Hope Quotes

“If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.”

-- Tony Kushner

“Hope is the denial of reality.”

-- Margaret Weis

“The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.”

-- Simone Weil

“I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.”

-- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.”

-- Melissa Etheridge

“He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything.”

-- Thomas Carlyle

“Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.”

-- Octavia Butler

“Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.”

-- Kofi Annan

“I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.”

-- George McGovern

“Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.”

-- Barbara Kingsolver