There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.
Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.
I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.
When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.
So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.
As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.
I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.
For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it's a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people.
My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.
I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.
I think they'd rather us follow our hearts and I hope that's what some people will understand.
Americans appreciate the way our friends around the world are sticking by us, and we all hope for their continued support in what's going to be some very trying times.
You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.
There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope.
That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it.
When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.
The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now.
The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.
I never make a movie for awards consideration. I will use the hope of getting an Academy Award a) to honor the people who work so hard and also b) it's the greatest Good Housekeeping seal in the world. It's the greatest brand. It's as good as Louis Vuitton and Dior in the world of moviemaking. It's the Super Bowl.
I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.
I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.
I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.
In between films I like to travel and hope to visit every continent before I become a mother.
I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.
Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true they just hope to find out what reality is like.
I don't know how many good books I still have in me I hope there are another four or five.
I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.
To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.
It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.
There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.
I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.
My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.