Hopeful Quotes - Page 6

• Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do.

  Melody Beattie

  Hope, Sadness, Trying

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• As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.

  Eddie Vedder

  Thinking, Years, Frustrated

  "Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam" by Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. November 06, 2002.

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• Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all self-dependence is vain. It is only by connecting with Jesus through faith that the sinner becomes a hopeful, believing child of God.

  Ellen G. White

  Jesus, Children, Believe

  Ellen G. White (2014). “Signs of the Times Articles - Book I of III”, p.55, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. The chip on my shoulder could sink the QE2. I've got an attitude problem and nobody better get in my way...I'm in a bad mood and the whole stupid little world is gonna pay!

  John Waters

  Attitude, Nice, Stupid

  John Waters (2007). “Crackpot: The Obsessions of”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on. But it was night, it stayed night. Night was striding across nothingness with the whole round world in his hands . . . They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against cruel walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Wall, Eye, Dark

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• Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.

  Nick Hornby

  Way, Sentimental, Feels

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.74, Penguin

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• Still, there was also was something reassuring about working for Commercial, almost hopeful. Like things that were lost could be found again. As we drove away, I always tried to imagine what it would be like to open your door to find something you had given up on.

  Sarah Dessen

  Doors, Would Be, Imagine

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.27, Penguin

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• I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Believe, Soul, Trying

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• But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he was not therefore lord of the person or property of others. On this subject they are gaining daily in the opinions of nations, and hopeful advances are making towards their re- establishment on an equal footing with the other colors of the human family.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Color, Understanding

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.219, Rowman & Littlefield

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• There's a way to accomplish the separation of church and state and at the same time accomplish the social objective of having America become a hopeful place and loving place.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, America, Church

  "Bush Renews Faith-Based Agenda Push". www.foxnews.com. June 01, 2004.

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• Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Confidence, Disposition, Mark

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• He's solid. "You're fractured." He's hopeful. "You're hopeless." He's always there. "You're half there." He's faithful. "You're so not." He's giving. "You're afraid to give." He's honest. "You lie all the time." He's loving. "You don't know how to love.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Lying, Giving, Loving You

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• The picture of me just after I’d found out Aspen was saving up to marry me. I looked radiant, hopeful, beautiful. I looked like I was in love. And some idiot thought that love was for Prince Maxon.

  Kiera Cass

  Beautiful, Saving Up, Aspens

  Kiera Cass (2015). “The Selection Series 4-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir”, p.28, HarperCollins

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• In those days, Christmas still retained a certain aura of magic and mystery. The powdery light of winter, the hopeful expressions of people who lived among shadows and silence, lent that setting a slight air of promise in which at least children and those who had learned the art of forgetting could still believe.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Art, Children, Believe

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• No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death.

  Dave Eggers

  Men, Balance, Creation

  Dave Eggers (2011). “You Shall Know Our Velocity”, p.263, Penguin UK

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• Every time I mention her, Magnus says, "Are you two getting along?" in raised, hopeful tones, like we're endangered pandas who need to make a baby.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Baby, Two, Needs

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• People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.

  Michael Robotham

  Hard Work, Thinking, People

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• Any chance of getting something sweet to go with my coffee?” [Finn] asked in a hopeful voice. I arched an eyebrow at him. “You mean all those pieces of strawberry pie that you ate for lunch weren't enough?” “I’m a growing boy,” Finn said in a sincere tone. “I need my vitamins.” Bria snorted. “The only thing that’s growing on you, Lane, is your ego.” Finn sidled up to my sister and gave her a dazzling smile. “Well, other things of mine also tend to swell up in your presence, detective.

  Jennifer Estep

  Sweet, Coffee, Mean

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• When "Here Comes the Sun" started, what happened? No, the sun didn't come out, but Mom opened up like the sun breaking through the clouds. You know how in the first few notes of that song, there's something about George's guitar that's just so hopeful? It was like when Mom sang, she was full of hope, too. She even got the irregular clapping right during the guitar solo. When the song was over, she paused. "Oh Bee," she said. "This song reminds me of you." She had tears in her eyes.

  Maria Semple

  Mom, Song, Eye

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• America, I don't think you can change history." All the same, his expression looked hopeful. "Sure we can. Besides, who'd ever know about it but you and me?

  Kiera Cass

  Thinking, Expression, America

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• Love made her patient. It made her hopeful.

  Maya Banks

  Patient, Made

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• The melody rolled over her, as cool and sweet as water, as hopeful and lovely as sunrise.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sweet, Water, Sunrise

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• Well. That's helpful. We'll put an APB out on the Gingerbread Man. I'm not hopeful it'll do us much good, though. Word on the street is you can't catch him.

  Joe Hill

  Men, Gingerbread, Helpful

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• I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Coincidence, Falcon

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci" translated by Jean Paul Richter, 1888.

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• I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Hope, Wisdom, Fear

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.49, Cambridge University Press

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