#hope

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#accept #courage #cry #done #get

I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older. ↗

— Darren Aronofsky

#films #get #getting #getting better #hope

But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns. ↗

— John James Audubon

#birds #distance #flying #great #great distance

Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#hope #life #change

My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message. ↗

— Christian Bale

#between #character #complete #consumerism #difference

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more. ↗

— John Adams

#cannot #choose #ever #exist #existed

I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#empty #enjoys #entertain #even #feel

Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me? ↗

— John James Audubon

#any #degree #delusive #further #hope

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. ↗

— Jane Austen

#always #because #cure #forgiven #hope

People forget they have options. And they forget that those things don't really matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have. And by the way, wishing and dreaming doesn't mean concentrating on what you don't have, it's positive thinking that encourages hoping and believing, not whinging and moaning. ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#hopes #hoping #inspirational #options #positive