It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

It is only by the rational use of technology to control and guide what technology is doing that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations the same hopes and fears to which the Bible addresses itself it might rival it in distribution.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

I have no money no resources no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

There is hardly any activity any enterprise which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations and yet which fails so regularly as love.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

If it were not for hopes the heart would break.

From sixteen to twenty all women kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions appear to be good-natured.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed hope has to be maintained.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

Hope... is the companion of power and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

One must always hope when one is desperate and doubt when one hopes.

My hopes are not always realized but I always hope.

I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

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

A strong mind always hopes and has always cause to hope.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust its sole ammunition the collective hopes of our society.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth those sanguine groundless hopes and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

My parents were not very happy. They were very worried about me pursuing a career that even if I had talent might not give me the happiness and the success that they - any parent hopes for their child.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Great hopes make great men.

I always entertain great hopes.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998 paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.