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" Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. "

Barbara Kingsolver

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" Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation. "

" 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. "

" I hope to continue to inspire our nation's youth to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math so they, too, may reach for the stars. "

" It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit. "

William Makepeace Thackeray

" So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in. "

Sonia Sotomayor

" Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope. "

" The quality of one's emotional life changes over the years, doesn't it? But the basic instincts and desires, greed and hope, seem to remain constant. In the larger scope of things, there's a sense of fulfillment to living a creative life. So I guess that's what keeps me going. "

Tommy Lee Jones

" As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace. "

" To live without Hope is to Cease to live. "

Fyodor Dostoevsky

" All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope? "

" It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation. "

Gaston Caperton

" We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord. "

" I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out there on all those early songs and poems. I hope no one ever finds it. I don't think it's my finest work. "

" To me, we're marketing hope. "

" I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists. "

Marquis de Condorcet

" I hope peace is a part of everyday life. "

" I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that. "

David Henry Hwang

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

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" I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. "

Yves Saint Laurent

" Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it. "

Barbara Kingsolver

" Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker. "

" I've gone through many phases in music in my life. Before I was signed, I was making completely different music, and my fan base has followed me. They continue to follow me as the music progresses and as I grow as an artist. As long as I stay true and don't pretend to be someone I'm not, I hope they'll come along with it. "

" Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away. "

" Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. "

Barbara Kingsolver

" In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved. "

" Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world, to people of all faiths and backgrounds, with his powerful belief in the human spirit. "

" The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves. "

" I hope I will be remembered as a good father and a fair employer. And a good host, of course! "

Diego Della Valle

" The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again. "