hope

"I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did."

"I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict."

"My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world."

"Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future."

"I want to reconcile the violence in your heart.I want to recognize your beauty's not just a mask.I want to exorcise the demons from your past.I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart."

"Let the Lord your God be your hope – seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honours, in short they hope to get from God things which are not God himself."

"Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within."

"Everything that is done in this world is done by hope."

"My answer is nope, so don’t even hope."

"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."

"A great hope fellYou heard no noiseThe ruin was within."

"When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives, when you deprive them of that choice, then you expect them to fight for these rights."

"There is hope in forgiveness"

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

"It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it."

"Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors."

"The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows."

"Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings."

"Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed."

"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."