Hopes Quotes

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

We did not speak in terms of strategy, in terms of overall economies, in terms of production and territorial conquest. We spoke of the impact of the bomb on the homes and the hopes of men and women.

Too many athletes are living in a tiny window. They have no vision for themselves - what they can be outside of football and what they can mean to a community. They just don't know any better. My hopes and dreams are unlimited.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

It finally became clear to me that they had no hopes of my ever walking again.

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

The Democratic Party has gotten narrower and it's gotten smaller and it's fundamentally wrong on all the key questions involving the economic future of this country and our hopes of prosperity. And many Americans are beginning to realize that.

One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know.

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Early in last season, George was very worried about other people's emotions, especially how they saw her, and felt she was outside looking in. This year, she still hopes people will accept her for who she is, but if they don't, she's OK with that.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.

Jobs that cannot be delivered must never be promised. It's unfair to raise people's hopes that way.

I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not.

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore.