The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue. Dolly Parton on hope
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics. Thomas Carlyle on hope
Marriage is the death of hope. Woody Allen on hope
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't. Rodney Dangerfield on hope
Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent. Gore Vidal on hope
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope. Ambrose Bierce on hope
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. George Eliot on hope
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. Ambrose Bierce on hope
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. Edmund Burke on hope
Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves. Henry Miller on hope
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors. William Hazlitt on hope
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca on hope
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. Nikos Kazantzakis on hope
I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. F. Scott Fitzgerald on hope
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. Epictetus on hope
I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will. Arnold Schwarzenegger on hope
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man. Richard P. Feynman on hope
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. Thomas Carlyle on hope
Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it. Thomas Merton on hope
Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have. Ed Bradley on hope