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" Things start out as hopes and end up as habits. "

Lillian Hellman

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" I can only hope the federal aid made available today will be sufficient in our recovery efforts, and pray that our citizens continue to be safe from the fallout of this dangerous natural disaster. "

" Our team has a lot of talent. I hope that soon we will break out with four or five goals and avoid overtime. "

" Uncertainty is the refuge of hope. "

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" By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal. "

" A big part of directing is being strong in certain circumstances and taking the gamble and hope you don't get fired. "

" My long struggles as a soldier of the Chinese Revolution have forced me to realize the necessity of facing hard facts. There will be neither peace, nor hope, nor future for any of us unless we honestly aim at political, social and economic justice for all peoples of the world, great and small. "

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" I hope to continue to be serving South Dakota in Congress. "

Stephanie Herseth

" When I see my own people going through the tough times, it's a wake-up call. I hope my influence can impact someone else's decision to get out here and vote. "

" Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice. "

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" Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? "

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" I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. "

Yves Saint Laurent

" At the moment of death I hope to be surprised. "

" I hope I haven't grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don't want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I'm holding on to that. "

Catherine Hardwicke

" America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage. "

" Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place. "

" Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. "

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

William Makepeace Thackeray

" Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation. "

" 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. "

" I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive. "

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" 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. "

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" Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. "

" Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks. "

" 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. "

" Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings. "

James A. Baldwin

" So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do. "

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" I haven't written my own epitaph, and I'm not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served. "

" Be hopeful. Be optimistic. Never lose that sense of hope. "

" We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices. "