“It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.”

“I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.”

“The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.”

“I hope everybody's had fun, because I've enjoyed my ride. I can tell you that. Now it's time to step aside and let some other young kid come in and win. Hopefully, they will, too.”

“Corporations, consumers, and citizens must begin acting in concert to create a powerful third pillar of social transformation if we hope to meet the social challenges we currently face with equal force. This begins with corporations that choose to alter how they practice capitalism in two ways to serve the greater good.”

“At the end of the day, my hope is that when the new Medicare- Prescription Drug Law gets up and fully running a lot more seniors will pay a whole lot less than they do today for their much-needed medications.”

“I don't believe that I'm better than anybody, but I do believe that I'll try harder than most and I hope that people just join me for a little bit of a ride.”

“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.”

“I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.”

“Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide.”

“Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.”

“All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope.”

“Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.”

“Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.”

“There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.”

“Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.”

“What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?”

“Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.”

“Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.”

“So you know, I think that the federal government, the Democrats, and President Obama are selling a lot of hope and change, but no delivery of any of those promises.”

“When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.”