Ultimately, I think people are so hopeful for having some joy in life that is really hard to find. You can't make… — Natasha Lyonne 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
“As we watch, in fascination, the arresting replicas of reality on our television screen, there may sit, in the same room, a… — Robert O'Brien Copy Share Image
There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The most important thing for me is that I've used my talents as a writer to enable the Ogoni people to confront… — Ken Saro-Wiwa Copy Share Image
I talk about my grandmother a lot, because she's an amazing person - not in some dramatic, distinct, unique way, but anybody… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Despite all of our incessant tinkering, we can’t manufacture the things we most desperately need. And if perchance we do, they will… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Neurologically, people have a need to feel oriented, to know where they are, not just in terms of a compass and not… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“"The men whom I have seen succeed best in life have always been cheerful and hopeful men, who went about their business… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are full of girls who wait, who endure, who suffer. Good girls. Obedient girls. Girls who crush nettles until their… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly… — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
“Hopefulness is risky, since it is after all a form of trust, trust in the unknown and the possible, even in discontinuity.… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
People tell me that they are so hopeful when they see me and other children 'school-striking,' and they say, 'Oh the children… — Greta Thunburg Copy Share Image
“We're romantic. We're hopeful. We're done for. The worst part of this all? The idea of struggle and compromise seems exciting to… — Alida Nugent Copy Share Image
“When will the others come? "And there is one who will never come. At least we will not see him if he… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And it occurred to me that in this new millennial life of instant and ubiquitous connection, you don't in fact communicate so… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
By exploring other worlds we safeguard this one. By itself, I think this fact more than justifies the money our species has… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
One of the best safeguards of our hopes, I have suggested, is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness… — William F. Lynch Copy Share Image
We have always believed that our people can stand on no higher ground than the school ground, or can enter any more… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“... Wait till next year. I know some people might find this depressing, and are understandable impatient for next year to finally… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“I think it's incomparably sweet when someone writes something for you.. even if it doesn't rhyme or even if it isn't very… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
I'll just be your brother from now on." he said, looking at her with a hopeful expectation that she would be pleased,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
When I'm talking to people, I find myself quoting the three organizing rules of Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter was initiated… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The Republican leadership is quite hopeful at this time that they will have wide latitude. [Donald] Trump is a big visionary guy,… — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
What I really believe is the only hopeful relation between our life and the whole of life is one of reverence and… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Even if their outward fortunes could be absolutely equalized, there would be, from individual constitution alone, an aristocracy and a democracy in… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
If we try to prohibit encryption or discourage it or make it more difficult to use, we're going to suffer the consequences… — Matt Blaze Copy Share Image
“he couldn’t help but be hopeful that the house served as a metaphor for his own life—it was broken now, but one… — Ania Ahlborn Copy Share Image
“It wasn't my intention to love you that much. I did everything to show how much I care for you. But I… — Aser Alas Jr Copy Share Image
I imagined Kandinsky's mind, spread out all over the world, and then gathered together. Everyone having only a piece of the puzzle.… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“I know for a fact that no matter where I go, the memory and the suffering of not being with you will… — CSTPimentel Copy Share Image
The power of growth, of improvement, the power to overcome all stagnation and break through every obstacle and transform a barren wasteland… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
I have received emails from readers who have said that they were emotionally impacted by the books, and they feel they are… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
The generations before you failed. They didn’t stay up all night. They got distracted and lost sight of the fact that life… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
After approximately two decades and several billion dollars…Among the various types of cancer that account for 78% of the incidence..the upward trend… — Daniel S. Greenberg Copy Share Image