“Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.”
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.
“Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.”
“Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.”
“I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.”
“We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.”
“Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.”
“Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.”
“When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities.”
“I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.”
“In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.”
“Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.”
“Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.”
“I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.”
“I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.”
“If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.”
“The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.”
“My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.”