Hope Quotes
“I told the President, I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about negotiations is counter-productive, because when you give the Palestinians hope that the United States will do its negotiating for them, they are not going to sit down and talk.”
“If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.”
-- Joseph Addison
“Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.”
-- Samuel Smiles
“You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.”
-- Elizabeth Edwards
“The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.”
-- Willem de Kooning