Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Vitter

I am hopeful we are turning the corner.

Bob Bennett

I am hopeful they're recognizing their position, because it is very extreme. I am not going to violate attorney-client privilege.

I am hopeful that this team will be able to surprise some people this season.

I am hopeful that they will make it.

Carl Sandburg

Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.

Carl Sandburg

Time is a great teacher, Who can live without hope?

Calvin Coolidge

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

Alain de Botton

We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.

Charles R. Swindoll

Hope is like an anchor. Our hope in Christ stabilizes us in the storms of life, but unlike an anchor, it does not hold us back.

Barbara Boxer

I'm hopeful that the energy efficiency and public buildings bill will have their endorsement.

Aristotle Onassis

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Brother Lawrence

Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues.

Edward Young

Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.

Edmund Leach

How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the organizational ideas that are present in any society as a mathematical pattern.

Edmund Spenser

Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?

Edmund Burke

The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.

Elie Wiesel

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

Elie Wiesel

For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference means solitude. Those who are indifferent do not see others. They feel nothing for others and are unconcerned with what might happen to them. They are surrounded by a great emptiness. Filled by it, in fact. They are devoid of all hope as well as imagination. In other words, devoid of any future.

E. W. Howe

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

Edward Taylor

We should work together in every opportunity we get, ... If that's their plan, I hope they can step in. There are kids in the school system who live in the city.

I want to win a major, and hopefully I can win the four majors in one year.

Seth Shostak

People don't learn science in movies. You don't go to the movies thinking, 'I hope I learn some quantum mechanics this afternoon.' But on the other hand, movies are instrumental and influential in getting young people interested in science.

I am pleased that my work has been recognized, and I hope to be a role model.

Gregory Benford

We hope we can slow or possibly reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer's.

Gary Owen

Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ticket agent. I hope they notice me because I'll get better service. If I'm at a restaurant, I look for the black waiter. Rent-a-Car, give you the upgrade.

Michelle Fairley

You have no idea what you get involved in when you start a role. You just hope that it's going to be successful.

Albert Camus

Where there is no hope, we must invent it.

D. H. Lawrence

Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure.

Dale Carnegie

A smile is nature's best antidote for discouragement. It brings rest to the weary, sunshine to those who are frowning, and hope to those who are hopeless and defeated. A smile is so valuable that it can't be bought, begged, borrowed, or taken away against your will. You have to be willing to give a smile away before it can do anyone else any good. So if someone is too tired or grumpy to flash you a smile, let him have one of yours anyway. Nobody needs a smile as much as the person who has none to give.

Cory Booker

When happy, be kind. When angry, be kind. When hopeful, be kind. When discouraged, be kind. When ever, be kind.

e. e. cummings

Spring is like a perhaps hand

e. e. cummings

hopes dance best on bald men's hair

E. B. White

No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.