Hopeful Quotes - Page 10

• Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I was happy. I was sad. I was in love. I was afraid. I was hopeful. I had an idea and I had a good purpose and that's why I made works of art.

  Felix Gonzalez-Torres

  Art, Writing, Ideas

  Félix González-Torres, Tim Rollins, Susan Cahan, Jan Avgikos (1993). “Felix Gonzalez-Torres”, A R T Pr

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• And all of you, all your lives, should be telling those of us in the media leadership positions to tell the whole truth and calling us to complain when we don't. Break this know-nothing pact now and you will have taken as mighty a step as you can as an individual to help see to it that we as a nation move together toward a lively, hopeful, confident, and all-embracing future.

  Geneva Overholser

  Moving, Taken, Media

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• Most of the criticism I get is that I am too positive and too hopeful... in my words, I don't beat people down enough.

  Joel Osteen

  People, Criticism, Enough

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• Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social intelligence.

  William H. Hastie

  Planning, Social, Future Plans

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• It is not the dignitaries who are the real cause of hope, however. What is an enormously refreshing and hopeful sign is to see the young people who make up the membership of the Federalist Society. Earnest, intelligent, and unpretentious, these are the young men and women of whom any nation and any age could be proud.

  Thomas Sowell

  Real, Men, Intelligent

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• I am a very hopeful person.

  Jessica Capshaw

  Persons

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• Of all human activities, apart from the procreation of children, gardening is the most optimistic and hopeful. The gardener is by definition one who plans for and believes and trusts in a future, whether in the short or the longer term.

  Susan Hill

  Children, Believe, Optimistic

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• The '50s was a pretty wonderful time for people, it was hopeful.

  Chris Isaak

  People, Wonderful, Wonderful Times

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• Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have investigated the background of a critic of Scientology, we have found crimes for which that person or group could be imprisoned under existing law. We do not find critics of Scientology who do not have criminal pasts.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Past, Law, Ideas

  "Critics of Scientology". Scientology Bulletin, suppressiveperson.org. November 05, 1967.

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• Hope and fear are inseparable.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hope, Expectations, Inseparable

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• I actually feel pretty inspired and hopeful by the fact that protests are becoming the norm now. They're less part of fringe society and more a part of mainstream society. That's exciting. There is no fringe anymore. We should all be included.

  Nelly Furtado

  Mainstream Society, Facts, Becoming

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I don't think that I am hopeful because I have some data that you don't, that I am going to share with you and going to convince you on that basis.

  Jonathon Keats

  Thinking, Data, Share

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm certainly dismayed by what I'm seeing now. There's a lot of ugliness of a kind I've never seen in my lifetime, or heard in my lifetime. But, look, I'm a romantic. I'm hopeful.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Looks, Kind, Lifetime

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have failed at unscripted television for five years now, so I am hopeful I can break that trend and get a good unscripted show on the air.

  Bradley Fuller

  Air, Years, Television

  Source: variety.com

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• Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.

  Anne Carson

  Different, World, Made

  Source: www.npr.org

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• India is a huge democracy. Prime Minister [Narendra] Modi has ambitions to try to fix the infrastructure, the rules, taxes, education, and to lift up the Indian people. And we're hopeful that that's going to create positive momentum.

  Jamie Dimon

  Ambition, People, Trying

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• What a pleasure to hear Michael Savage backtalk to Hillary [Clinton]. You know, there is such hypocrisy with her. I didn't start out as a Clinton basher; I started out hopeful years ago. What she's doing here is merely damage control because her drugs have come under criticism.

  Peter Breggin

  Damage Control, Years, Hypocrisy

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• Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you can't be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing. So while I'm not optimistic, I'm always very hopeful.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Heart, Optimistic, Independent

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• The American movement, Tea Party, whatever you want to call it, I think that is a very hopeful moment for the country and, I know, we really are the community organizers, are we not?

  Laura Ingraham

  Country, Party, Thinking

  Source: www.glennbeck.com

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• But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece o time we call today.

  Suzanne Collins

  Pieces, Awful, Today

  Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.234, Scholastic Inc.

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• One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Positive, Fun, Cynical

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• I'll just be your brother from now on." he said, looking at her with a hopeful expectation that she would be pleased, which made her want to scream that he was smashing her heart into pieces and he had to stop. "That's what you wanted, isn't it?" It took her a long time to answer, and when she did, her own voice sounded like an echo, coming from very far away. "Yes," she said, and she heard the rush of waves in her ears and her eyes stung as if from sand or salt spray. "That's what I wanted.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Heart, Eye

  Cassandra Clare (2008). “City of Ashes”, p.451, Simon and Schuster

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• The Republican leadership is quite hopeful at this time that they will have wide latitude. [Donald] Trump is a big visionary guy, not a detail guy, obviously. They are preparing to charge ahead with a Republican, a conservative agenda that Paul Ryan talked about a lot on the campaign trail.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Guy, Details, Campaigns

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I am very hopeful that there is a solution to the Israeli/Palestinian injustice.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Injustice, Palestinian, Israeli

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• instead i head to the computer and it's like i turn into a little girl who's just seen her first rainbow. i get all giddy and nervous and hopeful and despairing and i tell myself not to look obsessively at my buddy list, but it might as well be projected onto the insides of my eyelids. at 8:05 his name pops up, and i start to count. i only get to twelve before his IM pops up.

  David Levithan

  Girl, Names, Rainbow

  David Levithan (2015). “Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story”, p.156, Penguin

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