“I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.”

“She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.”

“Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.”

“I just hope that theaters remain. I think there's something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There's something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions.”

“Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.”

“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

“The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.”

“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.”

“We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.”

“It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.”

“What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.”

“The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.”

“My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.”

“I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.”

“If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.”

“There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.”

“What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.”

“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.”

“Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.”

“You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.”