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Hope

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. – Emily Dickinson

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. – E. M. Forster

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes. – Yves Saint Laurent

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent. – Mignon McLaughlin

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of. – Lord Byron

I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing. – Pope John Paul II

The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. – James Madison

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place. – Colin Powell

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all. – William Butler Yeats

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. – Samuel Johnson

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. – Samuel Johnson

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. – Desmond Tutu

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. – Frank Lloyd Wright

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. – Desmond Tutu

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. – E. M. Forster

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there. – Jim Henson

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. – Alexander Pope

I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs. – James Herriot