Stop Hoping Quotes

#1. No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.

Jodi Picoult

#2. The only way to stay sane is to stop hoping for something better.

Jonathan Tropper

#3. I'm not a bad guy. If only I could stop hoping. If only I could say to my heart: Give up. Be alone forever. There's always opera. There's angel-food cake and neighborhood children caroling, and the look of autumn leaves on a wet roof. But no. My heart's some kind of idiotic fishing bobber.

George Saunders

#4. You'll stop hurting when you stop hoping.

Guillaume Musso

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Would you stop hoping? Hope is just postponed disappointment.

Laura Schlessinger

#8. Stop hoping, start believing.

Nick Jonas

#9. When we stop hoping, that which we fear will certainly come.

Christa Wolf

#10. But I guess you learn to stop hoping, after a while. Life teaches you to expect the worst, eh?

Joe Abercrombie

#11. When you stop hoping you start settling.

Valorie Burton

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. Stop hoping for the weather to change, this is where you chose to live, either accept it or move.

Gudjon Bergmann

#16. Never stop hoping, wishing, and praying; your dreams are merely a heartbeat away. And while you're at it, invest in them too!

Apryl L Yates

#17. 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

#18. A white van drove slowly - as slowly as only an inexperienced and frightened driver could go
down San Pablo Avenue. It came to a stop at a distance, and Caine found himself hoping it was
trouble. Trouble he could handle. A fight would be a wonderful relief from the tedium.

Michael Grant

#19. I liked to dwell on these shortcomings now. It wasn't only that I was wondering why they had ever annoyed me. I was hoping they would annoy me still, so that I could stop missing her.

Anne Tyler

#20. We need to stop the dying and start the living; stop the hunger and start the hoping.

Penelope Cruz

#21. Again Gabe looked back at Michael, hoping he was about to step in, but all he did was give him a nod. A nod? Really? I don't need a nod. I need someone to stop this! Gabe thought.

Wendy Owens

#22. In fact, I was hoping that if I came to see you off, I would be asked to do manual labor." Iko shrugged. "If you don't want to do any heavy lifting, then stop having such impressive muscles." Cinder

Marissa Meyer

#23. Nobody has been able to stop them [homosexuals] so far, I'm hoping Uganda can.

Scott Lively

#24. I'm certainly hoping that 3D gets to the point where people do not notice it because once they stop noticing it, it just becomes another tool and an aid to help tell a story.

Steven Spielberg

#25. With pleasure," Kinney deadpanned. "In fact, I was hoping that if I came to see you off, I would be asked to do manual labor." Iko shrugged. "If you don't want to do any heavy lifting, then stop having such impressive muscles.

Marissa Meyer

#26. We were battered and dinged, both well past the weight limit in personal baggage. And, like the rest of humanity, it would be our destiny to be tossed and torn by events unseen and unplanned. But that didn't stop me from hoping we could somehow navigate it together.

Paula Garner

#27. I wish people would stop hitting Po," whispered Bitterblue.
"Well," Giddon said. "Yes. I'm hoping Skye is following my model. Punch Po; go on a long trip; feel better; come back and make up.

Kristin Cashore

#28. I have a kitten. He said for lack of anything else and hoping it would stop her from hitting him full on with her Louisville Slugger.

Dominique Eastwick

#29. You want to neuter us," Director Tagg said. "Stop us from policing the criminals who run this city."
"As my client put it, Director, we're hoping to free you to focus your efforts on real targets.

Wildbow

#30. Fate might hate me, but that doesn't stop me from hoping one day she forgets about her favorite chew toy. When that day comes I hope karma has some fun with that bitch fate

Harper Sloan

#31. My fear of endings too often blocks my hope of beginnings.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#32. Vasher stood and began to run again, hoping that this distraction would earn him time. Indeed, a few moments later he heard cries coming from the doorway. Clangs and screams followed. Lifeless could be difficult to stop, particularly a fresh one with orders to bite.

Brandon Sanderson

#33. And sometimes we cling because the memory is so painful that we can't stop visiting it and hoping to make it come out differently. The risk of letting go is that we have to confront our own selves and our own possibilities.

Amy Bloom

#34. I'm hoping that maybe I can be part of a disaster relief effort, something that's real life. That's kind of what I do anytime I stop working: 'OK, what's something that you've really wanted to do?'

Missy Peregrym

#35. Because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't stop himself from hoping it might be that person, even though he knew he shouldn't hope.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#36. Though I've honestly been hoping there comes a point in your life when you stop worrying about what your parents think.

Alexis Hall

#37. I stop, because a little piece of me can't help hoping. I turn to look at him, and know, to my shame, that he could break my resolve with a single word.

Cristin Terrill

#38. Charles, we should never stop pretending. Pretending can lead to wishing. Wishing then leads to hoping. Hoping then moves to dreaming. Dreaming can then lead to planning. If we are lucky, some plans come true.

John J. Siefring

#39. Promise me you'll never stop dreaming.

Melina Marchetta

#40. He was quiet. I said nothing, hoping that maybe, for once, he'd stop pretending he was okay. Then I could, too. That we could both forget the roles that had so long bound us.

Megan Hart

#41. Hatred or happiness. Could I be happy? Did I even fucking deserve it? I knew the answer to that one but it didn't stop me wondering, and hoping. "It's

D.H. Sidebottom

#42. Hoping to Fall Out:
Leaning out as far as she can, hoping she'll fall soon, so she can stop worrying about whether it will happen or not.

Brian Andreas