Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

Be hopeful. Be optimistic. Never lose that sense of hope.

You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when it's gone, you have to look forward. You have to get in the van and keep driving on.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

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.

Naming me 'Twinkle' was a foolproof way of making sure that I would get teased throughout my life, have immigration officers at various airports stare at my passport and shake with hysterical laughter, and strangers stalk me with WhatsApp messages like, 'Twinkle, Twinkle, little star, I hope you get hit by a car!'

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

I hope what I do and what I just did inspires people around the world to reach for the skies.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.

Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.

They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.

Charity can be the outward expression of faith and hope.

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.

I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.

When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!

I am very much looking forward to new adventures - including, I hope, Broadway - sooner rather than later.

As you get older, it's good to open up and acknowledge that everybody has their scary moments, their negative moments. And in order to move on and find comfort and hope, you have to stop running from the darkness and face it. And when you face it, it's not that scary at all, and sometimes it actually turns around and runs away.

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.

One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

Comebacks don't seem likely when your back is up against the wall and your hope is depleted. But if you will stay the course, you will discover God's power to reverse the irreversible in your life.

I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.

To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

To confront criminals, we need to finish with corruption. If we don't do this, there is no hope.

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

It just goes to show, if you remain focused and you have a dream and you have a desire to do something, then no matter what gets in your way, you can never lose hope. It's possible.

Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine.

Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.

I hope people remember me for the kind of person that I am, not because of what I do.