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" Mediocrity never goes away - but neither, I hope, do those who are willing to challenge it. "

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" Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse. "

Karl A. Menninger

" Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel. "

Michael Morpurgo

" When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it's a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people. "

" Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment. "

" If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. "

" I play guitar quite a bit, because I'm always in search of something. I don't play to jam, but because I'm fishing. I'm looking for something, that I hope you can never find. If I do find it, I'm afraid I won't have a need to do this any more. "

Robbie Robertson

" I have learned that music helps a lot of people survive, and they want songs that can give them something - I guess you could call it hope. "

" I'm conflicted about the lyric tattoo thing. I feel like that's a lifetime decision, and I always feel like, 'I hope you don't regret this a couple years from now when you get tired of that song.' "

" You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. "

" There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also. "

Melissa Etheridge

" When you make a film, you realize that the audience will be powerless to stop it or flip back to refresh their memories or skip the boring parts. They are at the mercy of your storytelling. "

" I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. "

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

" My intention is to get more involved in social projects so I can give people a message of hope. "

" It saddens me to see the reality-television shows that are getting so much fanfare that are a celebration of stupidity and the degradation of women. And those women are consistently wearing too short, too tight dresses. I hope the trend of aging gracefully returns. "

" I hope that people remember me not just as a good businesswoman but as a great friend - and a heck of a lot of fun. "

" You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly. "

" We have to help others. I hope that some of the young players today understand that. It's not about them. The Man Upstairs gave them that ability to play, and play consistently, but he also wants them to open their hearts and understand that people need their help. "

" Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love. "

" We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon. "

" But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. "

" I only hope that He will let me preach to those who have never heard that name Jesus. What else is worthwhile in this life? I have heard of nothing better. 'Lord, send me!' "

" When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man! "

" 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 rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on. "

" Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still. "

" Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of people. "

" Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. "

Bertrand Russell

" There's already a lot of active research going on using the Crispr technology to fix diseases like Duchenne muscular dystrophy or cystic fibrosis or Huntington's disease. They're all diseases that have known genetic causes, and we now have the technology that can repair those mutations to provide, we hope, patients with a normal life. "

Jennifer Doudna

" When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled. "