Famous Quotes & Sayings

We want our furniture. If we can't get our furniture, we hope to get our money back.

Charles Dickens

Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.

Charles M. Schulz

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.

Frank Lautenberg

Was there a 12-hour shredding party at the White House that night? ... We don't know, but I hope that the prosecutor examines this troubling disclosure.

We're starting history, and we're getting this thing rolling. And hopefully we'll be able to do that for years to come.

We're going to soak it all up and hopefully we'll do well.

We're going to reevaluate him in 10 days, two weeks, and hopefully he'll be ready to go by then.

What he can hope for is to just play even with the president, minimizing Bush's strengths in some of those areas, but if he does play to tie that opens up the possibility that he can win on the economy.

What he can do is something we really need. Now that he's healthy, we're getting what we hoped to be getting all season.

Jack Rio

We're going to keep him out this week, then hopefully get him back as quick as we can, ... This is not a season-ending injury by any means.

We're going to have to find some different ways to score because of that, but we'll still attack. We hope to score as much as we did last year.

We're doing better than we thought we would. I hope we can keep it up

Edgar Guest

But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out.

Benjamin Franklin

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

Benjamin Franklin

Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.

Benjamin Franklin

Hope is an essential constituent of human life.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.

Avril Lavigne

I might look like a tough chick - and I am - but I`m also a hopeless romantic inside.

Arthur Golden

The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.

Baltasar Gracian

Hope is a great falsifier of truth.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping. We work for what we want. I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor, so we work to try and bring about the situation that is necessary for the country, and we are confident that we will get to the negotiation table at one time or another. This is the way all such situations pan out even with the most truculent dictator.

Diana Wynne Jones

Hope is the forward-looking part of memory.

Derrick Jensen

When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.

Derrick Jensen

Casey Maddox wrote that when philosophy dies, action begins. I would say in addition that when we stop hoping for external assistance, when we stop hoping that the awful situation we're in will somehow resolve itself, when we stop hoping the situation will somehow not get worse, then we are finally free - truly free - to honestly start working to thoroughly resolve it. I would say when hope dies, action begins.

Demetri Martin

In retrospect, everything is finite, but prospectively, there are infinite possibilities. I guess that's what makes life hopeful.

We're getting some more analysis. He's still on the team. He is wanting to play. We're hopeful that he can. But we're going to get the proper medical opinion.

We're hopeful what we have done to this point is enough.

Wayne Kramer

We're hopeful we'll be able to identify many more.

We're hopeful this property transaction will take place Monday. This is the first step in a lengthy process.

We're hopeful that in the next week or two that we can get him back on the practice field.

We're hopeful that a much more experienced and talented team this season will have us near or on top at the end of the regular season.

We're hopeful ... but realistically we're looking for deceased.