Hopeful famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces. As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us. In turn, we will be tempted to kill our computers, but we won't dare because we are already utterly, irreversibly dependent on these hopeful monsters that make modern life possible.
-- Alan Cooper -
A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
It is a terrifying as well as hopeful truth that we tend to bring into being in form whatever we fashion in thought.
-- Alice Hegan Rice -
This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.
-- Alice Waters -
I never met a hopeful Christian who didn't read their Bible.
-- Alistair Begg -
Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
-- Amelia Barr -
I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.
-- Andrew Bird -
I am hopeful that others who have suffered sexual harassment will not become discouraged by my experience, but instead will find the strength to speak out about this serious problem.
-- Anita Hill -
I don't have any faith, but I have a lot of hope, and I have a lot of dreams of what we could do with our intelligence if we had the will and the leadership and the understanding of how we could take all of our intelligence and our resources and create a world for our kids that is hopeful.
-- Ann Druyan -
Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
I find that the whole weight of relieving human misery and distress falls on the shoulders of those Heretics and Infidels; and though great part of this distress has been occasioned by those ravening wolves' hopeful converts.
-- Anne Royall -
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
For this war is essentially a war of conquest. If ever a nation did wage such a war, the North is now engaged, with a determination worthy of a more hopeful cause, in endeavoring to conquer the South...
-- Arthur Fremantle -
This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that the indirect is by far the most hopeful and economic form of strategy.
-- B. H. Liddell Hart -
Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.
-- Bainbridge Colby -
To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct. Baser even than hate, the thing with teeth, which can be stilled with a tone of voice or stunned by beauty. If the whole world of the living has to turn on the single point of remaining alive, that pointed endurance is the poetry of hope. The thing with feathers.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
-- Bette Midler -
... to be afraid is in a way to be hopeful, because to be afraid means that you haven't given up. You know it doesn't help, but you keep thrashing. The monster has you pinned to the wall, but you're not ready to say, 'Oh, hell, eat me.
-- Betty Rollin -
Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I'm hopeful, but very, very concerned.
-- Bill Nye -
There's a lot to be concerned about; there's more to be hopeful for.
-- Bob Goff -
What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.
-- Brad Henry -
Every time you start a project, you're hopeful that the critics receive it warmly.
-- Bryan Cranston -
In the past, I often found that when I reached out for a fast cure it led me down a slippery slope of more medications, hopeful dependence on the next prescription and ultimately a much longer drawn-out illness.
-- Carre Otis -
The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.
-- Chaka Fattah -
And it occurred to me that in this new millennial life of instant and ubiquitous connection, you don't in fact communicate so much as leave messages for one another, these odd improvisational performances, often sorry bits and samplings of ourselves that can't help but seem out of context. And then when you do finally reach someone, everyone's so out of practice or too hopeful or else embittered that you wonder if it would be better not to attempt contact at all.
-- Chang-Rae Lee -
The cynic thinks that he is being practical and that the hopeful person is not. It is actually the other way around. Cynicism is paralyzing, while the naïve person tries what the cynic says is impossible and sometimes succeeds.
-- Charles Eisenstein -
I'm a hopeful romantic. In a couple of drinks, I'll be a lucky romantic. That's why they call me Mr. Lucky.
-- Chris Isaak -
The '50s was a pretty wonderful time for people, it was hopeful.
-- Chris Isaak -
In this life, anything can happen - and what can help bring it to pass is Hope
-- Claude M. Bristol -
The power of growth, of improvement, the power to overcome all stagnation and break through every obstacle and transform a barren wasteland into a verdant field - that unstoppable power of hope resides right within your own heart. It wells up from the rich earth of your innermost being when you face the future without doubt or fear: "I can do more. I can grow. I can become a bigger and better human being."
-- Daisaku Ikeda -
If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!
-- Daniel Handler -
Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are societies which are free of sin? No, I don't. Do I think ours is, on balance, incomparably the most hopeful set of human relations the world has? Yes, I do.
-- Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
I'm lost in a transition. The old is dead, and I don't know what the new is. The only way to find the new is to start different things and see if there's something that can come out of experimentation. It's somewhat unsettling, but it's a hopeful thing in a way. I've been here before, lots of times.
-- David Lynch -
The hopeful part about that is when you do have that help, you will feel better. It still doesn't make this easy. Nothing makes this easy, but you can make better decisions.
-- David Sheff -
The one thing I feel is very hopeful, however, is the overwhelming participation of women in the movement for change.
-- David Suzuki -
My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.
-- Deana Carter -
In retrospect, everything is finite, but prospectively, there are infinite possibilities. I guess that's what makes life hopeful.
-- Demetri Martin -
In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
-- Don McLean -
Fulfilling the vision of the Irvine Ranch master plan has been a lifetime dedication and lifetime passion, and I am hopeful the heritage of our Irvine stewardship will live on in many new ways.
-- Donald Bren -
Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves ?Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here ?Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change ?
-- Donald Sutherland -
Where there is creativity there is hope and Haiti is the most hopeful place I've experienced
-- Donna Karan -
People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.
-- Edwidge Danticat -
He's solid. "You're fractured." He's hopeful. "You're hopeless." He's always there. "You're half there." He's faithful. "You're so not." He's giving. "You're afraid to give." He's honest. "You lie all the time." He's loving. "You don't know how to love.
-- Ellen Hopkins -
I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.
