Hope Quotes
“I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.”
“Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.”
-- John Ciardi
“In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?”
-- Barack Obama
“Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.”
-- Karl Rahner
“I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me.”
-- Alicia Silverstone
“I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do.”
-- Faye Dunaway