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" Beware how you take away hope from another human being. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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" There's a strange sense of accomplishment in making an independent film. Everything's against you; there's no time, and even less money - you bring a bottle of glue, chip in twenty bucks, and hope you all make it through the day. If you manage to finish it and it actually turns out to be pretty good, it's thrilling. "

" I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. "

" When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and hate. "

Kirsten Gillibrand

" Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. "

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" We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics. "

" I'm off to race around the world - a race against time and two men. I know I can beat time. I hope I can beat the men. "

Dorothy Kilgallen

" At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't. "

Rodney Dangerfield

" To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. "

" When the calamity we feared is already arrived, or when the expectation of it is so certain as to shut out hope, there seems to be a principle within us by which we look with misanthropic composure on the state to which we are reduced, and the heart sullenly contracts and accommodates itself to what it most abhorred. "

" So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do. "

Nicolaus Copernicus

" Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. "

" 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

" I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures. "

Tim Berners-Lee

" We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater. "

William Ralph Inge

" I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back. "

" We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" I never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope. "

" Over the years I've learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life. "

" Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others. "

Alexander Hamilton

" Hope is not a form of guarantee; it's a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark. "

" My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. "

" Everything I do, I do it with the hope that people will watch it more than twice. Whether it's 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Pacific Rim' or the opening of 'The Simpsons,' I do it with that hope. "

Guillermo del Toro

" I was the guy who was friends with everybody. Yes, I had my core group of friends, but I wasn't part of a clique that excluded people. I hope they thought I was a nice guy. I tried to be just friendly and outgoing. I was class president. I'm supposed to run my class reunion in 2013. "

" If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently? "

" 'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none. "

Charles Spurgeon

" There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new hope and a new responsibility for all. "

" I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins. "