Sayings About Getting Your Hopes Up

#1. Anyway, it fell through because they ran out of money. That was when I learned not to waste your time getting your hopes up or to believe something until it actually happens. We broke up for various reasons, but it was a good band. Jim and Don produced some magical music.

Jamie Muir

#2. The trouble with getting your hopes too far up is: it's a long way down.

Nicola Yoon

#3. We're getting the sort of 'compromise' American politics specializes in: the one where things are intentionally made worse for most people in the hopes that if things are made bad enough, the other side will cave.

Alex Pareene

#4. Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and
free done without subjection to sense and passion, desireless and unattached works, are the first secret of perfection.

Sri Aurobindo

#5. Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller to fit inside the hopes of the other, until one of you cracks or stops existing.

Jacob M. Appel

#6. I'll wait for you, Luce, until you're ready. Just tell me now, so I don't sit around getting my hopes up ... do you think that maybe someday you'll want me, too?

Jay McLean

#7. I grew up in Haifa and enjoyed the wonderful beaches and Mount Carmel that rolls into the Mediterranean Sea. From my early days at home, I remember a strong encouragement to study.

Aaron Ciechanover

#8. Opinions are not facts; and neither are most facts.

Marty Rubin

#9. Getting rid of dragons is not at all in my line, but I will do my best to think about it. Personally I have no hopes at all, and wish I was safe back at home.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. I'm tired and angry at me. For letting myself get smaller and smaller in the hopes that he would notice me more. But how can someone notice you if you keep getting smaller?

Kathleen Glasgow

#11. Science, however, is not just a matter of making mistakes, but of making mistakes in public. Making mistakes for all to see, in the hopes of getting the others to help with the corrections.

Daniel C. Dennett

#12. A humble person is more likely to be self confident ... a person with real humility knows how much they are loved.

Cornelius Plantinga

#13. For the first time in his life, Michael understood why real soldiers coming back from real wars often had a hard time getting over the things they'd seen and done. And had done to them. If Michael had a soul, it was starting to leak out of his hopes.

James Dashner

#14. I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.

Tia Carrere

#15. For a woman, every outfit is a hopeful spell, cast to influence the outcome of the day. An act of trying to predict your fate, like looking at your horoscope.

Caitlin Moran

#16. I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

Kate Winslet

#17. It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps.

Tony Benn

#18. I brought you in this world, and I can take you out!

Bill Cosby

#19. I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.

Vikram Seth

#20. First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos.

Nina Blackwood

#21. Novelists seem to fall into two distinct categories - those that plan and those that just see where it takes them. I am very much the former category.

Jojo Moyes

#22. To fight adversity, to improvise, to solve problems, and to save the coup, I had gathered all my senses into unusual configurations, which made me grow wild and enhanced my perceptions.

Philippe Petit

#23. I love Nautilus and stretching. The results are immediate, and that gives me the motivation to continue.

Donna Dixon

#24. So remember when you tell those little white lies that the night has a thousand eyes.

Bobby Vee

#25. Hopes and dreams are the solely reasons why people getting hurt and desperate yet still we're trying to climb the same cliff.

C.c

#26. Finding true love starts with taking inventory of our strengths and weaknesses, quirks and traits, hopes and dreams, and getting to know the person behind the mask.

Debra Fileta

#27. That, as my cousin Nord would say, is where my improvised lie falls apart.

Eoin Colfer

#28. Everybody tries to find the purpose for their life in hopes thst one more day is justified. But once you truly see, the very reason why you're breathing becomes so much more than getting by.

MercyMe

#29. Our goal is to write memorable songs. We're not there yet, but we're getting closer. Each time we sit down to write, we have hopes of coming up with something that will be remembered forever. That's our dream.

Joel Madden

#30. Thomas felt his spirits lift, but immediately squashed them back down. Getting his hopes up was something he'd sworn never to do again. Not until all this was over.

James Dashner

#31. Peter was lost. More than lost, really. Spectacularly, hopelessly, "tell the search party not to get their hopes up" lost. If there was a contest for getting lost being held at that moment, Peter wouldn't win because he wouldn't be able to find it. That's how lost he was.

Mark Hill