hope

"Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed."

"I was the guy who was friends with everybody. Yes, I had my core group of friends, but I wasn't part of a clique that excluded people. I hope they thought I was a nice guy. I tried to be just friendly and outgoing. I was class president. I'm supposed to run my class reunion in 2013."

"Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon."

"Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark."

"I hope that there's a difference between being childish and childlike and that I'm the latter, if you take my meaning. I often sort of wonder. I don't think I'm a terribly good grown-up; I don't take responsibility easily or well in many areas of life. Finance and stuff like that, I'm absolutely appalling."

"Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it."

"I suppose she's right. It's like a metaphor for life: No one wants an ornery old goat, but we can't resist opening the door ayway. We can't keep from hoping."

"Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive."

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

"It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivities, the desire of their heart and how they want to live their life and the decisions that they make. I can even respect people's decisions and lifestyle choices just as I hope they have the courtesy to respect my decisions and my choices."

"Some men don't have the opportunity to be the type of father they need to be, and I hope my example teaches them to step up."

"And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved."

"To hear the phrase "our only hope"always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left."

"I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains."

"Hope is holding on to the promises of God."

"My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding."

"While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope."

"Hope is possible, when you decide to believe that what you are hoping for is possible."

"My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity."

"The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world."