-- Eric Cantor -
I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
-- Fatos Nano -
Have hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow - No night but hath its morn.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
Growing up during the Cold War period, I always found that, although we always thought that the world would end in some sort of nuclear holocaust, at some point, everybody was pretty hopeful.
-- George Clooney -
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
-- George Eliot -
If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come.
-- George Eliot -
War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.
-- George Meade -
The most hopeful thing in the stories, I hope, is wit. I make it up. If I make up a world in which we're ruled by big talking turds, it doesn't mean that we are. So you shouldn't feel depressed...
-- George Saunders -
In the long term, to defeat this ideology [terrorism] - and they [terrorists] are bound by an ideology - you defeat it with a more hopeful ideology called freedom.
-- George W. Bush -
I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
-- George W. Bush -
In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically, dizzily happy. I belong to London as each of us can belong to only one place on this earth. And, in the same way, London belongs to me.
-- Gertrude Lawrence -
We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.
-- Giorgio Napolitano -
We've always known we'd eventually be called upon to open our shirts and save the day, and the superhero was a crude, hopeful attempt to talk about how we all might feel on that day of great power, and great responsibility.
-- Grant Morrison -
Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.
-- H. L. Mencken -
It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.
-- Harriet Martineau -
It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring. It is characteristic of genius to break up the artificial arrangements of conventionalism, and to view mankind in true perspective, in their gradations of inherent rather than of adventitious worth. Genius is therefore essentially democratic, and has always been so ...
-- Harriet Martineau -
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
-- Helen Keller -
All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
Your mind creates everything. Your conscious mind has much greater power than you can ever imagine. Your mind can create blessings or disasters, can heal or harm, can bring abundance or absence. It is up to your mind whether the world looks hopeful or hopeless.
-- Ilchi Lee -
This is a beautiful and hopeful time to be alive. We are at a turning point, and your contribution to the world is needed more than ever. All of your struggles, all the struggles of your ancestors, all the struggles of all life have led to this moment right now. You are the culmination of life's great yearning; you are the hope of the world.
-- Ilchi Lee -
The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain to this day without parallel. Their age is one of the best and most hopeful episodes in the life of mankind.
-- Isaiah Berlin -
So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.
-- Jack Layton -
By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.
-- Jack Youngblood -
I'm hopeful that we'll be able to study the ocean before we destroy it.
-- James Cameron -
I imagined Kandinsky's mind, spread out all over the world, and then gathered together. Everyone having only a piece of the puzzle. Only in a show like this could you see the complete picture, stack the pieces up, hold them to the light, see how it all fit together. It made me hopeful, like someday my life would make sense too, if I could just hold all the pieces together at the same time.
-- Janet Fitch -
If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, That is out there.
-- Jazmine Sullivan -
The CRAFT approach, developed by Bob Meyers at U of New Mexico, is one set of important tools that DO work, and it feels great to see families using these strategies and getting results, feeling hopeful again, feeling empowered, getting support, learning to trust themselves again, getting their lives and the lives of their children back.
-- Jeff Foote -
We are hopeful that you will want to visit our planet in the near future. We are in the process of restoring our environment to its original grandeur, and hope to have completed the task before your RSVP.
-- Jeremy Rifkin -
College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.
-- Jerry Kramer -
It's hope as a decision that makes change possible.
-- Jim Wallis -
Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.
-- Joan D. Chittister -
The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.
-- Joe Biden -
Well. That's helpful. We'll put an APB out on the Gingerbread Man. I'm not hopeful it'll do us much good, though. Word on the street is you can't catch him.
-- Joe Hill -
To bear adversity with meek submission to the will of God; to endure chastisement with all long-suffering and joyfulness; to appear cheerful amid surrounding gloom, hopeful amidst desponding circumstances, happy in God when there is nothing else to make us happy; he who does this has indeed made great advances in the divine life.
-- John Angell James -
Hope is the first thing to take some sort of action.
-- John Armstrong -
So, you could call me optimistic and hopeful and probably just a little bit naïve, but I'm coming from the space that the best way to predict the future is to get out there and just do it yourself
-- John Elkington -
For the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life.
-- John Milton -
Keep a light, hopeful heart. But Âexpect the worst.
-- Joyce Carol Oates -
I'm praying that was my one little dip in the cancer pool. I hope never to have to revisit that, but I learned a lot, I'm cancer free with a bright and hopeful future.
-- Julie Gold -
The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a political environment or a historical situation. But it felt like a really hopeful gesture in the painting.
-- Julie Mehretu -
Hope is an adventure, a going forward, a confident search for a rewarding life.
-- Karl A. Menninger -
Something good was happening. My life was rising from the ashes, and the sight of it left me feeling something like hopeful.
-- Katherine Center -
Hope ... is not a feeling; it is something you do.
-- Katherine Paterson -
From the 12th Congressional District Hopeful William Jefferson Clinton during the Nixon investigations. I wanted to share some information I've turned up regarding two of your Clinton quotes.
-- Keith Richards -
I'm lucky, always hopeful... I love my life.
-- Kimora Lee Simmons -
I feel the denial of gay marriage sends a prejudice message. Our youth deserve a fair and hopeful future with government that values us equally.
-- Lady Gaga -
I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we're even alive at all.
-- Lana Del Rey -
But I am a girl with a keen interest in having it all, and what follows are hopeful dispatches from the frontlines of that struggle.
-- Lena Dunham
