hope

"I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then."

"People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous."

"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."

"Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is all that survives, as it eats its way along the blasting fuse. For this spark, history is merely an occasion, never a goal."

"At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about."

"Once a day has begun eventfully, it generally carries on being every bit as lively."

"I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope."

"Stop counting your losses and start counting your blessings. Only then will you discover that losses are always easier to point out and count than blessings. And that your blessings will always outnumber your losses, for they are truly immeasurable."

"Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for."

"Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp."

"There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality."

"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."

"Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst."

"In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer."

"Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!"

"I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'"

"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow."

"The chief beauty about timeis that you cannot waste it in advance.The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,as perfect, as unspoiled,as if you had never wasted or misapplieda single moment in all your life.You can turn over a new leaf every hourif you choose."

"The chimes were clinging in the wind. Or were they clanging, and clinging to hope?"

"Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness."