“I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.”

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

“All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.”

“I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.”

“I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.”

“Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do.”

“The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.”

“Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.”

“They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.”

“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.”

“Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.”

“They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.”

“If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.”

“When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.”

“We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.”

“I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.”

“Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.”

“Death is the great hope of all life the desire to expend itself to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.”

“Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.”

“My hope is that that person will come forward that can win the presidency that we can all get behind.”

“The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.”