hope

"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."

"I do not seek to copy nature. I, on the contrary, create to divert me such faith and dreams as living among men would tend to destroy. But as it is, my worshipers depart from me heartedly, in this gre…"

"Politics need to bring people hope. We need more dreams and more stories that touch people."

"The belief in unity that has fuelled so many utopian dreams is an effort to reconcile the irreconcilable that ends in repression. Berlin suggests we renounce this venerable faith, and learn how to liv…"

"I'm not a drummer anymore, on my gravestone, if there is one, if anyone writes anything about me besides hopefully being a dad, it would be that I sang in my band when I was in my 20s. So I was like, …"

"Christian Apocalyptic offers us no such hope. It does not even foretell, a gradual decay. It foretells a sudden, violent end imposed from without; an extinguisher popped onto the candle, a brick flung…"

"I was angry, that in a crisis, those three women, and many others to whom Liz Broderick had spoken, had not been able to rely on their mates. In other words the very thing that we claim as our definin…"

"Chamberlin's Dark Optimism website"

"It is for him that is lonely or in prison to dream of fellowship, but for him that is of a fellowship to do and not to dream."

"The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."

"“The world was different before the war,” he said. “We didn’t have this instantaneous access to information that your generation has. The world was a bigger, more mysterious place—we still dreamed of …"

"It is our utopias that make the world tolerable to us: the cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live."

"There are those of you who may choose to live in a dream world where the glass is half full, but if you do, you're an imbecile.  The glass will never be half full.  Nor full ever again.  It's simply o…"

"And my intention is to try to form a collection of many such things, which would not be quite unworthy of the title 'heads of the people.' By working hard, boy, I hope to succeed in making something g…"

"Possible impossibility emerges from an impossible possibility, or possibly, impossible possibility blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility."

"It's sort of root and branch, some of our agencies are taking. Every single regulation they have ever done, they are looking at it over and over again, and hopefully, sometimes it's gonna be cleaning …"

"These horrifying digital snapshots of the American dream in action on foreign soil are worse than anything even I could have expected. I have been in this business a long time and I have seen many sta…"

"Hopefully, I’ll be remembered as the person who brought an end to Christianity."

"My father had a magnificent dream, but it still is only a dream. It is easier to build monuments than make a better world. If we choose to honor him in words alone, it will be a grotesque farce."

"We may speak loosely of a ‘sense of time,’ but there is no such sensory organ. Time is something we experience and construct. Time is experienced--is felt--when we wait, expect, or hope."