“We live in a world of disappointment. You begin with high hopes and the beautiful innocence of childhood but you discover that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope - the door of opportunity - is to be shut… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Love blinds me so deep and dark, I see the world full of innocence, thoughts filled with affection, time brimming with hope… — Harshada Pathare Copy Share Image
Publishers have published women's fiction into a corner, and now we are all trying to punch our way out of it. We… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
The beauty of having nothing to lose, is you learn the beauty of having everything to gain. This is where hope lives.… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
We, like the people of Israel, would like to think we get to name God. By naming God, we hope to get… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
“Pushkin could cry hot tears, and he who can weep can hope. "I want to live, so that I may think and… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. It not infrequently happens that those who hunger for hope give… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I'm motivated by a love… — Moby Copy Share Image
I was single when I was first elected to Congress - and at 35 years old, I had given up the hope… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“My biggest gripe is still hope. In hell, hope is a really really bad habit. Like smoking cigarettes or fingernail biting. Hope… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“They will talk about you and it won't always be good. You won't even know them but they will critique you -… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“My theory is that hope is a form of madness. A benevolent one, sure, but madness all the same. Like an irrational… — Benjamin Wood Copy Share Image
I said we don't pin a lot of hopes of changing administrations [in U.S.] because that context has been going on for… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
“I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant,… — Klas Pontus Arnoldson Copy Share Image
And, I hope now that everybody understands that the Labour Party - as it always has done - stands for free speech… — Ron Davies Copy Share Image
“Someone who was happy would have little need to hope for change. But, conversely, an optimistic person was that way because he… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My association with Cocoon Fertility is beyond just offering hope through assisted fertility. I am asking women to come forward and take… — Soha Ali Khan Copy Share Image
If we are meant to be, no matter what, no matter how long it takes, we will be together. So I hope… — Ely Copy Share Image
How many of those forty-something celebrities, staring out from the covers of magazines with their beautiful babies, have conceived naturally, or without… — Kate Garraway Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid. You have to take risks in life. In life you're going to break a few hearts, and get your… — Yashowardhan Copy Share Image
The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Whatever good you would do out of fear of punishment, or hope of reward hereafter, the Atheist would do simply because it… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
“The history of the human race doesn’t make happy reading, does it? I’ve seen a lot of sadness during my time, but… — Peter James Copy Share Image
History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
I think of all the things that I've gotten to do, all the wonderful people that I've played with, being in the… — Paul Shaffer Copy Share Image
Honest hope has an edge. It's messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
There are lots of grounds for hope in Israeli society. We are seeing Israelis getting fed up with war, looking for solutions.… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
I've had so many experiences with film or musicals or books where I just walk away changed in some way. One of… — Tom Kitt Copy Share Image
Lift up yourselves, men, take yourselves out of the mire and hitch your hopes to the very stars themselves. Let no man… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
“Alas for our foolish human nature! Its fond mistakes are persistent. The dictates of reason take a long time to assert their… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
It goes without saying that any persons may attempt to unite kindred spirits, but, whatever their hopes and longings, none have the… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
“I may have been optimistic with respect to the timing on some of these things, but I didn’t over-promise on the outcome,”… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
Some people say and act like they really know and understand who I am inside...very few people do...Amber Hope, is one who… — Naquitta Faith Copy Share Image
I might cry tomorrow, but I may be smiling the day after. That's enough. That's the way life is. If I don't… — Ai Yazawa Copy Share Image
It's important to remember, when we're out there aggressively working for reform, that, even if our particular issue doesn't get resolved, we… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
In the summer of 1791, I gave up my concern in the 'New Annual Register,' the historical part of which I had… — William Godwin Copy Share Image