Hoping For The Best Quotes - Page 4

• If you are anticipating the worst while hoping for the best, you will get the worst. The things that happen to you are in direct accordance with the things wherein you place your faith. Believe you are licked - and you are.

  Harold Sherman

  Believe, Worst, Happens

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• When it turned on the Jew, Christianity and European civilization turned on the incarnation - albeit an incarnation often wayward and unaware - of its own best hopes.

  George Steiner

  Civilization, Christianity, Jew

  George Steiner (1974). “In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture”, p.45, Yale University Press

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• It is not as mirrors reflect us but, rather, as our dreams do, that movies most truly reveal the times. If the dreams we have been dreaming provide a sad picture of us, it should be remembered that - like that first book of Dante's Comedy - they show forth only one region of the psyche. Through them we can read with a peculiar accuracy the fears and confusions that assail us - we can read, in caricature, the Hell in which we are bound. But we cannot read the best hopes of the time.

  Barbara Deming

  Movie, Dream, Book

  Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

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• I have been able to hope for the best, expect the worst, and take what comes along. If there has been one fundamental reason for my success, this is it.

  Gene Sarazen

  Golf, Fundamentals, Able

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• Ive done a lot of shows that didnt do well. You have to go in with a 50-50 take on it. If it goes well, fantastic. Hope for the best and plan for the worst.

  Amanda Righetti

  Done, Fantastic, Worst

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• We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us two centuries ago in that little hall of Philadelphia. In the days following World War II, when the economic strength and power of America was all that stood between the world and the return to the dark ages, Pope Pius XII said, 'The American people have a great genius for splendid and unselfish actions. Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind.' We are indeed, and we are today, the last best hope of man on earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Dark, Destiny

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• The United Nations is the best hope to spare humanity from the barbarity of war, from the senseless death, destruction and dislocation it brings about.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  War, Humanity, Destruction

  "Rights expert urges the UN General Assembly to adopt a more decisive role in peace-making (For International Day of Peace, Saturday 21 September 2013)". dezayasalfred.wordpress.com. September 21, 2013.

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• Once we were Programmers. Maybe our last best hope is a movie.

  Erik Naggum

  Lasts, Programmers

  "PART TWO: winning industrial-use of lisp". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. June 19, 2002.

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• They [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Lying, Difficult, Temporary

  "Nation-Building Lite" by Michael Ignatieff, www.nytimes.com. July 28, 2002.

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• Sometimes the most interesting visual phenomena occur when you least expect it. Other times, you think youre getting something amazing and the photographs turn out to be boring and predictable. So I think thats why, a long time ago, I consciously tried to let go of artists angst, and instead just hope for the best and enjoy it. I love the journey as much as the destination. If I wasnt a photographer, Id still be a traveler.

  Michael Kenna

  Letting Go, Artist, Journey

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• When you see a threat, you just can't hope for the best in this day and age, where terrorists are capable of inflicting damage on the homeland.

  George W. Bush

  Age, Threat, Terrorist

  Speech at a Georgia rally, www.nytimes.com. October 31, 2006.

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• ...he who always hopes for the best becomes old, deceived by life, and he who is always prepared for the worst becomes old prematurely; but he who has faith, retains eternal youth.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Have Faith, Youth, Worst

  Soren Kierkegaard (2005). “Fear and Trembling”, p.21, Penguin UK

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• I can't please everybody and I don't try to. If I can please myself that's enough. For the rest, I just hope for the best.

  Todd Solondz

  Trying, Enough, Please

  Source: collider.com

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• If you are in a remote desert island, let your best hope be your own efforts to build a ship instead of waiting for a ship to appear among the fogs!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Islands, Fog, Effort

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• Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Successful, Government, Energy

  First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1801

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• I would love to get to a point where people do trust the police and the police trust the citizens, and there is a harmonious way of living. It's rough out there. I've seen it. I've been part of it. I'm hoping for the best.

  Cedric Yarbrough

  People, Police, Citizens

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• The downstream effects are unknown. Do your best and hope for the best. If you're improving the world-however you define that-consider your job well done.

  Tim Ferriss

  Jobs, Done, World

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• Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Way, Found, Intensity

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.455, Routledge

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• We're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. Just because natural selection created us doesn't mean we have to slavishly follow its peculiar agenda. (If anything, we might be tempted to spite it for all the ridiculous baggage it's saddled us with.)

  Robert Wright

  Mean, Trying, Peculiar

  "The Moral Animal". Book by Robert Wright, www.wired.com. 1994.

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• The God-honest truth is that Jeff and I just do what we do. You have no control. We didn't have control last year, or the year before either, or the year before that. We can only do what we do, which is to make the show that we love, continue to follow the path for the stories that we want to tell, tell great and compelling stories, week-to-week, that interest our fans, and really hope for the best.

  J.H. Wyman

  Years, Fans, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• What Bannon and Trump have presented us with is an idea of America that's not been the traditional idea, not the Walt Whitman idea, not the George Washington, Abraham Lincoln idea, which is one of welcoming because we're the last, best hope of Earth.

  David Brooks

  Ideas, America, Earth

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Just put your best foot forward and hope for the best. You also have to acknowledge that you're going to make mistakes.

  Damon Lindelof

  Mistake, Feet, Acknowledge

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• I think we have every reason to hope for the best but expect and prepare for the worst.

  Van Jones

  Thinking, Reason, Worst

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• So to Hillary Clinton, Liz Cheney, Christine Quinn, Susana Martinez, Meg Whitman, Sheryl Sandberg, Carly Fiorina and every other woman out there who has ever felt more like a professional juggler than a politician, you are our best hope! Run sister, run.

  Nicolle Wallace

  Running, Meg, Liz

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• I would not lose so great an honor
  As one man more methinks would share with me
  For the best hope I have.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Honor, Fame

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, John Payne Collier, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3”, p.189

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