Quotes About Hoping

#1. And then he thought, profoundly, how there was something grand about living in hope, but also something terribly unreal and incomplete about it, because when you were hoping, you were not doing or living or experiencing the Now,

Larry Kramer

#2. Resentment is the act of stabbing yourself repeatedly in the heart with a knife, hoping the other person dies.

Stacey Turis

#3. May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

Robertson Davies

#4. I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.

Halsey

#5. I have the feeling, Liberty, that you're hoping for someone to give you permission to do what you want to do.

Lisa Kleypas

#6. One of the masters at the University once told me that there were seven words that would make a woman love you." I made a deliberately casual shrug. "I was just wondering what they were." "Is that why you talk so much? Hoping to come on them by accident?" I

Patrick Rothfuss

#7. That's my credo - My work is play. I don't complain about work. I enjoy it. I like the feeling of being able to lay down at night and you're so doggone tired, you're just hoping to get undressed before you fall asleep.

Buck Brannaman

#8. I give and bequeath my soul to Almighty God that gave it me, hoping that through the meritorious death and passion of our Savior and Redeemer Jesus Christ to receive absolution and remission for all my sins.

George Mason

#9. Feeling ready to do something doesn't mean feeling certain you'll succeed, though of course that's what you're hoping to do. Truly being ready means understanding what could go wrong - and having a plan to deal with it.

Chris Hadfield

#10. Not forgiving somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that the offender will get sick.

Gary Smalley

#11. It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hoping and believing! If a love affair is one-sided, then it's only ever a question, never an answer. You can't live your life waiting for an answer.

Sophie Kinsella

#12. Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#13. That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.

Isaac Barrow

#14. I'm not looking for clothes," Peter quickly explained, hoping she might like him better if she knew he hadn't come to invade her neatly folded shirts.
"That's a shame" the woman said.

Jack Lewis Baillot

#15. So, I kind of rather was hoping that people thought it would have a nice mixture of different topics and it also takes in the fact that I've had two children recently.

Jo Brand

#16. 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

#17. I was rather hoping we could live happily in sin for a very long time.

Gail Carriger

#18. I went overseas hoping to prove that all our POWs were home. I came back convinced that they were still alive.

Bo Gritz

#19. Another long run, hoping to put distance between me and everything else. The farther, the better. Only problem is, the distance is just temporary, because no matter how far I go, I always have to come back.

Lisa Schroeder

#20. New media is ... an amazing form of direct marketing in that you really get a sense of who your customer is, and you also get to know those people who may not be your customers yet but are aspirational and are hoping to be.

Ivanka Trump

#21. A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it.

Khaled Hosseini

#22. And in the morning
they shook their pillows
violently, hoping
all the dreams they lost
that night would tumble out.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#23. It's as if I've inherited a skin I cannot quite fit, and so I walk about constantly pulling and and tugging, pinning and pruning, trying desperately to fill it out, hoping that no one will look at me struggling and say, 'That one there- she's a fraud, Look how she doesn't fit at all.

Libba Bray

#24. Do you like vegetables?" Sophie asked, hoping to steer the conversation towards a slightly less dangerous kind of food.
"You is trying to change the subject," the Giant said sternly. "We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable.

Roald Dahl

#25. I now know pain
is part of any journey-
that this is the opposite
of grief, but grief
the only way I know
to describe waiting
and waiting without
knowing, hoping one day
joy will arrive.

Kevin Young

#26. I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them.

Emo Philips

#27. I just really hope that Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema can resolve all their differences. I'm hoping that's going to happen, but we'd have to wait and see. I would love to explore Middle Earth again with Peter.

Karl Urban

#28. Those who oppose the religious right would have a much easier time if all of the movement's leaders expressed themselves as freely as [Brad] Keena. Here's hoping his star rises.

David Corn

#29. Yesterday I was on the edge Hoping everything was going to work itself out A good honest man doing the work of God Trying to make things better for Him A lover of life in a school for fools Trying to find another way to survive

Cat Stevens

#30. Liberal intellectualstend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping thatthose in positions of authority may prove to be enlightened men, wielding power justly, they are natural, if cautious, allies of the establishment.

Susan Sontag

#31. I'm doing what I've always done. Loving you and hoping you'll be brave enough to love me back.

HelenKay Dimon

#32. 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

#33. I'm hoping that I'll be able to find a distributor to come into Canada with it, because I think it is a wild and crazy romp that really tells things like it is.

