to work out."

"Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character."

"The expectation in the Obama Administration, or at least the hope, is that a nuclear deal with the West could ultimately moderate Iranian behavior by helping to integrate the country more thoroughly into the international system. Will this happen? It's impossible to predict, of course. We will only know if we get there."

"What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go."

"The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope."

"I don't think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didn't achieve that much even at that time. You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world."

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

"Nor dread nor hope attendA dying animal;A man awaits his endDreading and hoping all."

"You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know."

"All hope abandon, ye who enter here!"

"There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory."

"I collaborated with fellow cat lover and designer Geren Ford to create a sweater that we hope any cat parent would wear to show their kitty pride and that all animal lovers can wear in support of the ASPCA."