Hoping Against Hope Quotes

#1. The liar looks up toward it, hoping against hope that the voices in his head have told him the truth.

Aleksandar Hemon

#2. I wore a groove in the kitchen floor with endless trips to the fridge, hoping against hope that I had somehow missed a plateful of cold sausages on the previous 4,000 excursions. Then, for no obvious reason, I decided to buy a footstool.

Jeremy Clarkson

#3. I can't imagine how they must have felt, coming up here in their car and hoping against hope that when they got to the morgue, it would turn out to be someone else's well-loved child.

Stephen King

#4. She doesn't know I cry for the changing times. That just as I reread favourite books, some small part of me hoping for a different ending, I find myself hoping against hope that the war will never come. That this time, somehow, it will leave us be.

Kate Morton

#5. I was hoping against hope he'd refill his Prozac so we could be in love again, but, sadly, that never happened.

Piper Faust

#6. I don't find imitating other people's music easy at all. I remember being fifth in line for a Rolling Stones tour, early '90s, when Bill Wyman left, and I was hoping against hope that I wouldn't get the call to audition. I wouldn't be able to play a Stones song if you put a gun to my head.

Peter Hook

#7. I rush to her side and touch her cold skin, hoping against hope for a pulse.

Steven Herrick

#8. In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. You had to write it, and he had to play it, and I'm just so grateful I got to see it.

Jess Walter

#11. We made history when President Obama appointed Sonia Sotomayor, a proud Latina, the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice. And as the President likes to say, 'Every single one of them wasn't just the best Latino for the job, but the best person for the job.'

Charlie Gonzalez

#12. True Courage is when you are afraid of something but go through with it anyway

Victor Castelo

#13. No man ever did or can do a great work alone.

Elbert Hubbard

#14. The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

Pablo Casals

#15. Well, you know how it feels if you begin hoping for something that you want desperately badly; you almost fight against the hope because it is too good to be true; you've been disappointed so often before.

C.S. Lewis

#16. Men change their rulers willingly, hoping to better themselves, and this hope induces them to take up arms against him who rules, wherein they are deceived because they afterward find by experience they have gone from bad to worse.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#17. Artists who write songs ... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.

Terri Clark

#18. I was studying my 'Bold and Beautiful' script the other day, lying in a hammock, when one of my Siberian tigers walked up and grabbed it out of my hand - she wanted to play. See - teeth marks!

Tippi Hedren

#19. Even should we find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever. - Henry Van Dyke

William Paul Young

#20. for men change their rulers willingly, hoping to better themselves, and this hope induces them to take up arms against him who rules: wherein they are deceived, because they afterwards find by experience they have gone from bad to worse. This

Niccolo Machiavelli

#21. Drink deeply from good books.

John Wooden

#22. I fully recognize and appreciate the many substantial contributions of black Americans and other minorities to the creation and preservation and development of our great nation.

Strom Thurmond

#23. At a time when U.S. jobs are heading overseas at a record pace, and amidst increased sanctions on our manufacturers and producers from other countries, it's imperative that we do all we can to provide our businesses a climate to operate successfully.

Blanche Lincoln

#24. Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further.

Patrick McHenry

#25. I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.

Matsuo Basho