Hoping For The Best Quotes - Page 4

• Nobody has to do anything wrong to end up living a life that feels like it’s not their own, all they have to do is take a step back, and hope for the best.

  Craig Stone

  Steps, Ends, Feels

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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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• 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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• I'd like to see stability and a unified Iraq. A young democracy will provide the stability we look for. I will tell you that if we just isolate ourselves from the Middle East and hope for the best, we will not address the conditions that had led young suiciders to get on airplanes to come and attack Amerika in the first place.

  George W. Bush

  Airplane, Democracy, Stability

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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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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• 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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• Hope for the best, get ready for the worst, and then take what God chooses to send.

  Matthew Henry

  Advice, Worst, Ready

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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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• Writing your own jokes, you just kind of keep working on something until you think it might work, and then you try it out and hope for the best.

  Aziz Ansari

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

  "Aziz Ansari Interview". Interview with Jessica Hundley, www.askmen.com.

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• Once I prophesied that this generation of Americans had a rendezvous with destiny. That prophecy now comes true. To us much is given; more is expected. This generation will nobly save or mainly lose the last best hope of earth. The way is plain, peaceful, generous just. A way, which if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Destiny, Forever, Peaceful

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• I wanted to be involved in music and I felt I needed to get in quick. I didn't want to spend four years in college and then hope for the best. I gave myself a year, which is why I kept pushing people for a chance. I literally felt my whole life was in the balance. Music was my life, and I was scared of having time pass by and missing my chance.

  Guy Oseary

  College, Years, People

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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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• You don't do any show to be celebrated. In fact, you don't do any show thinking what's going to happen in the end. You immerse yourself in a room full of talent and a room full of designers and you hope for the best.

  Susan Stroman

  Thinking, Rooms, Facts

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Number one, we need to get in shape, number two we need to shoot, number three, we need to learn self-defense, and number four, we need to study small-unit tactics... If you do not have 5,000 rounds of .223, 5,000 rounds of .22 and 1,000 rounds of handgun ammo, as a MINIMUM, you're wrong. We need to train our families how to shoot as well. We need to get food. We need to have a year's supply of food, two years supply of seeds, we need to have a year's supply of sundry items. That's what it means to be an American. We prepare for the worst but hope for the best.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Mean, Years

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• Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada?

  Sarah Vowell

  America, What If, Earth

  Sarah Vowell (2008). “The Wordy Shipmates”, p.52, Penguin

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• The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.

  Kenneth Patchen

  People, Leaving, Enough

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• Hope for the best and make peace with the rest.

  Noah

  Making Peace

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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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• 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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• Each must act as he thinks best; and if he is wrong, so much the worse for him. We stand on a mountain pass in the midst of whirling snow and blinding mist through which we get glimpses now and then of paths which may be deceptive. If we stand still we shall be frozen to death. If we take the wrong road we shall be dashed to pieces. We do not certainly know whether there is any right one. What must we do? Be strong and of a good courage. Act for the best, hope for the best, and take what comes. . . . If death ends all, we cannot meet death better.

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Strong, Thinking, Snow

  Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1874). “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, p.353

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• Say what you mean, be who you are, and hope for the best.

  Justin Rogers

  Life, Mean, Be Who You Are

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• Pickett excused himself, watchful of Longstreet. Pickett was always saying something to irritate somebody, and he rarely knew why, so his method was simply to apologize in general from time to time and let people know he meant well and then to shove off and hope for the best. He apologized and departed, curls ajiggle.

  Michael Shaara

  War, People, Departed

  Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.458, Ballantine Books

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• I just keep working on things I like, and hope for the best. I hope people enjoy them.

  Michael Shannon

  People, Enjoy

  "Michael Shannon Talks BOARDWALK EMPIRE, MAN OF STEEL, and Future Projects" by Christina Radish, collider.com. October 31, 2011.

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• For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.

  Ferdinand Mount

  America, People, Lasts

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