About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. – Josh Billings
Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again. – Sarah Ban Breathnach
Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure. – George W. Bush
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. – Ovid
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even… without any hope of doing it well. – Oliver Herford
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater. – William Ralph Inge
Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope. – Mahalia Jackson
Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope. – Mick Jagger
Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced… because these things are unreliable and fleeting. – Charles Stanley
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. – Elie Wiesel
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit. – John Dryden
My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel. – Roseanne Barr
One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve. – George Allen, Sr.
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. – Vaclav Havel
If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it. – Doug Coupland
It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart. – Jonathan Carroll
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check. – Baltasar Gracian
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. – Hodding Carter
I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope. – Alanis Morissette
