Top 100 Hope Not Quotes
#1. Would a dating service on the net be 'frowned upon' ... ? I hope not. But even if it is, don't let that stop you from notifying me via net mail if you start one.
Richard Stallman
#3. No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss and abundance. The abundance that has no guilt. The loss that has no fix. The simple tiredness that is not weary. The hope not built on blindness.
Aimee Bender
#5. Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.
Patrick Modiano
#6. I just had this feeling about you," she said. "Is that foolish?"
"I hope not.
Rainbow Rowell
#7. faith is not hope, not a mere expectation of future things, but a present receiving of that which is promised in a real and substantial way. It is accepting, not expecting.
A.B. Simpson
#8. Do I think a marriage with him would last? I have my doubts. There, I said it. But marraige is always a risk. And so what if it doesn't work? Would that make you absolutely unhappy for the rest of your life? I would hope not.
Amy Stolls
#9. Well, the problem I've had with all the interviews I've had in America - I had meetings with about nine labels - and they all say to me "Will your new songs fit in with what is popular and what is in the chart?" And I say "Good God, I hope not!
Steven Morrissey
#11. It's not like I'm going to run up and hug him."
His expression turned bland. "I'd sure hope not. I might get jealous."
"You'd get jealous if she hugged a tree," Archer tossed out.
"Maybe." Daemon coasted to a stop in a parking space behind the car. "I'm needy like that.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#12. Art should be a place of hope, not doubt. And your doubts rise from inexperience, which is not a dishonorable thing.
Stephen King
#13. Fight with realistic
hope, not to destroy
all the world's wrong,
but to renew its good.
Elizabeth Wein
#14. You don't really get to know people behind the scenes. One can assume that it's out there, but I have no idea at the end of the day. I hope not.
Mandy Moore
#15. I have followed my ear and my heart, which may be false. I hope not.
F. S Flint
#16. The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general sense of encouragement and heart-ease.
Charlotte Bronte
#17. You said he was a perfectly adequate lover."
"Perfectly adequate? I dont suppose I ever said that about you?" She only had to look and Logan and those rough hands to know he'd be a thoroughly, mind-blowingly, head-bangingly, DIRTY lover."
"I bloody hope not.
Amy Andrews
#18. She read a short report in The Times datelined Vienna and headed THE SERVIAN SCARE. She asked Bea if Russia would defend Serbia against the Austrians. "I hope not!" Bea said, alarmed. "I don't want my brother to go to war." Maud
Ken Follett
#19. Even while terminally ill, Paul was fully alive; despite physical collapse, he remained vigorous, open, full of hope not for an unlikely cure but for days that were full of purpose and meaning.
Paul Kalanithi
#20. Don't put off happiness you can have today. Tomorrow is a hope, not a promise
Debra Anastasia
#22. Is it weird that I feel so close to you even though you're hundreds of miles away and we've only met once? I hope not. I'm glad that you're in my life. ~Lila
Katie McGarry
#23. What the hell are you going here?" He clutched the bedsheet, holding it level with his neck.
"Isn't it obvious?"
"I hope not."
"I'm here to see the lavender nightshirt.
Tessa Dare
#24. As he journeyed alone toward the monster that is death, we could do nothing to help him, nor the others still alive; all the words of strength on our lips melted away, our love not great enough to bind them to life, and our hope not enough to will them to live.
Alfred Nestor
#26. Reader, did you ever hate? I hope not. I never did but once; and I trust I never shall again. Somebody has called it "the atmosphere of hell"; and I believe it is so.
Harriet Jacobs
#27. Nubs?" the doctor asked. "It's okay," Charlie said. "He's our dog. He isn't a person or anything." "I would hope not." "Sometimes he eats his own poop," Charlie explained.
Ania Ahlborn
#28. Did I just fall in love? I hope not. Maybe my body fell in love a little bit, it's shaking and wants a long hug. His name was Ketchup. I will always remember that name so I'm glad it's a pretty good one.
Dia Felix
#29. No matter what you may think about her politics or her record, Hillary Clinton understands that this is not reality television; this is reality. She understands the job of president. It involves finding solutions, not pointing fingers; and offering hope, not stoking fear.
Michael Bloomberg
#30. I don't think there's an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It's just that you're standing up.
