One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. – Thomas Reed
I hope to inspire people, influence people. – Ashley Tisdale
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness. – B. H. Liddell Hart
So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do. – Nicolaus Copernicus
As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours. – LL Cool J
I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding. – Gustav Mahler
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. – Ursula K. Le Guin
I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame. – Robert Mapplethorpe
For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush. – Karl Rove
My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage. – Sonia Sotomayor
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. – Orville Wright
The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living. – Thabo Mbeki
The great hope of society is in individual character. – William Ellery Channing
I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose – although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope. – Danny Boyle
In between films I like to travel and hope to visit every continent before I become a mother. – Diane Kruger
To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion. – Mikhail Bakunin
It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. – Marion Zimmer Bradley
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped. – Lillian Hellman
We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong. – Judith Viorst
There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics. – Emma Goldman
