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• With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

  Studs Terkel

  People, Optimism, Despair

  Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Interview, www.pbs.org. December 19, 2003.

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• I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Thinking, Gdp, Generations

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• We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write.

  Neil Gaiman

  Growing Up, Kindness, Lying

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• An area of life that does not have hope is under a lie.

  Bill Johnson

  Lying, Doe, Areas

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• It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious life a great part passes without study. An author partakes of the common condition of humanity; he is born and married like another man; he has hopes and fears, expectations and disappointments, griefs and joys, and friends and enemies, like a courtier or a statesman; nor can I conceive why his affairs shuld not excite curiosity as much as the whisper of a drawing-room, or the factions of a camp.

  Samuel Johnson

  Disappointment, Grief, Drawing

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.453

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• It's not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my characters to have hope - and that's what I do with all my stories.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Character, Mr Right, Stories

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• I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way - someone who is a human being as well as an actress.

  Lauren Bacall

  Personality, Way, Actresses

  "From the archives: Screen legend Lauren Bacall expressed a desire to leave her past behind her in 1995 interview with The Vancouver Sun". The Vancouver Sun Interview, www.vancouversun.com. 1995.

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• Human beings have hope. Not matter how desperate things are, they convince themselves that they can change things for the better." - John Gregory (Clash of the Demons)

  Joseph Delaney

  Matter, Demon, Desperate

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• People have hope because they cannot see Death standing behind them.

  Tite Kubo

  People, Bleach, Behinds

  "Bleach". Manga series by Tite Kubo, August 20, 2001 – August 22, 2016.

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• You were supposed to have hope, right? You were supposed to respect its power and hold on. And so I did. I held, and held, and let hope fill me. But as the days went on, it seemed I could be holding for a long, long time. Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless

  Deb Caletti

  Powerful, Long, Useless

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Six Rules of Maybe”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• ...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.

  Lionel Shriver

  Life, Thinking, Attachment

  Lionel Shriver (2010). “We Need To Talk About Kevin”, p.167, Profile Books

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• I used to be ashamed And now I am proud. The world once was black And now it is bright. I used to walk head bent And now I stand up tall. I used to have dreams But now I have hope.

  Judith McNaught

  Dream, Black, World

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• Novels ought to have hope; at least, American novels ought to have hope. French novels don't need to. We mostly win wars, they lose them. Of course, they did hide more Jews than many other countries, and this is a form of winning.

  Anne Lamott

  Country, War, Winning

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.51, Anchor

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• Faith seems to grab people and not let go, but hope is a double-crosser. It can beat it on you anytime; it's your job to dig in your heels and hang on. Must be nice to have hope in your pocket, like loose change you could jingle through your fingers.

  Judy Blundell

  Letting Go, Jobs, Nice

  Judy Blundell (2011). “Strings Attached”, p.2, Scholastic Inc.

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• I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Dream, Growing Up, Thinking

  J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.930, e-artnow

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• Yet if we would know God and for other's sake tell what we know we must try to speak of his love. All Christians have tried but none has ever done it very well. I can no more do justice to that awesome and wonder-filled theme than a child can grasp a star. Still by reaching toward the star the child may call attention to it and even indicate the direction one must look to see it. So as I stretch my heart toward the high shining love of God someone who has not before known about it may be encouraged to look up and have hope.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Stars, Children

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• ***Three Conditions of Happiness*** If you have work to do If you have someone you love If You have hope Then You are Happy now!

  Immanuel Kant

  Three, Someone You Love, Ifs

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• Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope.

  Bram Stoker

  Heart, Men, Might

  Bram Stoker (2015). “Dracula: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.50, 谷月社

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• Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.

  Graham Greene

  Heart, Men, Practice

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Portable Graham Greene”

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• I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.

  Jack Kirby

  Character, People, Feels

  Interview with Leonard Pitts, Jr., kirbymuseum.org. 1986/7.

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• He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see through it I still think I can escape. I have hope. But it's all an illusion. A thick round wall of glass.

  John Fowles

  Wall, Thinking, Glasses

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• Having hope is hard; harder when you get older.

  Wendell Berry

  Harder, Hard

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• Paul says that as Christians we can rejoice even in tough times because we have hope and because we know that God is working in our lives.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Blessed, Tough Times

  Rick Warren (2008). “God's Power to Change Your Life”, p.27, Zondervan

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• Just having hope ain't going to cut it. You've got to have hope, passion and skills.

  Tim Reid

  Passion, Cutting, Skills

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• The triumph of the industrial arts will advance the cause of civilization more rapidly than its warmest advocates could have hoped, and contribute to the permanent prosperity and strength of the country far more than the most splendid victories of successful war.

  Charles Babbage

  Country, Art, War

  "The Exposition of 1851: Views Of The Industry, The Science, and the Government Of England". Book by Charles Babbage, 1851.

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