Bill Nighy
#31. If it were in our national security to deploy to South Africa under apartheid, would we have found it acceptable or customary to segregate African American soldiers from other American soldiers, and say, 'It's just a cultural thing'? I don't think so. I would hope not.
Martha McSally
#32. I'll have got him out of my system." "I hope not." "Really?" "What would there be left of you, if you did?
Nick Hornby
#33. We aren't there yet,' said Bouvard.
Let's hope not,' said Pecuchet.
Gustave Flaubert
#34. My family isn't like yours," he says. "Well, I certainly hope not. We can't all be dreamers and crackpots, you know.
Lyla Payne
#35. William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir."
Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.
Terry Pratchett
#36. I would like to live a day in the life of an ant and hope not to get squashed.
Kiowa Gordon
#37. Clary smiled at him with a warmth she didn't feel.
"Sebastian says I can come with you."
Jace raised his eyebrows.
"Matching haircuts for everyone?"
"I hope not," said Sebastian. "I look terrible with curls.
Cassandra Clare
#38. Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.
Kevin Spacey
#39. Wow," I remarked to an older man who
had just turned away from a group. "That's
what I call a birthday cake. You think
someone's going to jump out of that thing?"
"Hope not," he said in a gravelly voice.
"They might catch fire from all the candles.
Lisa Kleypas
#40. The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
Barbara Kingsolver
#41. Will you never grow up?"
"I doubt it, and I certainly hope not.
David Eddings
#42. Myth: Vampires can read minds.
Truth: Geez, I hope not. But it would explain some things about my mom.
Kimberly Pauley
#43. Schroeder, do you think love is the answer to everything?"
"Boy, I hope not!
Charles M. Schulz
#44. Well they have to have something to wean Caluntians off Venusian moles. Seems humans are the best therapy, to consume that is. They say we are a bit gamey though. An acquired taste, one we hope not many acquire.
Neil Leckman
#45. Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.
C.V. Wedgwood
#46. wouldn't have called him Don. His mistress? Let's hope not.
John Pesta
#47. Next week, I should be back to my old self."
"I hope not." Dallas nudged me with his shoulder.
Veronica Blade
#48. Do you think I'll ever be better at this?" I wondered, mostly to myself. "That my heart might someday stop trying to jump out of my chest whenever you touch me?"
"I really hope not," he said, a bit smug.
Stephenie Meyer
#49. People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
Flannery O'Connor
#50. There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying.
Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do.
Amy Tan
#52. Well Mandira, I hope not. You see, I started both their careers. And as far as i can remember, I started yours too.
Shahrukh Khan
#53. Maybe when you're married, you'll have a better idea of what desperate lengths you'll go to ... for your sake,I hope not.
Lisa Kleypas
#54. Throw our your mean words, Mr. Freemantle. Art should be a place of hope, not doubt.
Stephen King
#55. The Lord wants us to be filled with hope-not just because it points us to a brighter tomorrow, but because it changes the quality of our lives.
Dwan J. Young
#56. Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill
#57. Thinking about the bacon - the potential of bacon - gives me hope. Not all is lost if bacon isn't.
Rick Yancey
#58. Are you sure were not dead?"
"I really fucking hope not.
Ann Brashares
#59. Despair is better treated with hope, not dope.
Richard Asher
#60. It seems [that] everybody wants to be a twenty-something except for many twenty-somethings themselves. All around, 'thirty is the new twenty' is starting to get a new reaction: 'God, I hope not.
Meg Jay
#61. What is that in his hand?"
"A cleaver. As in-"
"Butcher's knife."
"You got it."
"I hope not."
"He does not look happy."
"Are you sure it's a he?"
"I don't want to know.
Ridley Pearson
#62. Perhaps some people really are born unhappy. I surely hope not. Speaking for my sister and myself: We were born with the capacity and determination to be utterly happy all the time. Perhaps even in this we were freaks. Hi ho.
Kurt Vonnegut
#63. Don't judge me by a little thing like this. In little things, I am a little thing myself - I always was. But in great things, I hope not; I don't mean to boast, but I hope not!
Charles Dickens
#64. You'll pay," she said stonily. "You won't be like this by this time tomorrow."
"Bored and pissed off? God, I hope not.
MaryJanice Davidson
#66. So we're talking into death? (Alix)
Gods, I hope not. I don't have on the right boots for it. These are only good for a mild ass-whipping. (Devyn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#67. Are all our dates going to be like that?" said Perkins.
