Hope Quotes
“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.”
“In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“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.”
-- Harry Nilsson
“Today, one year after their divorce, Pamela and Tommy Lee announced they're getting back together. You know what that means? There's still hope for Ike and Tina Turner.”
-- Jay Leno
“Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope.”
-- Reinhold Niebuhr