In love unlike most other passions the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
StendhalThere is no medicine like hope no incentive so great and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
Orison Swett MardenNeither should a ship rely on one small anchor nor should life rest on a single hope.
EpictetusWe promise in proportion to our hopes and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
Francois de La RochefoucauldNor dread nor hope attend a dying animal, a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
William Butler YeatsCome gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
William ShakespeareThose who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMy lyrics are a big pile of contradictions. They're split between very sincere opinions and feelings that I have and sarcastic opinions and feelings that I have and sarcastic and hopeful humorous rebuttles towards cliche bohemian ideals that have been exhausted for years. I meean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork... Geeks Unite.
Kurt CobainWe hope people will walk away with the idea that this was a very frequent act of violence ... We won't be able to deny it any longer.
James AllenIf I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. ForsterConfidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIt is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
Eric HofferIf you wish success in life make perseverance your bosom friend experience your wise counselor caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph AddisonProsperity is not without many fears and distastes, adversity not without many comforts and hopes
Francis BaconIn the night of death hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Robert Green IngersollThere is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
Bill CosbyFor cycling and the community it's a big step. This would be a great way to bring kids into the sport and have them around coaches that are constantly observing them. I hope it happens.
Lance ArmstrongI want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions their insecurities people's distress and their hopes and dreams.
Princess DianaWhy are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
Henry MillerTo my great disappointment it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield Illinois.
Paul RyanActing provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
Washington IrvingWell I'm like a drug addict I'm always saying I'm going to stop and then I don't what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.
Stephen KingWe both do what we need to do to win the game. In my case we have a young team so in a lot of circumstances I've had to carry the load for us to be competitive in ballgames. But I hope [Iverson] in Philadelphia and I in L.A. we can get to the point when we won't have to score that many points.
Kobe BryantI hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun and I did want it to be about individuality but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
Lady GagaWe promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.
Dolly PartonProsperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
Francis BaconYouth is to all the glad season of life, but often only by what it hopes not by what it attains or what it escapes.
Thomas CarlyleAll the privilege I claim for my own sex... is that of loving longest when existence or when hope is gone.
Jane AustenI hope our wisdom will grow with our power and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Thomas JeffersonIt is difficult to say what is impossible for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Robert H. SchullerThe mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it but is always breaking away from the present moment and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.
Samuel JohnsonI'd like to share my experiences and the lessons I've learned and hopefully create some amazing fun courses.
Tiger WoodsIf you start in the pit of despair with these profane awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark awful beginning.
Chuck PalahniukYou may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
Michelle ObamaOne loves to possess arms though they hope never to have occasion for them.
Thomas JeffersonIt is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
Gertrude SteinBill Gates and I kind of cooked it up together. We hope we could get a school program someplace where the kids were taught the game and... develop a lot of competition between schools.
Warren BuffettI hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
John F. KennedyLet's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours which we love so much will find dignity and greatness and peace again.
Noel CowardI 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.
Rene DescartesIf the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.
Dwight D. EisenhowerThat we have come as far as we have in forty years [the 1930s to the 1970s] is hopeful though I believe it is more through the fact that Hitler's excesses made racism poisonous to any humane individual than through our own virtue. That we have much farther to go is incontestable.
Isaac AsimovLord make me an instrument of your peace, where there is hatred let me sow love, where there is injury pardon, where there is doubt faith, where there is despair hope, where there is darkness light, and where there is sadness joy.
Francis of AssisiThe ninety and nine are with dreams content but the hope of the world made new is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
Edgar Allan PoeMan being reasonable must get drunk, The best of life is but intoxication, Glory the grape, love gold - in these are sunk - The hopes of all men and of every nation.
Lord ByronGeorgia was a great race last year and very tough in terms of its route ... I hope to defend there, although I think it will be tougher this year.
Lance ArmstrongAs soon / Seek roses in December - ice in June, / Hope constancy in wind or corn in chaff, / Believe a woman or an epitaph / Or any other thing that's false before / You trust in critics.
Lord ByronThe only guide to man is his conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield however the fates may play we march always in the ranks of honor.
Winston Churchill