I actually have great hopes for the future.

- David Remnick

The devastating scale and frequency of my disappointment was proof of how much I still expected and wanted from the world, of what high hopes I still had for it.

- Geoff Dyer

Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.

- Frederick William Robertson

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.

- Franklin Pierce

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.

- Elizabeth Kostova

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

- Euripides

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

- Erich Fromm

What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.

- Diane Duane

Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.

- Alan Rickman

I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records.

- Drew Brees

My fan base is really expanding into an inter-generational thing - it's what every artist probably hopes for.

- Daryl Hall

In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

- Cherrie Moraga

One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know.

- Chris Frantz

Even in relationships, I don't get my hopes up or anything, especially not right now because I know I'm young and I've got plenty of time later in the future.

- Christina Milian

Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

- Chesley Sullenberger

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.

- Arthur Hugh Clough

To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.

- Angela Carter

In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.

- Anthony Kiedis