Hope Quotes

My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the ...

Natascha McElhone

I started off as a director, so when I see other actors directing, it gives me hope that maybe they'll put me into that position at some point, too.

Niall Matter

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

Niccolo Machiavelli

I'm terrified of getting what I'm not deserving of, feeling that I've got something for nothing... at the expense of brilliant starving writers all over the world. But I have to hope these people who are helping me have integrity.

Nick McDonell

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

Nick McDonell

One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl.

Naturi Naughton

In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

Nancy Pelosi

I don't know that anybody has walked up to me in the street or in a store or in the grocery and said to me, 'I hope you bomb Assad.' Certainly plenty have said, 'No; thumbs down, thumbs down, thumbs down.'

Nancy Pelosi

Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.

Nancy Reagan

I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

Nora Roberts

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality.

Neil Tennant

I hope to land roles where my presence is carried on throughout the film. I'm looking forward to taking on a role with a complicated backstory and yet someone who refuses to lose sight of hope. I know that it will happen someday.

Nadine Velazquez

I hope what I do and what I just did inspires people around the world to reach for the skies.

Nik Wallenda

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.

Octavia Butler

My characters hope for better lives.

Octavia E. Butler

I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.

Orson Scott Card

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

Ouida

I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait.

Otto Frank

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Oliver Goldsmith

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.