“Well, 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.”
Hope is not naive — it is a strategy. These quotes explore optimism in the face of difficulty, the refusal to give up, and the quiet stubbornness of believing that tomorrow might be better than today, even when the evidence is thin.
“I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.”
“Well, 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.”
“A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.”
“The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen.”
“Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.”
“My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.”
“What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black.”
“People always ask me if I'm going to stop modeling because I have started an acting career. I hope to continue to model for years to come.”
“The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.”
“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.”
“I hope I have important things to say.”
“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.”
“All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?”
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”
“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.”
“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”