Top 100 Hoping For Quotes
#1. Stop hoping for a completion of anything in life ... Do what you love to do, what you are waiting to do, what you've been born to do, now.
David Deida
#2. Remember, waiting isn't just about what you are hoping for at the end of the wait, but also about what you will become as you wait.
Paul David Tripp
#4. The solution is to develop a tracking system that captures each customer's likes and dislikes, as well as what each customer personally values and is hoping for when doing business with you.
Leonardo Inghilleri
#5. It is no good thinking about how life will get better once you have a new television or a new job. You must stop hoping for change. You must simply be it.
Rachel Joyce
#6. If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones saying or doing it, we become mere political short-sellers, hoping for bad news because it's good for our ideological investment.
Kurt Andersen
#7. American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.
Dave Barry
#8. My parents were lured to America by the democracy here promised. In our family, freedom was a word to conjure by. Hoping for larger privileges for the growing family of children, they brought them to the New World, the world of many intellectual as well as material advantages.
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
#9. No one ever gives my their kindness without hoping for something in exchange.
Are they any different? Are they all the same? They all want to use you, use you, use you until they get what they want, and then they will toss you aside.
Marie Lu
#10. I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.
James F. Byrnes
#11. Journalists don't retire, writers don't retire. I'm still hoping for that other big story. There's always one just around the corner.
Phillip Knightley
#12. to a bench I had made for her a few years back. Fred followed, hoping for another handout. "You need to know that I wasn't offering charity, Jake," she said
Richard Houston
#13. On Holy Saturday I do my best to live in that place, that wax-crayon place of trust and waiting. Of accepting what I cannot know. Of mourning what needs to be mourned. Of accepting what needs to be accepted. Of hoping for what seems impossible.
Jerusalem Jackson Greer
#14. Go to the ball with me."
'Stars. Didn't you already ask me that?"
"I'm hoping for a more favorable answer this time and I seem to be getting more desperate by the minute.
"How charming"
"Please?
Marissa Meyer
#15. The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive panic and crash, driven by the insiders having exited but the sucker outsiders hanging on hoping for a revivial, but finally giving up in the final collapse.
Charles P. Kindleberger
#16. I carry condoms in my purse, even though I haven't had sex in a long time. I'm hoping for luck! And I carry them so I can give them to other people who might want or need them, or who might want to have a conversation.
Sharon Stone
#17. Morandi suggests we are all single in this world, hoping for independent repose. But our best opportunity for a community of excellence depends upon a collection of enlightened individuals.
Wayne Thiebaud
#18. It's too cold outside
For angels to fly
An angel will die
Covered in white
Closed eye
And hoping for a better life
This time, we'll fade out tonight
Straight down the line
Ed Sheeran
#19. Time grabs you by the scruff of your neck and drags you forward. You get over it, of course. Everyone was right about that. One mathematically insignificant day, you stop hoping for happiness and become actually happy.
Sloane Crosley
#20. If you forsake a path, it is because you were hoping for conviction from it. You seek conviction, not self-knowledge.
Idries Shah
#21. The great thing about television is that most things get resolved by the end of the episode. So I think a lot of people watch TV to see something of their real lives reflected on the screen, but also they're hoping for that happy ending.
Kali Hawk
#22. The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.
Albert Einstein
#23. Why? Were you hoping for something more exotic?"
My inner goddess pops her head above the parapet.
"Oh no. I've had enough exotic for one day."
Mr inner goddess pouts at me.
E.L. James
#24. Are you kidding? This is perfect! This is exactly what we've been hoping for! He has everything we need.
Okay, I'll admit. Turning it down does feel a little like kicking God in the balls.
Hannah Harrington
#25. So there'll be no guiding light for you and me We are not sailors lost out on the sea We were always headed toward eternity Hoping for a glimpse of Galilee
Emmylou Harris
#26. There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.
June Jordan
#27. I stare at the television as Belle bends over to feed a bird. Then I lean forward, hoping for a nice cleavage shot ...
I'm going to hell, aren't I?
I can't help it. I'm desperate. Frustrated.
Horny
Emma Chase
#28. ... she never had what she wanted till she had given up hoping for,' said Mrs. Meg.
Louisa May Alcott
#29. If you are anticipating the worst while hoping for the best, you will get the worst. The things that happen to you are in direct accordance with the things wherein you place your faith. Believe you are licked - and you are.
Harold Sherman
#30. Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.
Ned Rorem
#31. I'm hoping for a broadsword," Patrick said, crossing his fingers. "We can go all Game of Thrones on Arkansas." "I've always hated Arkansas," Ben considered. "We all do, Ben. We all hate Arkansas.
Clayton Smith
#32. I can't say I wasn't hoping for it, but I didn't see it coming.
Jessi Kirby
#33. Whether they'll write the story of my life as a tragedy or an epic fantasy ... I was wondering if it was going to be a kiss at the end, or sad music and a sweeping camera shot over the fields I once roamed freely. I'm hoping for the kiss, but expecting the sweeping camera shot.
