Hope Quotes - page 94

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets, lies, stories. We all tell them. Sometimes, because we hope to entertain. Sometimes, because we need to distract. And sometimes, because we have to. (Jodi Picoult)
Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope. View quote
Jodi Picoult
Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain. View quote
Jodi Picoult
I think that when you live in a world with limits... when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life. View quote
Jodi Picoult
Right now I'm not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again. View quote
Stevie Nicks
"The clerk is dying, Rosemund is dying, you've all been exposed. Why shouldn't I give up hope?” "God has not abandoned us utterly,” he said. "Agnes is safe in his arms.” Safe, she thought bitterly. In the ground. In the cold. In the dark. View quote
Connie Willis
It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want. View quote
Amy Tan
You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable. View quote
Amy Tan
I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success. View quote
Amy Tan
There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying. Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do. View quote
Amy Tan
Look at this face. Do you see my foolish hope? (Amy Tan)
I hope to stand for a new harmony, a greater tolerance. We've come far, but I think we need a new harmony among the races in our country. And we're on a journey into a new century, and we've got to leave that tired old baggage of bigotry behind. View quote
George H. W. Bush
We must act on what we know. I take as my guide the hope of a saint: In crucial things, unity; in important things, diversity; in all things, generosity. View quote
George H. W. Bush
One can have different attitudes to it, one can believe that the horsemen of the Apocalypse are already on their way and all hope is in Almighty God. However, one can still try to tone down this international situation. View quote
Dmitry Medvedev
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. View quote
Elizabeth Bowen
Speaking of hope, did you see that shot Alec got off with his bow? That's my boyfriend. View quote
Cassandra Clare
And we believe in his promises. Therefore you can never lose hope - hatikva - because if you keep hope alive, it will keep you alive. View quote
Cassandra Clare
It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Hope is not an illusion. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Clary smiled at him with a warmth she didn't feel. "Sebastian says I can come with you.” Jace raised his eyebrows. "Matching haircuts for everyone?” "I hope not,” said Sebastian. "I look terrible with curls. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Without conflict there is no plot, without hope there is no story. (Cassandra Clare)
Perhaps he's in love with Agatha," she said. "I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal. View quote
Cassandra Clare
I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider. View quote
Cassandra Clare
This kind of reminds me of the time my grandfather gave me his old golf clubs." "Yeah, except you never use those." "And I hope you never have to use that. View quote
Cassandra Clare
I feel a kinship with you, too, you who have lost both brother and father. I know you have been judged and spoken of as the daughter of Valentine Morgenstern, and now the sister of Jonathan. There will always be those who want to tell you who you are based on your name or the blood in your veins. Do not let people decide who you are. Decide for yourself. That freedom is not a gift; it is a birthright. I hope that you and Jace will use it. View quote
Cassandra Clare