Hope Quotes

Jim Acheson, our designer, told me I looked like his Auntie Wyn and I have never forgotten it. I wondered if it was the way I walked or wore my hat, but Jim just said that I had some indefinable air of an aunt. It was then I began to hope that one day I might play Lady Bracknell.

Tom Baker

I have not written about being a Negro at such length because I do not expect that to be my only subject, but only because it was the gate I had to unlock before I could hope to write about anything else.

James Baldwin

I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future.

Maurice Ashley

You think your temper is the worst in the world, but mine used to be just like it. ... I've been trying to cure it for forty years, and have only succeeded in controlling it. I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it. ... I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked.

Alcott, Louisa May

Hope is a waking dream.

Aristotle

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

One learns, I would hope, to discover what is right, what needs to be righted through work, through action.

Daniel Berrigan

The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.

Samuel Beckett

I hope i shall never hav so much reputashun that i shan't feel obliged to be alwus civil.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

We hope that Wisden is a constant, helping the reader to make sense of it all and providing a little contemplative calm.

Anthony Scyld Ivens Berry

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Ingmar Bergman

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Enoch Arnold Bennett

When I was nine, my life was devoted to seeing a tit. I was Captain Ahab, and it was my big white whale. I'd go down to Sears on a Sunday in hopes they'd remove a clothing from a mannequin. Sad but true, sad but fuckin' true.

Lewis Niles Black

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.

Hugo LaFayette Black

Thank you to Martin Scorsese - I hope my son will marry your daughter.

Catherine lise Blanchett
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