“I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software more clearly will be of tremendous value.”
— Guido van Rossum
“We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.”
— Judith Viorst
“It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it together. People are a lot more vital than I am and doing all kinds of things and leading really important movements.”
— Susan Sarandon
“I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I’m going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, ‘It ain’t bad, but it ain’t San Francisco.’”
— Herb Caen
“You don’t really know how your film is going to turn out, but you can give it your best shot and hope the audience loves it. This has been my approach right from the beginning, and it’s helped me a lot in my journey. All you can do is give the film your everything.”
— Katrina Kaif
“Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don’t need religion.”
— Penn Jillette
“When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.”
— John Dryden
“I hope to grow another head and two more hands, like an Indian goddess.”
— Bibhu Mohapatra
“I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.”
— Donald Davis
“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.”
— Miguel de Unamuno
“I hope people remember me for the kind of person that I am, not because of what I do.”
— Sean Faris
“Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality.”
— Nelson Mandela
“Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.”
— Bertrand Russell
“Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.”
— Anne Wilson Schaef
“My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society.”
— Frei Otto
“But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.”
— Charles Ives
“Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.”
— Lu Xun
“My father… very generous, very philanthropic, very charitable man. My siblings and I and my mother continue with always appreciating and always giving back. It’s something I hope that I’ve become a role model for my children.”
— Steve Tisch
“If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‘satisfactory,’ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?”
— Bill Gates
“I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.”
— Les Brown
“I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.”
— James Longstreet
“A Trump presidency will turn the economy around and restore the great American tradition of giving each new generation hope for brighter opportunities than those of the generation that came before.”
— Ivanka Trump
“Sometimes I only hope to make a good popcorn movie.”
— Lou Diamond Phillips
“For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.”
— LeBron James
“I do my work and do the best I can. I’m quite happy with my anonymity. All I can ever hope for is that I continue to do great work that will be remembered, and I leave my imprint so that my son can say proudly, ‘That’s my dad!’”
— Eamonn Walker
“‘Expect nothing and hope for the best’ is my mantra. A drama teacher called Joseph Blatchley told me that, and it’s the best advice I’ve had. If you keep an open mind and don’t expect too much, then you won’t be disappointed.”
— Michelle Dockery
“Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.”
— Paul Wellstone
“I hope I didn’t bore you too much with my life story.”
— Elvis Presley
“All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?”
— Immanuel Kant
“My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.”
— Gabrielle Roy