Hopes Quotes

Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.

A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.

In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.

For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby.

I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.

A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

I actually have great hopes for the future.

In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.

A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.

In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.

I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?

The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects.

Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

I have been wearing black, which was a reaction to the Ginger thing. But now I have hopes and I can be anything. Tomorrow I might be naked with a feather boa, who knows?