hope

"When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens."

"And when I raised myself to look at the man who’d spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall."

"You call it hope — that fire of fire!It is but agony of desire."

"How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress."

"Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another."

"Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up."

"I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for."

"We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn't want to be ordinary."

"Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest."

"I want him to love me as much as I love him."

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."

"Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us."

"I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life."

"The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits."

"Maybe what River had meant was that time itself was like a river, moving steadily forward, and you got to be in a new river every day, every hour. All my life I'd felt like a lake. A lake where everyhting was contained, forever. All my experiences, all the different people I'd been, everything I'd had, everything I'd lost...I carried them around with me, all the time"

"Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well."

"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."

"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’."

"I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will."

"Broken heart will turn into a stronger one within hope."