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" As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking. "

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" On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag! "

Alexander Henry

" Hope is a talent like any other. "

" Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. "

Gustave Flaubert

" My goal involves a hammock, a vegetable patch, and a solar-powered house. And I hope to eventually get there. "

" I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active. "

" Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. "

" The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling. "

" Hope and purpose in this world is living as best as you can and maybe having life that gives back. But simply giving back isn't purpose; it's a branch of purpose, but it is not the trunk or root of the tree. "

" If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks. "

Francois Rabelais

" I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self. "

" Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss. "

" As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate. "

" My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them. The king will not have the same weaknesses as his grandfather. I hope that he will have no favorites; but I am afraid that he is too mild and too easy. You may depend upon it that I will not draw the king into any great expenses. "

Marie Antoinette

" The Pope, I hope, can only be scared by God. "

" Real stories - whether in pure fiction or historical - have a certain indefinable power; we are endlessly curious about the past and hungry for learning that we hope will illuminate the present. "

Simon Sebag Montefiore

" I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy. "

Abdullah II of Jordan

" Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place. "

" Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. "

" Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do. "

" I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see. "

" Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities. "

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

" At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about. "

" Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do. "

" The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition. "

Christopher Hitchens

" There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics. "

" Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation? "

" When students get into a great university, it's a huge aspirational lift for their village. These students become beacons of hope. "

" Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. "

" I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance. "

Charles Bukowski

" I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work. "