But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence the least touch of truth rubs it off and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

Hope begins in the dark the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

If you start in the pit of despair with these profane awful things even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark awful beginning.

Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on a mission to tell parents that there is a way.

When things are bad we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly not only as to the things which I have explained but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

People crushed by laws have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

I would describe myself as emotional and highly strung. If something upsets me it really upsets me. If something makes me angry I get really angry. But it's all very upfront. I can't hide it. I'm also loyal and I hope I'm fun.

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.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement not a hope not a wish but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.

I wish I could know everything ever like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.

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

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

I said to my soul be still and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

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.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

Learn from yesterday live for today hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.