Maggie Stiefvater
#34. I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.
Paul Auster
#35. Paris Hilton got 45 days in jail. A lot of people were upset about this - they were hoping for the death penalty.
Jay Leno
#36. There's the waiting for something you don't know is coming. You don't even know what it is exactly, but you're hoping for it. You're imagining and living your life for it. That's the kind of waiting that makes a fist in your heart.
Martine Murray
#37. You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired.
Robert Breault
#38. i hope you can find it in your heart to be proud of the woman i have become in spite of you. - still hoping for sugar instead of salt.
Amanda Lovelace
#39. There's time for laughing and there's time for crying
for hoping for despair for peace for longing
- a time for growing and a time for dying:
a night for silence and a day for singing
but more than all(as all your more than eyes
tell me)there is a time for timelessness
E. E. Cummings
#41. When you assemble animation teams the way you do a live-action film, you're often struggling a bit to get a cohesive team together, so if you have a team that works well together, you're hoping for another film so that you can refine the team.
Brad Bird
#42. Is there something in your spirit that keeps telling you it should be different: more interesting, more engaging, more creative, more profound? Does your prayer life feel like you're eating the same food over and over every day - mixing the same ingredients but hoping for a new, more enticing dish?
David Brazzeal
#43. You're always preparing yourself for the thing that is most likely to happen, instead of hoping for the thing that you most want to happen.
Emery Lord
#44. The cycle of abuse interspersed with occasional bouts of kindness keeps you stuck, waiting and hoping for the kindness to return. And it does, on occasion, only to be swept away.
Sylvain Reynard
#45. You wouldn't. You're an aberration," he said. "How do I know you won't kill us all anyway?" I said. "You're the one I need to feed to the fire," he said. "Drop the gun and you can save this girl." "Not terribly convincing," I said, stalling for time, hoping for that time to bring something.
Jeff Lindsay
#46. A wave of Time hangs motionless on this particular shore.
I notice a tree, arsenical grey in the light, or the slow
Wheel of the stars, the Great Bear glittering colder than snow,
And remember there was something else I was hoping for.
Theodore Roethke
#47. Hoping for something is not the same as expecting it.
Anne Rice
#48. As long as I ride motorcycles, which God willing is another 50 years, I'll always have Alvarez in my heart. I'm hoping for 10 seasons of Sons of Anarchy.
Emilio Rivera
#49. Remember that, so that next time you can just agree with whatever I say and we'll be fine. Though he didn't open his eyes, one corner of his mouth curled, ever so slightly. It was what I was hoping for. For a moment, the barriers had crumbled and we were all right again.
Julie Kagawa
#50. Hoping for the best, like hoping for a bat to obey your orders, almost always leads to disappointment.
Lemony Snicket
#51. Well, you didn't think I'd just roll over, did you?"
"Actually I was hoping for an on-all-fours sort of thing.
G.A. Aiken
#52. How's your love life?" I asked.
"What love life? You keep ruining it."
That was the answer I was hoping for. I even hoped it was true.
Marshall Thornton
#53. Too many times when I was a kid, I would put my hands together and squinch my eyes shut and I would devote fully to hoping for something
John Green
#54. It's nice to have a medal, but we were hoping for a gold.
Marta Karolyi
#55. I'm not out here looking for no garbage cans to curl up in. I'm looking for the same good dreams everybody else is hoping for, but I don't see where they are. Or maybe I see where they are, but I don't see how to get there.
Walter Dean Myers
#56. Pure and soft, the melody is entrancing. Haunting. I'm glued to my seat, waiting, hoping for the next enthralling sound. I'd close my eyes if I weren't afraid I'd miss a second of his performance.
Cassie Graham
#57. The delights of a thousand dreams await within,
Yet I stand rooted outside your window,
Trembling like a tamarind in the breeze.
Unable to move,
Unable to breathe,
Hoping for one flutter of your curtain.
~from Silk Dreams
Mia Marlowe
#58. There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#59. Have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.
Alice Walker
#60. The market is now factoring in that first-quarter earnings will likely be below consensus. And the reality is that economic growth is probably going to be between 3.5 percent and 4 percent, which is good but maybe not as strong as what some people were hoping for.
Subodh Kumar
#61. I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking my voice mail on pay phones, hoping for an audition.
Rainn Wilson
#62. We are never the heroes of our own stories, unless we are lying. If we choose to count ourselves among the brave, we write ourselves as the villains we are, hoping for redemption.
Suzanne Rindell
#63. Sometimes things work out, sometimes they don't. I never know how successful a movie is going to be - when you make a movie you're always hoping for the best.
Christopher Walken
#64. What you're hoping for about the concert is an overall collective experience that everyone has and that you share with them and when you hit the stage you have a "common" feeling. Even though you're the performer and they're the audience there's something uniting everybody in the room.
