Hope Quotes

“I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.”

-- Studs Terkel

“I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny.”

-- Craig Ferguson

“I hope all you young girls see yourself up there... we were just like you.”

-- Mia Hamm

“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.”

-- E. M. Forster

“I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.”

-- Ben Kingsley

“I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.”

-- Tracey Ullman

“One must not hope to be more than one can be.”

-- Nicolas Chamfort

“In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.”

-- John Hench

“A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.”

-- Thomas Carlyle

“But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one.”

-- Marco Rubio