People Quotes

I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.

~ James Herriot

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

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

~ Jim Henson

Being an astronaut is a wonderful career. I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they're passionate about, something that's challenging and worthwhile.

~ Ellen Ochoa

When I go to see people, I always kind of hope they are going to play some kind of songs I know. So you've got to know your audience. It's kind of something that is a blessing and a curse in a way. You're obligated to play some of that stuff that people know, but I don't think that's all you have to do.

~ Tom Petty

I hope I'm saving lives. There are very few people in their careers that have the opportunity to do something to benefit mankind.

~ Stephanie Kwolek

No, I'm not interested in politics. I have zero interest. I have interest in hope and people.

~ Jay-Z

All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead.

~ Will Ferrell

I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists.

~ Marquis De Condorcet

I hope what I do and what I just did inspires people around the world to reach for the skies.

~ Nik Wallenda

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

~ Tom Waits

There are smart people on our side of the aisle who have known as early as I did who Obama was and should have been saying 'I hope this guy fails' right along with me. There should have been opposition to this guy all along.

~ Rush Limbaugh

Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.

~ Bell Hooks

The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the passage from Isaiah: 'I have come to set free the prisoners and restore sight to the blind.' And certainly, his mission is also to bring hope. It was to heal people, to befriend the outcast.

~ Dan Wakefield

When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it's a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people.

~ Paula Deen

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

~ John Dryden

People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they're right.

~ David Brudnoy

I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.

~ Pope John Paul Ii

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

~ Studs Terkel

For too long people have backed companies on hope value rather than solid products coming out. Now we are coming out the other side.

~ Daniel Morgan

I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've told a lot of stories about young people, and I always feel there's hope.

~ Joel Schumacher

Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.

~ Dan Abrams

I just hope people don't get sick of us. I'm sick of us and I'm in Destiny's Child.

~ Beyoncé Knowles

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

~ Will Durant

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

~ Gore Vidal

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

~ Fran Lebowitz

If you begin to give people hope that there is a brighter future, there is a new tomorrow, then the people who were yesterday's terrorists become tomorrow's elected officials and they're part of the system.

~ John Shelby Spong

I don't know. I have incredible amounts of hope that things can change. It takes people who believe.

~ Morgan Spurlock

The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.

~ Charles Bradlaugh

I hope people will say, 'Mr. Valentino, he did something for fashion, no?'

~ Valentino Garavani

Because they're my stories, they're my version of events of the past three years. But I really hope people can hear their own stories within the songs and they can become our version of events.

~ Emeli Sande

When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology... Hope and faith are so connected. Now, when ideology connects with faith, the ideology becomes an item of faith, not a point of discussion.

~ Alfonso Cuaron

I'm really excited that 'The Other Woman' did so well at the box office, and I hope that will keep encouraging people to make movies about women, starring women, about female friendships. More. Please.

~ Gillian Jacobs

If 'Married With Children' hadn't come out when it did, would we really be looking at 'Roseanne,' 'The Middle,' and 'Raising Hope' and being, like, 'Look at how stereotypical they are to lower-income white people!'

~ Parvesh Cheena

I hope people understand that when you tax corporations that the concrete and the steel and the plastic don't pay. People pay. And so when you tax corporations, either the employees are going to pay or the shareholders are going to pay or the customers are going to pay. And so corporations are people.

~ Mitt Romney

I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

~ Joel Osteen

One thing I can't do, and I hope that there are other people out there that feel the same way, is climb a rope. Oh my gosh, it's so hard to climb rope! It's all about grip and arms.

~ Katy Perry

A lot of people, to attack an outspoken atheist, one of the things they'll do is say, 'You are as bad as the fundamentalist Christians.' And my answer is always, 'I hope so.'

~ Penn Jillette

I think people are dreaming big because they have the tools to dream big. I hope that people are dreaming big because it makes them feel good about their lives.

~ Peter Diamandis

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

~ James A. Baldwin