Hoping Quotes

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Winston Churchill

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Forward, Real, Living

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love, Faith, Hope

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.
Ronald Reagan

Someone, Last, Eat

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Coco Chanel

Time, Door, Spend

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus

Life, Another, Against

Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.
Barack Obama

Forward, Down, Working

You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.
Clint Eastwood

Special, Rather, Story

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Great, Power, Knowledge

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.
Mike Tyson

Him, Down, Keep

Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.
Kevyn Aucoin

Life, Heart, Short

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.
Joyce Meyer

Experience, Live, Enemy

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Alexander Pope

Best, End, Find

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Forward, Enjoy, Looking

That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.
Kevyn Aucoin

Beauty, Through, Find

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
Fran Lebowitz

Hope, Around, Moral

Patience is the art of hoping.
Luc de Clapiers

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
William Butler Yeats

Hope, End, Dying

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
James Dickey

Rain, Someone, Outside

I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them.
Emo Philips

Lucky, Gum, Bars

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.
Steven Seagal

Great, Sex, Rather

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.
Christopher Hitchens

Children, Human, Done

I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.
Howard Stern

Fail, Prove, Hated

Look, the president is elected to lead and to face the country's biggest challenges. The country's biggest challenge domestically speaking, no doubt about it, is a debt crisis, and I'm really hoping that he is going to give us a budget that tackles this debt crisis.
Paul Ryan

Crisis, Doubt, Give

I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do.
Paul Kane

Same, Film, Public

It was so draining. Going to parties to rub elbows with so-and-so and act like it's no big deal, when really all I was doing was hoping I'd have the success they had.
Katy Perry

Success, Big, Act

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.
Louis Farrakhan

Family, Year, Families

I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution.
Paul Lynde

Today, Live, Laughter

Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job.
Ron Fournier

Job, Negative, Against

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view.
Joe Biden

Home, Put, Kids

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