"I hope not", I replied with a smile, "but it was quite fun, wasn't it? I mean, it's not like we were killed or eaten or anything, right?"
"If your idea of a good date is not being killed and eaten, you'll never be disappointed.
Jasper Fforde
#68. I've learned of life this bitter truth
Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose,
But rather,
Build within thy own soul
Fortresses!
Georgia Douglas Johnson
#69. As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct.
Christina Ricci
#70. We don't have an address," I said, "but we do know where he works."
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Vee asked, eyes brightening briefly through the haze of chemical sedation.
"Based on past experience, I hope not.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#71. And so we gain hope - not from the darkness of our suffering, not from pat answers in books, but from the God who sees our suffering and shares our pain.
Eugene H. Peterson
#72. Doubt is the ally of hope, not its enemy, and together they made all the blessing he had.
Barry Unsworth
#73. Sometimes you don't lose hope, not because you are hopeful , but there is nothing else to hope for.
M.F. Moonzajer
#74. I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.
Louisa May Alcott
#75. Then I asked, "Do you lose concentration when a woman you want is in the room?"
"I hope not or tonight we're fucked.
Kristen Ashley
#76. He laid her hand on his jutting cock. "This beast is what I want to put inside you, princess. It will hurt you, I fear, and you'll never be the same."
She ran a finger along the length of him, then smiled softly. "I should hope not. How good can a seduction be if one ends up the same afterward?
Sabrina Jeffries
#77. Well.. Is that all you've got?.. I hope not..cuz you haven't finished entertaining me yet..
-Gaara to Rock Lee during the Chunin preliminary
Masashi Kishimoto
#78. We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?"
"I hope not," I say
Patrick Ness
#79. Some people are saying there's going to be a third World War. I hope not. I really think this is a time that people can start to mend things by negotiations, dealings. We know about dealings, don't we? We have brilliant lawyers. Why don't we have brilliant lawyers standing up and working for peace?
Yoko Ono
#80. In this deed is my hope, not in the mere timeless fact that God is love. I am saved not by the beautiful Trinitarian life of God but by the gory death of God. I am saved not by the touching of the three Persons in Heaven but by the touching of this love on the Cross to my life.
Peter Kreeft
#81. I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention.
Edward Blake
#82. If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.
John Linder
#83. Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not.
Stephen King
#84. Griff. I bet he's never met a gal like you before."
"I should hope not," she replied glibly, but heat filled her cheeks. "Nature couldn't possibly make two mistakes like me."
"You're not a mistake. Don't you ever think of yourself that way. You're exactly as you ought to be.
Kady Cross
#85. Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it's different, but because it's the same.
Bob Goff
#86. When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'
Rip Torn
#87. People always need hope." "Not always. Too much hope makes for a life full of loose ends. It's not nice to wake up every morning with a life full of loose ends." "So
David Machado
#88. Oh!' cried Neb, 'suppose it's jam!'
'I hope not,' replied the reporter.
Jules Verne
#90. 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
#91. I think I'm brave because I've made decisions based - I hope not entirely selfishly - on what I think is right for me to do next.
Maeve Binchy
#92. I have no idea whether I am completely sane. I don't think anybody is. I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world. I hope I don't hurt people. You hope not to hurt yourself too much, either. Maybe that's the definition of keeping yourself in check?
Keira Knightley
#93. Oh my son! My son!" von Helrung cried. Now it was his turn to crush my master to his chest. "William! Your father has come for you!"
"I hope not! My father has been dead over fifteen years, von Helrun.
Rick Yancey
#94. Though it pained me, I gave in. Why was it that I repeatedly succumbed to the first whisper of a promised maybe? How did the enticer, hope, always find my heart unguarded? There was no such thing as hope. Not for me. Why was it so hard to accept that?
Richelle E. Goodrich
#95. You're not a normal priest, are you?'
He gave her a smile that hit her like a slap to the face and a kiss on the mouth all at once.
'My God, I hope not.
Tiffany Reisz
#96. There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.
Daisaku Ikeda
#98. Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.
Vikram Seth
#99. I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
Barry Sonnenfeld
#100. So I have. Let me hold the baby, Scarlett. Oh, I know how to hold babies. I have many strange accomplishments. Well, he certainly looks like Frank. All except the whiskers, but give him time."
"I hope not. It's a girl.
Margaret Mitchell
