“Well I certainly have learned and I hope I’m moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.”– Jeffrey Archer Related Quotes “If a tiny bud dares unfold to a wakening new world, if a narrow blade of grass dares to poke its head up from an unlit earth, then surely I can rise and stretch my winter weary bones, surely I can set my face to the spring sun. Surely, I too can be reborn.”— Toni Sorenson “Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth’s treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal… To hope is to give yourself to the future – and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.”— Rebecca Solnit “When I go to a concert, I can’t help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts.”– Victoria Justice