3 December 2020 E. M. Forster If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
3 December 2020 Jack Kerouac I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
3 December 2020 Michael Novak We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
3 December 2020 Gerald R. Ford I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.
3 December 2020 Jordin Sparks I love being able to sing for my job. I am blessed beyond words and I hope my fans can feel that while I’m on stage!
3 December 2020 Diablo Cody It’s possible that I’ve matured as a writer, and I hope I’ve matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.
3 December 2020 Jello Biafra That’s the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it’s time to pull over, you pull over and hope you can find a place to crash.
3 December 2020 Elbert Hubbard A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
3 December 2020 Harlan Coben Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.
3 December 2020 Lena Dunham I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.
3 December 2020 Karl A. Menninger Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
3 December 2020 Michael Palin 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.
3 December 2020 Nancy Pelosi In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
3 December 2020 David Attenborough All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.
3 December 2020 Roger Goodell The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, ‘I made my parents proud.’
3 December 2020 Chelsea Clinton I hope telling stories though ‘Making a Difference’ – as in my academic work and nonprofit work – will help me to live my grandmother’s adage of ‘Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.’
3 December 2020 Jane Austen Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
3 December 2020 Rodney Dangerfield At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can’t.
3 December 2020 Douglas Horton We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
3 December 2020 Noel Coward Let’s drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let’s drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.
3 December 2020 Charles M. Schulz 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.
3 December 2020 Brian Clough I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.
3 December 2020 Gustav Mahler I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.
3 December 2020 Jacques Yves Cousteau If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
3 December 2020 John Podhoretz All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.
