hope

"The hopes which inspire communism are, in the main, as admirable as those instilled by the Sermon on the Mount, but they are held as fanatically and are as likely to do as much harm."

"He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever."

"To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men."

"How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?"

"For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?"

"He's after what it means to be profoundly out of step with one's culture yet still unwilling to let go of the American dream."

"Our prayers can be more than empty wishes, vain hopes or feeble aspirations – but only when they are prayed from faith-filled hearts."

"I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral."

"The eye of the yeoman and peasant sought in vain the tall form of old Sir Henry Lee of Ditchley, as, wrapped in his laced cloak, and with beard and whiskers duly composed, he moved slowly through the …"

"All of us wish we had an Alice. I wish I had an Alice."

"It was in World War I that the age-old certainties were lost. Until then aristocrats and capitalists felt secure in their position, and even socialists felt certain in their faith. It was never to be …"

"My concern for environmental issues and the challenge to leave our fragile planet in good condition for future generations. However, we take advantage of our opportunities, all the positive and hopefu…"

"But to have dreamed the dream is to have flown above the mountains so high in all but deed."

"If you really look at it, I was trying to sell a dream … There was very little I could put in concrete to tell these people it was really real."

"If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile."

"Of all our dreams today there is none more important — or so hard to realise — than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to co…"

"The work that has so far been done has indeed been of the highest value. The growth during the last 50 years , of a feeling of common nationality, based upon common tradition, common disabilities, and…"

"A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo'."

"In April 1667, four revenue collectors , who had been dismissed for various faults, were reinstated on their accepting the Muhammadan faith.39 Aurangzeb’s declared policy of “Qanungo basharte Islam” b…"

"The king, in his zeal to propagate the faith, now marched against the Hindoos of Nagrakote , breaking down their idols and razing their temples. The fort, at that time denominated the Fort of Bheem, w…"