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1391 Hopes quotes by 973 unique authors
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Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid,…
— John Green
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Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.
— Jean Ingelow
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have…
— Edmund Burke
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The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private. Wee need to…
— Wendell Berry
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Beauty is composed of many things and never stands alone. It is part of horizons, blue in the distance, great primeval silences, knowledge of all…
— Sigurd F. Olson
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Be a balanced optimist. Nobody is suggesting that you become an oblivious Pollyanna, pretending that nothing bad can or ever will happen. Doing so can…
— Dale Carnegie
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What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its…
— Horace
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest…
— Seneca the Younger
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Resentment is like taking poison in hopes that your enemy will die.
— Sandi Bachom
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They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and…
— Rose Macaulay
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It is government policy to phase out subsidies to nationalised industries. In line with this, the government hopes that the coal industry will be able…
— Tony Benn
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That bright blue ball rising over the moon's surface, containing everything we hold dear - the laughter of children, a quiet sunset, all the hopes…
— Barack Obama
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A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.
— Chauncey Depew
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You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the spark in…
— Henry Ford
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The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a capitalist is a…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.
— Richard Watson Gilder
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To awaken a new longing for holiness: this is the great pastoral challenge that we have before us, if we want to be faithful to…
— Unknown Author
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The Gospel is not merely a communication of things that can be known - it is one that makes things happen and is life-changing. The…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting…
— Bertrand Russell
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Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality of votes. South…
— George Washington
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And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now succeed more than…
— John F. Kennedy
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He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and…
— Samuel Johnson
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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their…
— John Ruskin
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We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are…
— Frank Moore Colby
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