A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
Charlie Chaplin

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.
David Friedman

As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.
Thomas Edward Brown

By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.
Jack Youngblood

College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.
Jerry Kramer

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
Martha Beck

I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic.
Helen Suzman

I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.
Fay Vincent

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
Peter Benchley

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
Bob Hope

I think on civilian casualties they could do more. It's actually something I've discussed with the editors involved. They're aware of it, and I'm hopeful that there will be more reporting on that.
Daniel Okrent

I'm a hopeful cynic.
Tracy Chapman

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
George W. Bush

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.
Irwin Shaw

I'm praying that was my one little dip in the cancer pool. I hope never to have to revisit that, but I learned a lot, I'm cancer free with a bright and hopeful future.
Julie Gold

In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
Don McLean

Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.
Michael Novak

My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.
Deana Carter

Now you watch the parades and processions of hopeful and despairing people walking outside your tomb. They are all looking for the answer to the problem you know so well.
Lynette Fromme