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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
– Lillian Hellman
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I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
– Ernest Hemingway
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Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
– Napoleon Hill
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It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
– Eric Hoffer
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We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
– Doug Horton
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
– Edward W. Howe
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
– Victor Hugo
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The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
– Thomas Henry Huxley
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
– Daisaku Ikeda
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Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
– William Ralph Inge
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Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
– Robert Green Ingersoll
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In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
– Robert Green Ingersoll
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I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.
– Daniel Inouye
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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
– Washington Irving
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You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.
– Charles Ives
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All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
– Immanuel Kant
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
– Immanuel Kant
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I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.
– Alphonse Karr
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I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
– John F. Kennedy
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Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
– Jean Kerr
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You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.
– Jean Kerr
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I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
– Ben Kingsley
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
– Barbara Kingsolver
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Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
– Dean Koontz
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
– Fran Lebowitz
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Today, one year after their divorce, Pamela and Tommy Lee announced they're getting back together. You know what that means? There's still hope for Ike and Tina Turner.
– Jay Leno
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How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
– Letitia Landon
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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
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I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am.
– John Mayer
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Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
– Bryant H. McGill
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Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.
– Bryant H. McGill
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Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.
– Bryant H. McGill
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In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!
– Bryant H. McGill
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The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in what we hope for.
– Bryant H. McGill
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While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
– Bryant H. McGill
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
– Herman Melville
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Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
– Karl A. Menninger
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Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
– Thomas Merton
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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 Mvuyelwa Mbeki
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That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
– William McKinley
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A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
– Anna Mary Robertson Moses
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Right now I'm not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again.
– Stevie Nicks
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Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
– Reinhold Niebuhr
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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.
– Harry Nilsson
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God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.
– Chester W. Nimitz
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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
– Aristotle Onassis
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Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
– Ouida
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Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
– Ovid
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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
– Ovid
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Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.
– Michael Palin
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I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
– Pope John Paul II
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Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.
– Luigi Pirandello
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
– Alexander Pope
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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
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I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
– J. B. Priestley
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
– Pliny
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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
– Antonio Porchia
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It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
– George Dennison Prentice
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
– Francois Rabelais
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One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.
– Thomas Brackett Reed
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Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.
– Christopher Reeve
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Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
– Bob Riley
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I hope we never get to the point that we put ourselves in Jesus' place. But when I read the New Testament basically, we get three mandates: to love God, to love each other, and to take care of the least among us. And I think this is at least a step in the right direction.
– Bob Riley
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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
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She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
– Christina G. Rossetti
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Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
– John Ruskin
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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
– Bertrand Russell
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Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
– Marie Louise De La Ramee
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I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.
– Christina Ricci
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My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.
– Gabrielle Roy
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For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.
– Henry Norris Russell
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I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.
– Virgil Thomson
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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.
– Paul Tillich
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Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
– Mark Twain
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I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life.
– Shania Twain
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Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
– Yoshio Taniguchi
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I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed.
– Bob Uecker
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We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
– Bill Vaughan
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
– Marquis de Vauvenargues
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Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
– Gore Vidal
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When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.
– Judith Viorst
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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
– George Washington
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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
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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
– Oscar Wilde
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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
– Thornton Wilder
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I hope I'm not a tourist attraction - I'm sure that they come here really because St. Andrews is just amazing, a beautiful place.
– Prince William
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My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.
– Frank R. Wolf
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Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.
– George Weinberg
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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
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Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
– William Butler Yeats
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Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I shall endure.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
– Dante Alighieri
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I hope I never get so old I get religious.
– Ingmar Bergman
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
– Quida
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
– Marcus Fabius Quintilian
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Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
– Charles M. Schulz
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Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.
– Jet Li
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Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
– Desmond Tutu
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You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.
– Keanu Reeves
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