H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.”
“Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive.”
Source: Sever
“Hope, that star of life's tremulous ocean.”
Source: Poems
“Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition, was not denied to the Roman slave; and if he had any opportunity of rendering himself either useful or agreeable, he might very naturally expect that the diligence and fidelity of a few years would be rewarded with the inestimable gift of freedom.”
Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition
“Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“Hope, to me, is wishing for something good to be true. I believe it is inherent in all of mankind to hope, not because we need to escape where we are, but because we have souls - and those souls were made for something greater than this world. I write about it so often because I think it compels us all. I want to make songs that people at any intellectual level can feel stirred by. Hope is the basest of human feelings to me, the feeling that all emotion springs from.”
“Hope, true hope, has proved as important as any medication I might prescribe or any procedure I might perform.”
Source: The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
“Hope," Frank grumbled. "I'd rather have a few good weasels.”
“Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after.”
Source: Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain. Index
“Hope. An emotion that always kept suckering me in, time after time, despite my supposed retirement from the assassin business. Hope. The one thing that always seemed to get me into more trouble than just killing people for money ever had. Ah, hope. Sometimes, I really hated it.”
Source: Tangled Threads
“Hope. It is the most important thing in the world. I believe that now more than ever. Hope is what saved my life, hope is what gave me the courage and the strength to carry on. Hope – that unshakeable, golden belief that things can get better.”
Source: Execution: Escape from Furnace 5
“Hope. It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it's the only thing in the world keeping me afloat.”
“Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.”
Source: Inkdeath
“Hope. People want hope. We crave hope. We long for hope. Hope has been present since the very beginning. And almost in the worst situations of human history, you often find the greatest amount of hope. The very nature of the situation, the way stepped-on people created within them even more hope than when things were going fine. Hope has always been around.”
“Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.”
“Hope...which is whispered from PAndora's box only after all the other plauges and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is onl time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion.”
“Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“Hope? Hope is not the absence of tragedy, my friend. It is the conviction that tragedy can be endured. Hope is the spark in you that is not subdued in the face of the vast and callous indifference of the universe. Hope is that which is not shattered by hardship. Hope is the urge to fight what is wrong even when you know it will destroy you. Hope is the decision to love and need someone knowing that they will one day die. For me to promise that there are no obstacles would be the cruelest lie I could possibly tell. That lie is not hope. Hope is the will which needs no lies.”
“hoped to prove that science and religion are two totally compatible fields—two different approaches to finding the same truth.”
Source: Angels & Demons
“Hopeful dreams - even where crack kings’ and dope fiends feast. Dust from the ash and rubble; they shine like bright stars once the mic is gripped and the bars are spit.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“Hopeful men do not die so easily.”
“Hopeful soul, happy spirit.”
“Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.”
“Hopefully 10 years from now people won't even realize we started out selling shoes. They will just think about Zappos as a place to get the best customer service.”
“Hopefully, a new dawn will emerge where Sharon Tate is known and appreciated more for who she is and not what was done to her”
Source: Sharon Tate Campaign Plan MMXX
“Hopefully America will forgive me.”
“Hopefully Andy Carroll has only tweeted his hamstring.”
“Hopefully as a result of 'The Frozen Ground,' more and more people will be aware of the horrible things that happen to ladies all over the world and give them respect. This movie is a love letter to those victims.”
“Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.”
“Hopefully before I'm done, I can be on an Olympic team.”
“Hopefully by next week the classes will have paid off and I'll be cooking gourmet."
"Gourmet? From your cooking?" He pushed aside his computer, grabbed a paper plate, and started scoop0ing rice. "You shouldn't be able say those things in the same sentence.”
Source: So I Married a Werewolf
“Hopefully by next week the classes will have paid off and I'll be cooking gourmet."
"Gourmet? From your cooking?" He pushed aside his computer, grabbed a paper plate, and started scooping rice. "You shouldn't be able say those things in the same sentence.”
Source: So I Married a Werewolf
“Hopefully, Donald Trump is just warming up. There is a lot of swamp to drain.”
Source: Understanding Trump
“Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.”
“Hopefully folks will look at the good things that I've done over the years, you know, my 10 years in Congress, my 12 years in state legislature, my many years of community organizing for the environment, for police accountability, for criminal justice reform, economic empowerment, trying to fight for small-business people, all these things.”
“Hopefully he is still alive, or his pecker is un-dead.”
“Hopefully he'll forget about his little vendetta against you.'
'Do most men forget when a woman holds a knife to their balls?”
Source: Fourth Wing
“Hopefully I can be a good light in the hockey world and promote faith as something that's really real.”
“Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time.”
“Hopefully I can finish my degree before I get done playing and work with my foundation.”
“Hopefully I can inspire lots of people to learn about [Patti Smith], to read poetry or learn about William Blake or Arthur Rimbaud.”
“Hopefully I can just have another terrible year with only the one Grand Slam and that will be just fine.”
“Hopefully I don't annoy people too much.”
“Hopefully I don't have to play for eight years but can go and relax somewhere and do something enjoyable while I'm still young.”
“Hopefully I get to come back [to Israel] next year. It's really great to see the encouragement [from] my friends, especially within the Hollywood circle, for me to be an ambassador [for Israel]. Because I'm in love with Israel, and I know everyone else will if they just take the opportunity.”
“Hopefully I never get hit with that stigma of being a novelty act. Since [my father] death in 1998 I've been doing a program called Sinatra Sings Sinatra.”
“Hopefully I'll be able to mature one of these days, get serious, and at least have them [kids] pretty fast.”
“Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!”
“Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.”
“Hopefully I'm a role model for positive change for everyone - not just women. It's very important to find balance between men and women.”