Quotations
'Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.'
Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000
'I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.'
Describing a phone call to Sen. John Breaux. Crawford, Texas, Dec. 2, 2000
'The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.'
Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000
'They misunderestimated me.'
Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
'They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.'
St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000
'The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas.'
-All Things Considered, NPR, June 16, 2000
BUSH: 'First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence day. That's dieciseis de Septiembre, and ...'
MATTHEWS: 'What's that in English?' BUSH: 'Fifteenth of September.' (Dieciseis de Septiembre = Sept. 16)
-Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000
'It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.'
-Reuters, May 5, 2000
'Will the highways on the Internet become more few?'
-Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000
'This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.'
-Speaking during 'PERSEVERENCE Month' at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000
'What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody
else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position.'
-The San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000
'Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?' -Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
'Gov. Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.' -ibid
'I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.'
-U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000
George W Bush
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits
Lillian Hellman
We've had a tough season this time around so it's pleasing to show a bit of form towards the end and hopefully we can take that into next year.
David Sales
If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
Desiderius Erasmus
Hopefully I'll be here for the rest of my career.
Lawrie Sanchez
The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis.
Stephen Jay Gould
In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest
Livy
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Woodrow Wilson
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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.
Mary Wortley
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Edmund Burke
I don't consider stardom to be anything related with me. I hope that the only way this business will ever change me will be (giving me) a good life.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. [Not off a cliff, we hope]
Richard DeVos
Love, hope, fear, faith: these make humanity; These are its' sign and note and character.
Robert Browning Hamilton
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
Herman Melville
[Of General Wolfe] Mad, is he? Then I hope he will bit some of my other generals.
George II
This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
Thomas Mann
Tottenham have a lot of young English players and it's a young squad, it's a squad going forward and that's the direction I wanted to take.
It's exciting times for me and Spurs and hopefully I'll show what I can do.
Darren Bent
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
Henry Miller
A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
Daisaku Ikeda
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya Angelou
They have got to decide how much they want it. Obviously I exclude Andy Murray from any collective criticism as I think he has a fantastic future. [on the desire of the current generation of British tennis hopefuls]
Tim Henman
The cliche is a hackneyed idiom that hopes that it can still palm itself off as a fresh response.
John Gross
It's difficult when we are both in different countries, but obviously we knew that would happen and I hope to come to London some day.
Chelsy Davy
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
B H Liddell Hart
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
Stanley Kubrick
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
Clarence Darrow
There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.
Melissa Etheridge
I won't be able to stop the drinking just like that but I've hopefully cut it in half and if you cut what I drink in half that is a hell of a lot.
Andy Fordham
Hope nothing from foreign governments. They will never be really willing to aid you until you have shown that you are strong enough to conquer without them.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here (Inferno)
Dante Alighieri
I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Yves Saint Laurent
It is an awful thing to say, but if I was a Rover worker I would not be pinning my hopes on a deal by next Monday, I'd be looking for a new job. [on Rover's troubles in April 2005]
Jeff Randall
Keep up hope for a better economy, more jobs, better wages, affordable healthcare and all the issues we have brought into focus.
Bob Clement
They are in the final and from my heart I hope they win it. The night belongs to them and I don't want to criticise them [on Liverpool in Europe]
Jose Mourinho
He is not the hope of a Tory future because he is the reincarnation of a failed Tory past [on Michael Howard]
Tony Blair
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
Albert Camus
Wembley's a class arena and walking out there with just one table and, hopefully, a good audience is something to really cherish
Shaun Murphy
This season's been a non-starter for me but I hope I can have a big impact
Gavin Henson
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
Marie Curie
The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.
Herbert Hoover
I sometimes get birthday cards from fans. But it's often the same message - they hope it's my last.
Al Norman
Travelling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
At this minute I know if Harmy and Simon Jones are fully fit they will just come back into the team, so hopefully I can keep performing well and if the place comes up again I'll fit into that slot.
Liam Plunkett
Looking after two young children keeps me on my toes and hopefully fit enough to cope with the jungle
Kimberley Davies
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
John Gay
Hopefully my personality will shine through and people will not think I am just a pretty face or whatever. I think I still have a few good years in me yet.
Michelle Marsh
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