Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.

I now talk to different cultures, and I hope that I can bridge those gaps and differences between us. It's an adventure, a dream... I feel like I'm on an anthropological mission.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'

In tough times, we all hope for knights in shining armor, or the cavalry, to show up and effect change.

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope.

I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.

I don't know whether your heart ever necessarily changes, but time changes the way that you perceive the world. And you just hope it gives you more empathy and all those other things.

Being a founder is about being so driven to distraction by the world that you want to put something new in it. It's an act of creation, of irreverence, of defiance, of hope, and arguably one of narcissism.

Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

When I was 13, I entered the seminary in the hope of becoming a priest. But I often found myself helping the nuns in the kitchen and thus discovered my passion for cooking. I began to cultivate my skills and aspirations at the age of 15, when I embarked on my first apprenticeship.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

Every place has a story - or a thousand stories. Findery brings places to life, be they where you stand or where you hope to go.

I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

I'm a very contented, peaceful man. I made mistakes, yes, but I accepted them, and, I hope, graciously.

I'm conflicted about the lyric tattoo thing. I feel like that's a lifetime decision, and I always feel like, 'I hope you don't regret this a couple years from now when you get tired of that song.'

Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.

I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I've enjoyed doing the games. I don't ever go to the park where I don't have a good day. I don't like losing. But I don't think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don't think once.

Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them. The king will not have the same weaknesses as his grandfather. I hope that he will have no favorites; but I am afraid that he is too mild and too easy. You may depend upon it that I will not draw the king into any great expenses.

I'm clearly doing what I want. I hope kids can see my act and feel like they can be slightly more comfortable in their own skin because I'm being so ridiculously comfortable in mine. I'm not that comfortable in my skin the moment I walk offstage. But I try to project that while I'm on it.

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.

I understand the atmosphere better than I ever did before. You feel the thermals while paragliding. You are in the clouds. Chasing a storm puts you in front of the cloud, not a book. I hope to learn as I do these things.

I hope we see more stories where the heroes are real heroes, real people that don't need weapons or super powers to change people's lives.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.

I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.

'Hope and change' has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.

I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble.

I hope people will say, 'Mr. Valentino, he did something for fashion, no?'

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new hope and a new responsibility for all.

Hope will never be silent.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.