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- Nov 07, 2020
Hope Quotes
Small reasons to keep hoping.
This page includes a musician's description of feeling something bigger than ownership through sound, and an education advocate's belief that lasting change comes through people carrying an idea forward. For devotional reading, see Prayers.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My philosophy has always been that I hope I have a good enough day to give me another one, I hope that I have a good enough year to give me another year. I know that's cliched, but it's the truth in how I approach my career.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time, I felt that was actually the best I could ever hope for - to pretend to be a good person - because I was quite the opposite.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man's entitled to hope.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write best when I sort of collide myself with another man. So I think, I hope, that a combination of me and Stieg Larsson will create something good.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe it's the spy novelist in me looking for a future plot, but I hope the U.S. and its allies are thinking how to operate 'unconventionally' in Iraq and Syria in ways that undermine the Islamic State.
- American Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, the disruption of the Internet can be blamed for the destruction of the business model that once made journalism a thriving, well-paying enterprise, but it has also created an array of new tools for reporting. Somebody will eventually figure out how to make online newspapers profitable - I hope.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humanity has at least a dim, and growing, cognisance of the effects of its presence on this planet. The possibility that we might integrate that awareness into how we interface with the Earth system is one that should give us hope.
- Destiny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of the point of SETI has always been a search for answers about our own cosmic potential and destiny. If 'they' are out there, it means that there may be hope for us.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020