#hope

I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone, all the old fluency’s disappeared. I don’t write a single sentence without saying to myself, ‘It’s a lie!’ So I know I was right. It’s the best chance I’ve ever had. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#philosophy #writer #age

I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here. ↗

— Vijay Singh

#cut #here #hope #i #misses

I'm a hopeless romantic with a dirty mind. ↗

— Leelee Sobieski

#hopeless #hopeless romantic #i #mind #romantic

I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing. ↗

— Georg Solti

#hope #i #i can #neither #only

The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in what we hope for. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#feel #found #greatest #greatest joys #hope

The Olympics will be great for the growth of golf on a global scale, but my focus right now is on being the best player I can be, trying to win Major Championships and contributing to what will hopefully be a victorious European side at the forthcoming Ryder Cup Matches against the USA. ↗

— Rory McIlroy

#being #being the best #best #championships #contributing

Through their work with fetal tissue, researchers hope to find ways to harness embryonic stem cells which have the ability to become any type of human cell and could provide new treatments for many illnesses. ↗

— Tom Allen

#any #become #cell #cells #could

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope? ↗

— Barack Obama

#about #cynicism #election #end #in the end

A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener. ↗

— Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

#arouse #audience #cannot #feel #his

I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention. ↗

— Edward Blake

#hope #i #intention #judgment #may