I'll just be your brother from now on. " he said, looking at her with a hopeful expectation that she would be pleased, which made her want to scream that he was smashing her heart into pieces and he had to stop. "That's what you wanted, isn't it?" It took her a long time to answer, and when she did, her own voice sounded like an echo, coming from very far away. "Yes," she said, and she heard the rush of waves in her ears and her eyes stung as if from sand or salt spray. "That's what I wanted.
Building on our Young South-east Asian Leaders Initiative, I'm hopeful that we can continue expand the ties and cooperation between our young people and students.
The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and loving and not hateful toward anyone.
I think happy and hope is more hopeful when you acknowledge that there's awful things too.
The Republican leadership is quite hopeful at this time that they will have wide latitude. [Donald] Trump is a big visionary guy, not a detail guy, obviously. They are preparing to charge ahead with a Republican, a conservative agenda that Paul Ryan talked about a lot on the campaign trail.
We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
You have a bigger view, of something bigger than you, and you have to view that and take that in mind. At times you feel like despair rises up over hope, then other times you feel hopeful again.
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
If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!
I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.
Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves ?Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here ?Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change ?
My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.
America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.
We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.
Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.
She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.