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" Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' - these are all romantic fatalist movies where there's a sort of glimmer of hope... but darkness wins. "

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" Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Lovely

People

Retire

" I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place. "

" If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me. "

" I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. "

" I've got two dogs; they're Boston terriers, and they're allowed everywhere. "

" One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them. "

" My parents used to fight a lot, and I think they fought a lot at night, and they would turn the television up to hide the sound of their fighting. "

" We now should hope and pray for a peace process. We've had good negotiations with both sides. Those are going to continue; those are going to be a commitment by the president and something that we're going to work hard on. And we all hope, for the sake of Israeli children and Palestinian children, that we do have peace. "

" Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold. "

" The first step to eternal life is you have to die. "

" I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Thoughts

People

" With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has to make an ongoing effort to consume this product and that the project is being consumed by just one person at a time. I really want to play to that strength because it's one of the few advantages books still have. "

" I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope. "

Frank Gehry

Building

Positive

" 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. "

" The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other. "

" Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief. "

" Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday. "

" While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope. "

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

While

May

Lose

" I think the world is becoming a place where younger and younger people can do great things, and I just hope I can inspire other young people to do the same. "

" I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away. "

" 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. "

" You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people. "

" Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in Russia and, I hope, will never again be. "

" I just don't want to die without a few scars. "

" I think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to it, is the way to climb out of a hole, is the way to build a better life, is the way to build a better community and a better country. "

" I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son. "

" The great hope for a quick and sweeping transition to renewable energy is wishful thinking. "

" If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell. "

" The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime. "

Chuck Palahniuk

American

Been

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Human

You

Away