“I’m not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It’s not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.”
— Ben Affleck
“Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.”
— Marco Rubio
“You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.”
— Junot Diaz
“Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.”
— Lillian Hellman
“People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they’re right.”
— David Brudnoy
“I wear my wedding ring. We talk about when we’re going to get married again, which we hope is going to take place some time in this incredibly hectic calendar year.”
— Jim Lampley
“When people endure a traumatic event, they are either defeated or made stronger. On Sept. 11, I told New Yorkers, ‘I want you to emerge stronger from this.’ My words were partially a hope and partially an observation that people in New York City handle big things better than little things. I could not be more proud of the way my city responded.”
— Rudy Giuliani
“We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.”
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
“The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.”
— David Attenborough
“So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren’t always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself – at the optimism and hope – you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.”
— Sonia Sotomayor
“Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.”
— Tom Clancy
“I hope that I’m always struggling, really. You develop when you’re struggling. When you’re struggling, you get stronger.”
— Andrew Garfield
“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”
— Samuel Johnson
“I begin my reign with profound emotion at the honour of accepting the Crown, aware of the responsibility it entails and with the greatest hope for the future of Spain.”
— Felipe VI of Spain
“Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.”
— Claude Debussy
“I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn’t intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.”
— E. O. Wilson
“Obama has now lost his trustworthiness. He has lost any hope of majority support from the American people for his agenda. Obamacare has wiped that out. It really has.”
— Rush Limbaugh
“Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.”
— Gore Vidal
“I think I’ve lived a pretty hard life. What I mean by hard is that… I’ve been kind of reckless with things. I’m a passionate person. I’m a super passionate person. I think there’s definitely been sorrow in my life, good and bad. I think it comes through. I hope it comes through in my writing because to me that’s what artistry is.”
— Kip Moore
“In the end, I hope there’s a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.”
— Steve Wozniak
“The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.”
— Thomas Hardy
“I don’t want to tell your story because you’re a insensitive, self-centered moron. I’ve told a lot of stories about young people, and I always feel there’s hope.”
— Joel Schumacher
“I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.”
— Joshua Bell
“For African societies, no issue looms larger than employment. Only vibrant entrepreneurship and thriving small businesses can hope to provide the millions of jobs that are needed.”
— Richard Attias
“You don’t seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.”
— Jean Kerr
“The torch America carries is one of decency and hope. It is not America’s torch alone. But it is America’s duty – and honor – to hold it high enough that all the world can see its light.”
— Mitt Romney
“My goal involves a hammock, a vegetable patch, and a solar-powered house. And I hope to eventually get there.”
— Miranda Kerr
“The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”
— Samuel Johnson
“So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.”
— Nicolaus Copernicus
“Friends from the press, China needs to learn more about the world, and the world also needs to learn more about China. I hope you will continue to make more efforts and contributions to deepening the mutual understanding between China and the countries of the world.”
— Xi Jinping