America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life – but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty. – Chris Van Hollen
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love. – Dean Koontz
If the sensitive washout has no taste for extreme gestures, total self-destruction, then his hope for singularity rests in his voice. Tone is everything. – Darryl Pinckney
I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again. – Donald E. Westlake
Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people’s participation and E for equality. – Narendra Modi
The President’s speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this. – Daniel Inouye
I’m really happy here. I think anyone who knows me well, and the fans too I hope, they know that I love the area, and the bond that I’ve had with the fans has been fantastic. – Frank Lampard
But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms. – Dan Simmons
Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed. – Edwidge Danticat
Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books have remained a dark region in the universe of information. We want books to be as accessible and searchable as the Web. On the other hand, we still want them to be books. – Gary Wolf
You know, people always ask me how I describe my music. First of all I tell them that’s their job and then that also one day I hope to have things referred to as Martha Wainwright -esque. – Martha Wainwright
If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clear: One does not deal with terrorists; one does not bargain with terrorists; one kills terrorists. – Meir Kahane
The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him. – The Bible Lamentations 3:25
One shouldn’t write one’s own epitaph. I hope people will remember me as one who did her best – and who wasn’t an anachronism. – Margrethe II of Denmark
The success of this album is very much in question. Who knows where it’s going to go? My being a Spice Girl is no guarantee of anything, although I hope it’ll benefit the sales. – Melanie Chisholm
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. – Epicurus
I hope my kids can experience the seasons and a climate that’s sustainable. The idea that things are going to be so very different for them is slightly scary. – David Harewood
If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets – without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain – who average nearly $24 million a year in income – ‘next year.’ – Eric Alterman
I hope I give girls an opportunity to realize that they can swim and go to school at the same time. It’s not to be given up once they get out of high school. They can continue doing it for the rest of their lives. – Debbie Meyer
A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it’s not that hope is going to save you. – Elizabeth Edwards
A lot of designers still have nostalgia for the past. As for the furniture in the future, I hope they use less of real wood. Conservation in wood is necessary. – Elsa Peretti
I still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be a monologue rather than a conversation. And hope that their voice can be heard as that past turns into a future. – Eavan Boland
In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live. – Fanny Kemble
In my books and in romance as a genre, there is a positive, uplifting feeling that leaves the reader with a sense of encouragement and hope for a brighter future – or a brighter present. – Debbie Macomber
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all. – Emily Dickinson
