America, I don't think you can change history." All the same, his expression looked hopeful. "Sure we can. Besides, who'd ever know… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.... Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
“no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . And then one fine morning— So we… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
During the couple of years it took to write 'At The Bottom of Everything', I decided, on the sort of hopeful whim… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine,… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful. — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
We must not forget that these men and women who file through the narrow gates at Ellis Island, hopeful, confused, with bundles… — Walter Weyl Copy Share Image
Just when I get my church all sorted out, sheep from the goats, saved from the damned, hopeless from the hopeful, somebody… — William Henry Willimon Copy Share Image
We were trying to show that you should be hopeful, you should be optimistic, but you have to be consistent and persistent,… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
Saigon, U.S.A. aptly documents the birth of a new American community, uprooted in the aftermath of war and forever torn apart by… — Nguyen Qui Duc Copy Share Image
A mind always hopeful, confident, courageous, and determined on its set purpose, and keeping itself to that purpose, attracts to itself out… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
We grow up as natural optimists as Americans. Catholic priests were so hopeful as we watched the Vatican II experience. Yet, it's… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I want my work to always be hopeful, in the end. You're giving me two hours, and, in Shots Fired's case, 10… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The most hopeful thing in the stories, I hope, is wit. I make it up. If I make up a world in… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I'm hopeful, but very,… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“Keep the faith and be hopeful for the future.Our best life are ahead of us.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
