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" 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. "

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" I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife. "

" I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred. "

Ernest Hemingway

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Afraid

" It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law. "

Sonia Sotomayor

" When I was a little kid, I looked up to other people, so I hope that I can inspire little kids. "

" There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope. "

" An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness. "

Sonia Sotomayor

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

" I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it. "

" Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear. "

" 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. "

" 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

Yourself

Hope

Laughter

" My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair. "

" I hope that basketball gains momentum and kids understand that you can actually make a living from it. Not just the N.B.A. You can get a scholarship, a free degree - like, no student loan you have to pay off. That's huge in life. Once they realize that in New Zealand, I hope they get inspired. "

" Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

Without

Only

Hope

" The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription. "

" When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope. "

" Every place has a story - or a thousand stories. Findery brings places to life, be they where you stand or where you hope to go. "

" Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. "

" I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind. "

" I hope that my daughter grows up empowered and doesn't define herself by the way she looks but by qualities that make her a intelligent, strong and responsible woman. "

" No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous. "

Sonia Sotomayor

" I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school. "

" Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. "

Arthur Miller

Right

Regrets

" '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. "

" 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. "

" I hope that what I am today is of positive benefit to other people. "

Nneka

Today

Hope

" Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend. "

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Acquaintance

Pleasant

Hope

" The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.' "