Joel Plaskett
#65. There is no such thing as low maintenance or high maintenance, just a bunch of women hoping for a capable mechanic.
Liz Vassey
#66. For whom am I waiting? I don't know, at this point in my life there doesn't seem to be anybody that I am really waiting for, hoping for.
Cezmi Ersoz
#67. We are so trained into believing the worst, into thinking some people are beyond hope. What if it's our lack of belief that makes people hopeless? What if we can change the world just by hoping for the best instead of settling for the worst?
Marilyn Grey
#68. Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn't a life plan.
Karen Finerman
#69. So many people go through life without love. Wanting love. Hoping for love. Hungering for more of it than they have. Missing love when it was gone.
John Scalzi
#70. Don't be the majority, just hoping for your name to be called, because it won't happen.
Jason Taylor
#71. I was hoping for it to be possibly a movie career as I still would like to see that happen. I enjoyed making 200 Motels and did try out for a few things when I lived in LA, but nothing ever happened. I'm still hoping though.
Jimmy Carl Black
#72. I'm going to keep thinking about topping myself every time. I can say very confidently that Alice In Chains have done that on every record. It surprises me. I don't go in there expecting that, but I do go in there hoping for it.
Jerry Cantrell
#73. I am hoping for better times. That's how you know us hapless gardeners - by our dirty fingernails and our absurd, unquenchable optimism about next year.
Mary McGrory
#74. Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.
Gabriela Sabatini
#75. Stories come alive in the telling. ( ... )They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someone started to read them, they could begin to change. They could take root in the imagination and transform the reader. Stories wanted to be read.
John Connolly
#76. Never stop hoping for all of the righteous desires of your heart. But don't close your eyes and hearts to the simple and elegant beauties of each day's ordinary moments that make up a rich, well-lived life
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#77. Games have grown and developed from this limited in-the-box experience to something that's everywhere now. Interactive content is all around us, networked, ready. This is something I've been hoping for throughout my career.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#78. The Italians are hoping for an Italian victory.
David Coleman
#79. I have the feeling, Liberty, that you're hoping for someone to give you permission to do what you want to do.
Lisa Kleypas
#80. Above all I am hoping for trees, which may afford me some means of concealment and food and shelter. Often there are trees because barren landscapes are dull and the Games resolve too quickly without them.
Suzanne Collins
#81. I know that a heart can hold on for a lifetime, hoping for the impossible, loving, wanting what it will never have.
Menna Van Praag
#82. Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.
Elizabeth Peters
#83. Were you hoping for a quest? A seemingly impossible task that you could relay to your queen afterward? Would you like to tell her that you found and slayed the dragon for love of her?
-Queen Sorcha
Melissa Marr
#85. It used to be that you made an album and then you went on the road to promote that album, hoping for good record sales. Well, good record sales basically don't exist any more, and the emphasis has been more on the live show.
Alex Lifeson
#86. And so they huddled together, waiting, hoping for a savior that would never come.
-Tides of a Midwinter War, by Constanze De Witte
Marie Lu
#87. The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud.
Leslie Charteris
#88. I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.
Alan Moore
#89. I've gotten used to hoping for so little that I seem to have lost any natural immunity to the emotion's infection.
Barry Eisler
#90. I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that vision. If he were to be harmed in any way, it would spawn the birth of a million Obamas.
Saul Williams
#91. Some people make choices hoping for the best; Korsak had made a choice simply to avoid the worst.
Tess Gerritsen
#92. Doesn't matter," he said solemnly. "Men as a species are wrong. We're better off admitting it up front, taking our punishment and then hoping for good makeup sex.
Maya Banks
#93. She had prayed for someone else, anyone else but Den. She'd been hoping for a nice, quiet man like Papa. Instead, the gods had sent her the man who'd scorched the world.
C.L. Wilson
#94. Ireland was a different place after the famine. The population was drastically reduced - an island of 8.2 million people in 1841 was reduced to 6 million in 1851. At least 1 million of those people had died. The rest fled the country, hoping for a new life in another land.
Ryan Hackney
#95. Yeah. But aren't you good at your job? Isn't this what you've been training for, putting in time at that Dallas news station, hoping for your big break? He flashed a grin at her.Baby, I'm your big break.
Jaci Burton
#96. There's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.
Stephen King
#97. I think he knows all my tricks. Or the fact I don't have any tricks - Brendan Shanahan on trying to score against Curtis Joseph. I'm hoping for a bench clearing brawl during the warm up so I can go out and grab his stick.
Ron Tugnutt
#98. Who are you really, behind the avatars you've created for yourself? What are you covering up? What are you afraid of? What are you hoping for? Where are you going?
Jonathan Martin
#99. The picture I was hoping for is never the picture I get, but yeah, I think they fail all the time. Fortunately my clients don't think they do, so I can continue to have a career. But I just look at them and think.
Gregory Heisler
#100. I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for.
Frank Gehry
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