- Myself
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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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
So long as the Oregon question is left open, Mexico will calculate the chances of a rupture between us and Great Britain, in the event of which she would be prepared to make common cause against us. But when an end is put to any such hope, she will speedily settle her difference with us.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic.
- Fishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the extent he is willing to do this, we are ready to work with him.
- Democratic Leaders
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- Nov 07, 2020
House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust.
- Some
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
- Communism
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is best to hope for and what everyone is working towards is to elevate the quality of women's sport and to bring it to a level where it is seen as something that is very entertaining, something to be admired, to be looked up to, to put it in that level playing field as a product to be sold equal to the men.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been working on new Slipknot material since the end of the 'All Hope Is Gone' tour cycle, but I ended up with so much stuff, I had to take a step back and stop working on it.
- Cooking
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- Nov 07, 2020