— Ben Affleck"I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship."
Hope Quotes
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Authors on Hope
— Gustave Flaubert"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."
— Jim Carrey"One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again."
— Lord Byron"But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of."
— Mignon McLaughlin"Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent."
— Emily Dickinson"I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven."
— Ambrose Bierce"Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones."
— George Eliot"But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."
— Marco Rubio"Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald"I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't."
— William Hazlitt"The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors."
— Ambrose Bierce"Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope."
— Thomas Carlyle"It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics."
— Niccolo Machiavelli"War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms."
— Erich Fromm"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime."
— Thomas Sowell"As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking."
— Joel Osteen"I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope."
— Leonardo da Vinci"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel."
— Joel Osteen"To me, we're marketing hope."
— Woodrow Wilson"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."