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All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.
Something good was happening. My life was rising from the ashes, and the sight of it left me feeling something like hopeful.
People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.
Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a relentless, questioning, hopeful people.
There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around.
A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.
Life in L.A. has been amazing. It's been really hard, it's been eventful. It's a lot of what ifs and maybes and being hopeful.
For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.
By promoting liberty abroad, we will build a safer world. By encouraging liberty at home, we will build a more hopeful America.
It's hard to look at [Donald] Trump as a hopeful sign because, in his own way, he is offering false solutions to many problems.
I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called.
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
I suppose reggae has always been a hopeful way to protest, and just because the world's tragic doesn't mean it's not beautiful.
Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.
My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.
It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.
I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.
In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I'm very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.
The Labour party is not perfect but I have seen in my own life how it is the greatest vehicle for positive hopeful social change.
How beautiful that after 2,000 years, no one can outdo "God is love." It's the most perfectly concise, hopeful phrase in history.
In retrospect, everything is finite, but prospectively, there are infinite possibilities. I guess that's what makes life hopeful.
' Torn' is hopeful. It's a book that meets you in your pain and shows you how to move forward with life and in your walk with God.
I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.
Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.
There is so much strife and tension in the world that I find the silent world of paintings from the past both hopeful and healing.
One hopeful sign that the filmmakers can learn and grow is that the sequel does not contain a single pie, if you know what I mean.
I go from being hugely hopeful and entertaining to... really not. I'm not manic depressive, but I can really go to the darker side.
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.
As hopeful as I am, there are some times in my life when I get to low points. Luckily, I still have music to get me through things.
But I am a girl with a keen interest in having it all, and what follows are hopeful dispatches from the frontlines of that struggle.
No, his mind is not for rent To any God or government Always hopeful yet discontent He knows changes aren't permanent But change is.
If you think humanity can get itself out of all this mess without divine help, then you're not being hopeful - you're hallucinating.
A good film is always nourishing. It's not about it being hopeful or bleak; it's about how it touches you, how it moves or stirs you.
I agree Maria Blasco has achieved amazing things with telomerase induction and we are hopeful this will translate to the human model.
When we aren't collectively imagining hopeful futures, then the way things are going almost invariably seems negative and frightening.
This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.
I am very, very hopeful about the American South - I believe that we will lead America to what Dr. King called 'the beloved community.'
I have faith in all mankind. Well,not faith really, more like hopeful suspicion. And not "all" but 5 people. Mankind meaning computers.
A song like 'Tears Dry on Their Own' is really sad, but it's hopeful, too - that was my theme song for the first boy who broke my heart.
I'm not personally fearful, but I look out, and there are a number of things that concern me, and I'm hopeful that we can overcome them.
Reincarnation is a hopeful understanding of life. It is an accurate understanding of life. In each lifetime we grow, develop and evolve.
The Internet is a game changer. I'm hopeful I can make a contribution by providing a way to learn about the game of golf free of charge.
No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.
Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.
The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do
Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I'm hopeful, but very, very concerned.
Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first!
Giving encouragement to others is a most welcome gift, for the results of it are lifted spirits, increased self-worth, and a hopeful future.