Hopeful Quotes - Page 7

• What I really believe is the only hopeful relation between our life and the whole of life is one of reverence and respect and of feeling at one with it. The other attitude which is the one our society is based on is devastating and it is killing the earth and it is killing us too.

  W. S. Merwin

  Attitude, Believe, Feelings

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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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• Something good was happening. My life was rising from the ashes, and the sight of it left me feeling something like hopeful.

  Katherine Center

  Sight, Feelings, Ashes

  Katherine Center (2007). “The Bright Side of Disaster: A Novel”, p.159, Ballantine Books

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• And it occurred to me that in this new millennial life of instant and ubiquitous connection, you don't in fact communicate so much as leave messages for one another, these odd improvisational performances, often sorry bits and samplings of ourselves that can't help but seem out of context. And then when you do finally reach someone, everyone's so out of practice or too hopeful or else embittered that you wonder if it would be better not to attempt contact at all.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Sorry, Practice, Connections

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• The hopeful part about that is when you do have that help, you will feel better. It still doesn't make this easy. Nothing makes this easy, but you can make better decisions.

  David Sheff

  Recovery, Feel Better, Decision

  "Clean: An Interview with David Sheff". Interview with Cathy Taughinbaugh, cathytaughinbaugh.com.

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• The Boston Globe: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival will surely go down in history as a mass event of great and positive significance in the life of the country ... That this many young people could assemble so peaceably and with such good humor in a mile-square area ... speaks volumes about their dedication to the ideal of respect for the dignity of the individual ... In a nation beset with a crescendo of violence, this is a vibrantly hopeful sign. If violence is infectious, so, happily, is nonviolence.

  Michael Lang

  Country, Art, Dedication

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• I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we're even alive at all.

  Lana Del Rey

  Trust No One, Alive, Want

  "'It's Electrifying': Lana Del Rey Opens Up About Love as She Poses in a Sheer Trenchcoat for Magazine Interview". www.dailymail.co.uk. January 25, 2012.

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• We have simply arrived too late in the history of the universe to see this primordial simplicity easily... But although the symmetries are hidden from us, we can sense that they are latent in nature, governing everything about us. That's the most exciting idea I know: that nature is much simpler than it looks. Nothing makes me more hopeful that our generation of human beings may actually hold the key to the universe in our hands - that perhaps in our lifetimes we may be able to tell why all of what we see in this immense universe of galaxies and particles is logically inevitable.

  Steven Weinberg

  Nature, Science, Keys

  "The Key to the Universe: A Report on the New Physics". Book by Nigel Calder, 1977.

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• Nothing in physics seems so hopeful to as the idea that it is possible for a theory to have a high degree of symmetry was hidden from us in everyday life. The physicist's task is to find this deeper symmetry.

  Steven Weinberg

  Science, Ideas, Everyday

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• Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

  Jim Wallis

  Nonsense, Process, Changed

  Twitter post from Apr 13, 2017

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• Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.

  Emil Brunner

  Positive

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• Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Confidence, Disposition, Mark

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