3 December 2020 Anne Tyler But what I hope for from a book – either one that I write or one that I read – is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don’t want to think of the writer.
3 December 2020 Hodding Carter There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
3 December 2020 Bryant H. McGill Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.
3 December 2020 Susanna Moodie Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
3 December 2020 Janis Ian At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life’s all about.
3 December 2020 Muhammad Ali Jinnah Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.
3 December 2020 Miguel de Unamuno If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.
3 December 2020 Frank B. Kellogg Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.
3 December 2020 Carol Alt I hope that women everywhere will wear this jewelry and feel the passion and love that is, to me, the real spirit of True Harmony.
3 December 2020 Katherine Jenkins I really feel confident about my dancing now, so I hope there could be a place for me in the West End or on Broadway – maybe a musical, maybe my own show.
3 December 2020 Bernard Williams There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
3 December 2020 Ingrid Newkirk I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
3 December 2020 Jan Brewer I am encouraged that there’s going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. I mean, I hope that’s not wishful thinking.
3 December 2020 Aung San Suu Kyi I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don’t believe in people just hoping.
3 December 2020 Tom Hanks That’s what’s nice about directing a film and having it done: There’s nothing more I can do about it. It’s done. That’s it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it.
3 December 2020 Andrew Young My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life.
3 December 2020 Bobby Darin Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let’s hope they make out as well as I did.
3 December 2020 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.
3 December 2020 Paul Theroux The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, ‘Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.’
3 December 2020 Tom Bodett They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
3 December 2020 Carol Vorderman I’m terrible as I never take my make-up off at night, which I know is really dreadful. Whenever I’m out partying I just can’t be bothered and now I am on ‘Loose Women’ that tends to be all the time. I hope next year holds even more parties for me.
3 December 2020 Richard Simmons I hope in my lifetime we can all continue to laugh at ourselves and not put down anyone for what they weigh.
3 December 2020 Lawrence Ferlinghetti I think if there’s a great depression there might be some hope.
