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Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one race - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Under Barack Obama, the only Change is that Hope has been hard to find. Now millions of Americans are insecure about their future. But instead of inspiring us by reminding us of what makes us special, he divides us against each other. He tells Americans they are worse off because others are better off. That people got rich by making others poor.

I hope I am wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.

I hope when I am dead I will be considered an icon, though.

Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you are done, you want to say, I hope you all enjoy it.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

I doubt I will be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I will still get the opportunity to write songs.

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.

Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.