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" I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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" Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known. "

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" I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started. "

" The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. "

" 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

" Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow. "

" I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will. "

Arnold Schwarzenegger

" The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone. "

" I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse. "

" 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. "

" Man, I'm 31 years old and a husband with four kids; I hope I'm no thug. I hear all those negative things and don't hear anything positive. I think that's all those people feel... that way that's all they hear about when you hear Allen Iverson did something negative or something. "

" All hope abandon, ye who enter here! "

Dante Alighieri

" With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven. "

" We've got to rebuild human hearts - and persuade people that hope isn't just possible, but essential. "

" Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving. "

" I'm not the kind of person who likes to shout out my personal issues from the rooftops, but with my bipolar becoming public, I hope fellow sufferers will know it's completely controllable. I hope I can help remove any stigma attached to it, and that those who don't have it under control will seek help with all that is available to treat it. "

Catherine Zeta-Jones

" We cannot elect a president who provides no hope to the laid-off union worker, no hope for the mother of five and no hope for the researcher who might find a cure for cancer. We cannot elect a leader who is willfully ignorant to the outcry of young people who want real criminal justice reform and responsible gun safety legislation now. "

Sheila Jackson Lee

" I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything. "

" In addition to being what we are as BTS, we wanted to bring some changes, and we actually wanted to evolve as a group. We wanted to show our many colors, but we still want to console others and give hope to others. "

" Nothing is black or white, nothing's 'us or them.' But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope. "

" Uncertainty is the refuge of hope. "

Henri Frederic Amiel

" Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood. "

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Early Childhood

" It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job. "

" I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. "

" When people endure a traumatic event, they are either defeated or made stronger. On Sept. 11, I told New Yorkers, 'I want you to emerge stronger from this.' My words were partially a hope and partially an observation that people in New York City handle big things better than little things. I could not be more proud of the way my city responded. "

" Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. "

" Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will. "

" 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. "