Burt Ward

#34. 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

#35. Sometimes the whole world feels like that horse to me, I say aloud. Does that make sense? Like everyone's just groaning & screaming through the pain, hoping something better comes out.

Emily Henry

#36. Loving another person is taking a giant leap of faith. It's being vulnerable at the most basic level. It's like taking your heart out of your chest and chucking it off a cliff, hoping that someone is waiting at the bottom with open arms to catch it.

J. Sterling

#37. The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that's one kind of person, but the fellow who's hiding behind a tree and hoping you don't see him is the fellow that you'd better find out why.

Dorothea Lange

#38. I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute.

Julian Schnabel

#39. He had to keep thinking of them because if he forgot them and did not think of them they might forget about him. And he had to keep hoping.

Gary Paulsen

#40. I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

Joyce Meyer

#41. The great thing about an independent film is that you're too busy working, and you're too busy hoping to God to get it done.

Ann Dowd

#42. 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

#43. I never did theater. I was a theater major at USC my first year because I didn't get into the film school. I was biding my time, hoping to be accepted to film school, and I ended up transferring to UCLA my sophomore year.

Darren Star

#44. There are those who say that poets should use her and his art to change the world. I'd agree with that, but I think everybody should do that. I think the chef and the baker and the candlestick maker - I think everybody should be hoping to make it a better world.

Maya Angelou

#45. What the Ellison Foundation and I are hoping to encourage is a more holistic approach to psychiatry, in which psychotherapy is put on as rigorous a level as psychopharmacology.

Eric Kandel

#46. - Obviously, we're hoping that the weather forecasters are wrong, the way they tend to be about ninety-eight percent of the time
A few adults chuckled at that lameness. I remember thinking, hoping, that I would never turn into the kind of person who though weather jokes were funny.

Siobhan Vivian

#47. Yeah, I like that idea. Maybe he'll shoot at us again. I was hoping someone would shoot at me today. That was the first thing I said when I got up: Boy, I hope I get shot at today.

Janet Evanovich

#48. Hoping for the best is hoping nothing happens

Taking Back Sunday

#49. the princess locked herself away in the highest tower, hoping a knight in shining armor would come to her rescue. - i didn't realize i could be my own knight.

Amanda Lovelace

#50. I am hoping that the scientists and politicians who have been blindly demonizing carbon dioxide for 37 years will one day open their eyes and look at the evidence.

Freeman Dyson

#51. Choosing from every book ever published seems like a dream, until you're forced to sift through hundreds of thousands of titles on your Kindle, and all the reviews attached to them, hoping to find something good.

David Sax

#52. If I were honest, I'd say it only sort of gets better. That there's always this part of you that got carved out. It's a physical thing, I swear to God, and it's the part that swells right before you cry. Eventually you stop hoping and start to fill it up with memories.

Kathleen Hale

#53. The change that I never fall into is the, 'I'm-above-you-look-at-me-do-stuff-for-me change.' The change that I'm hoping I get to is where I become wiser, smarter - where I put myself in situations that don't have a huge potential for disaster.

Jeremy Lin

#54. Virginia and Maryland attorneys argued this is a national problem and needs a national solution. I'm hoping that with a federal court agreeing this is inequitable, Congress will now act and do the right thing for the District.

Walter Smith

#55. If you hold onto a man hoping someone else won't get them you have learned how to be desperate, not wise.

Shannon L. Alder

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without hoping to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion.

Jane Austen

#59. 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

#60. I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

Alan Moore

#61. 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

#62. When you're on a movie set and you are hopefully making a comedy, everyone's stifling their laughter. You're looking at the crew guys, hoping someone is making that face like, and not like, this is not working out, man.

Dane Cook

#63. I'll see you soon, I think as I fall, hoping she can hear me. It's as good a last thought as any, and I hold it close like a light in the darkness.

Rebecca Harris

#64. What it made me realize was that a show like this makes people look inside themselves. Because this crew guy isn't sitting there wishing the character would fight back. He's hoping that he would fight back.

Lee Tergesen

#65. I was hoping to feel something when I saw her. She was my incubating uterus and birthday party thrower for the last seventeen years. I half expected a rush of warmth or memories, some familiarity. I flinch away from the stranger in front of me.

Colleen Hoover

#66. I'd never look at a pick again without wondering if it was Cole's heart.
He cocked an eyebrow. But the look in your eyes was murderous. Do you have a thing against guitar picks, or we're you hoping I'd be stupid enough to still carry my heart around with me?

