This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

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.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don’t know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

I don’t know what ‚normal‘ means, anyway.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

At the end of the day, I pray for the best.

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.

People tell me that they are so hopeful when they see me and other children ‚school-striking,‘ and they say, ‚Oh the children are going to save us.‘ But no, we aren’t. We are too young to be able to do that. We don’t have time to wait for us to grow up and fix this in the future.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I’ve always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn’t wait to be 16 and get a driver’s license.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

The future will be better tomorrow.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

They say miracles are past.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

‚In Utero‘ was the first time I’d made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear ‚Pennyroyal Tea.‘

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

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.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it.

So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.