“Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.”
Carol Shields The Stone Diaries
Source: The Stone Diaries
Quotes about hope page 12
“Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.”
Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian
“I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious”
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
“Because sometimes people who seem good
end up being not as good as you might have hoped.”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Variant: Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“I hoped Lissa remained the only one with a surprise sibling.”
Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice
Source: Last Sacrifice
“The only recognizable feature of hope is action.”
Grace Paley (1922–2007) American writer and activist
“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms
Source: A Farewell to Arms
Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist
Source: Talking About a Revolution: Interviews with Michael Albert, Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, bell hooks, Peter Kwong, Winona LaDuke, Manning Marable, Urvashi Vaid, and Howard Zinn
“Just like moons and suns,
With certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Anthony Bourdain book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
Autobiographical Notes (1952)
Context: I don't like people who like me because I'm a Negro; neither do I like people who find in the same accident grounds for contempt. I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. I think all theories are suspect, that the finest principles may have to be modified, or may even be pulverized by the demands of life, and that one must find, therefore, one's own moral center and move through the world hoping that this center will guide one aright. I consider that I have many responsibilities, but none greater than this: to last, as Hemingway says, and get my work done.
I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) American politician, 6th president of the United States (in office from 1825 to 1829)
Attributed in The Rebirth of a Nation : With a Bill of Rights for America's Third Century (1978) by Robert S. Minor, p. 10; this is a paraphrase of a statement by his father John Adams in a letter to his mother Abigail Adams (27 April 1777): "Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it".
Misattributed
Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice
Variant: I looked at you... saw your goodness, your hope, and your faith. Those are what make you beautiful. So, so beautiful.
Source: Last Sacrifice
“I inhale hope with every breath I take.”
Sharon Kay Penman book When Christ and His Saints Slept
Source: When Christ and His Saints Slept
“Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.”
Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Progress of Culture Phi Beta Kappa Address (July 18, 1867) <br class="br">1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)
“Hope for the best. Expect the worst.
The world's a stage. We're unrehearsed.”
Mel Brooks (1926) American director, writer, actor, and producer
Chorus
12 Chairs
Karen Chance American writer
Source: Midnight's Daughter
Randa Abdel-Fattah (1979) contemporary Australian writer of novels for young adults
Source: Does My Head Look Big In This?
Douglas Adams book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
“There's hope around the corner.”
Margaret Peterson Haddix book Because of Anya
Source: Because of Anya
“Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.”
Judy Blume (1938) American children's writer
“People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Circles
Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
“All human wisdom is contained in these words: Wait and hope!”
Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo
Also: Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,— "Wait and hope". <br class="br"> Chapter 117 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_117 <br class="br">Variant: All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope <br class="br">Source: The Count of Monte Cristo (1845–1846)
“The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause.”
Gary D. Schmidt book The Wednesday Wars
Source: The Wednesday Wars
“i hope i die
warmed
by the life that i tried
to live”
Nikki Giovanni (1943) American writer and academic
Source: The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998
“I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Source: The Witch Of Portobello
William Gibson book Neuromancer
Source: Neuromancer (1984)
Context: A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and he'd still see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void… The Sprawl was a long strange way home over the Pacific now, and he was no console man, no cyberspace cowboy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But the dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo, and he'd cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the dark, curled in his capsule in some coffin hotel, his hands clawed into the bedslab, temperfoam bunched between his fingers, trying to reach the console that wasn't there.
Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever
Variant: There are only really two positions one can take toward anything in life: hope or fear. Hope strengthens, fear kills.
Source: Darkfever
“Hope is a most beautiful drug.”
Jeremy Mercer (1971) Canadian writer
Source: Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.
“I hope nobody took the Razzle Dazzle Rose.”
James Frey book A Million Little Pieces
Source: A Million Little Pieces
“I hope they change my drugs soon. Whatever I'm on isn't working.”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
Source: Shadowfever
“Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.”
Edward Albee Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Source: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
“Hope is a function of struggle.”
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