Brodi Ashton

#67. Flip a coin. When it's in the air, you'll know which side you're hoping for.

Arnold Rothstein

#68. I'm always waiting for you, hoping that you'll be really interested, that you'll try completely. In every life I wait for you. I've always been waiting and I always will.

Frederick Lenz

#69. My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.

Kaley Cuoco

#70. I have a deal worked out with the things that hide in my basement. After I shut off the lights, I have exactly ten seconds to leave safely. I always use the full ten seconds, hoping to see a flash of movement just as I reach safety.

Fran Krause

#71. Nobody went to see Tideland! I was hoping people would get angry about it but those that saw it didn't want to talk about it. This is the world we're living in, people don't want to discuss things that are actually worth discussing.

Terry Gilliam

#72. We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.

Jerry Spinelli

#73. 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

#74. I am still hoping to see an America that would gradually move beyond race, only in times when old ideas would no longer lives and the new will grow with the young generation.

Henry Johnson Jr

#75. Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.

Barack Obama

#76. All I am hoping for is to be able to work - I think my best work is still ahead of me - I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor.

Mickey Rourke

#77. I need to admit up front that I don't know how to have a fling. I'm not good at playing around and then saying good-bye. I'm throwing myself at your feet because I'm hoping for a shot at forever. Henry Jenkins/Mr. Nobley

Shannon Hale

#78. Smug, exhausted and dumb. He's just what I'd been hoping for.

Pittacus Lore

#79. I am now certain that you were exactly the person we were hoping to find.

Reki Kawahara

#80. I'm hoping to do a Broadway musical on the life of Rasputin. He's someone I can definitely identify with.

Ozzy Osbourne

#81. Leading from the front: It's what built America. But these days, the federal government isn't at the front - it's cowering in the back corner of the room, ducking responsibility and hoping no one notices.

Michael Bloomberg

#82. Keisha frowned. "Maybe he's hoping for hidden depths?" "I haven't even got hidden

J.L. Merrow

#83. I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do.

Paul Kane

#84. People change and people keep change and we keep paying ticket fines and hoping that that means something close to love, and I'm bankrupt from missing you.

Shinji Moon

#85. I came up with a pen and tablet hoping to write an immortal short story, but I've been having a dreadful time with my heroine - I CAN'T make her behave as I want her to behave; so I've abandoned her for the moment, and am writing to you.

Jean Webster

#86. Hoping like hell she was wrong about Dominic, and he was just a secretive man with a strange skin disorder.

Isabelle Rowan

#87. Maybe we're just missing things we've lost, or hoping for what we want to come.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#88. So I am hoping my second outing to your wonderful university turns out differently because it would be highly embarrassing if I said "good evening Yaleites" or "Yalers" or whatever you guys are called, and got stuck at ... yaaaaa ... that wouldn't make for much of a speech.

Shahrukh Khan

#89. Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#90. I want to say we're okay, Bliss. I need you, too. But I can't pretend I wasn't hoping this would go somewhere. I don't know if I can do it. The truth is ... you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don't love me back ... it hurts.

Cora Carmack

#91. And personally I will say that Amy Poehler deserves about a thousand trophies and so one is a good start, and I'm hoping this is the first of a thousand. That's my personal hope.

Michael Schur

#92. Hoping so hard that there was one boy out there who wanted you as much as you wanted him, because you wouldn't know what you would do with yourself if this were not true.

Laura Ruby

#93. That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

Joseph Barbera

#94. In the quiet of the graveyard, the couple knelt together in soul-stretching silence - wishing, waiting, hoping, praying.

Seth Adam Smith

#95. Hoping they bury me with ammunition, weed, and shells. Just in case ...

Tupac Shakur

#96. Here's hoping that your special day
Will be more 'happy ever after'
With all the joys of friendship,
Love, fun and laughter

John Walter Bratton

#97. If you saw me working with construction crews or graphic designers, you'd see how much I'm really hoping for them to bring something to the table and let God in the room and let things happen naturally.

Jack White

#98. In our family, mom and dad are Longhorns, our first two kids are Aggies and we're hoping our last one is a Longhorn. It gives us family fun on Thanksgiving Day.

Bob Wells

#99. Instead of hoping that some day the boys' club will open its doors, we can form our own clubs, define 'worthy' our own way, and celebrate the books and voices that we decide deserve celebration.

Jennifer Weiner

#100. I never staged a coup. They picked me up. Like I say, they forced me to become premier, maybe hoping that by that way, they send me to the electric chair.

Nguyen Cao Ky