I am not optimistic, but I've never been optimistic about humankind or America. The evidence never looks good in terms of forces… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how… — Walter Anderson Copy Share Image
Many [hooligans] discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I think people ultimately reveal themselves to everybody. I think that's the case with Sarah Palin's conduct, particularly after the Tucson shooting,… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
“I am a sanguinely optimistic person, I see the bright side, the silver lining, a half-full glass. Hence, my day is always… — Joseph V. Angeles Copy Share Image
I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts exclusively… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The United States represents hope, freedom and opportunities to those who are born here and to those who are not. Those values… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
“When hopeful and hopeless come together, both will learn great things from each other: Hopeful will learn the horror of being hopeless… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“I prefer to make my annotations 'hot on the heels', as it were, when the fortunes of battle, the worries, hopes and… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
It does get better, but YOU have to make it get better. I can't sit here and tell you that this is… — Luan Legacy Copy Share Image
Apple isn't the next Microsoft, you see. Apple is not the next anything because the role it aspires to transcends anything imaginable… — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
I care about our young people, and I wish them great success, because they are our Hope for the Future, and some… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Being a positive person doesn’t mean you don’t feel negative emotions. It means you have faith in your ability to get through… — Leticia Rae Copy Share Image
“Cindy Divine and her parents paused by their boat to take in the natural beauty. Lake Barkley could have been a top-paid… — Shafter Bailey Copy Share Image
There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins… — HG Wells Copy Share Image
If u find faith, u find love. If u find love, u find hope. If u find hope, u find joy. If… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“I’m more of a paranormal romance kind of girl. Sad… I know, but if a girl and a fallen angel can fall… — Nyrae Dawn Copy Share Image
And you don't have to be a preacher to carry on. That's why I've gone into the theater, with my mother's blessings,… — Yolanda King Copy Share Image
I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of… — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
“Let the sky celebrate! Let it pour some rain to wash away the past years' grief. Let the fireworks speak announcing a… — Noha Alaa El-Din Copy Share Image
Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
Writing is an act of hope. It means carving order out of chaos, of challenging one's own beliefs and assumptions, of facing… — Jack Heffron Copy Share Image
“I hope I can never trust my wife. If I trust her it means I know her. If I know her it… — Ben Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could be any different.” It’s accepting the past for what it was and… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“A Plan B life can be just as good or better than a Plan A life. You just have to let go… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
I did this one movie with a great director named Wayne Kramer. It was 'Crossing Over,' and Harrison Ford, Ashley Judd and… — Justin Chon Copy Share Image
“Hope comes in the form of synchronicities. When one even occurs and is followed by another, which is in complete alignment with… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
The hope was, people like me got to finally find our place in college or in the actual world. People who understood… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“The mind is the only level at which any lasting change can occur—it is the soil in which we plant our hopes… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
The House Foreign Affairs Committee can and should become the principal institution in Washington exercising foreign policy oversight and serving as an… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
“Sometimes hope is like wearing someone else’s coat. You know it can shield and protect you, just as it did them, but… — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
“Always, my only hope and my only strength and my only way to cope has been an utter abandonment to God, knowing… — Sally Clarkson Copy Share Image
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