When the people share everything in the state, then will we truly reach the goal of the Min Sheng Principle, which is Confucius’ hope of a ‘great commonwealth.’ – Sun Yat-sen
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future. – Stendhal
There’s certain songs that you’re gonna record that you hope to touch people and change lives, and there’s certain songs that you know that are not going to be that serious. – Tyler Farr
Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. – Stephen Jay Gould
I someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of releasing music. – Sturgill Simpson
The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family. – Townsend Harris
In my stories, I controlled what happened in a way I couldn’t in real life. My characters lived through the horror and degradation of the cruelty of others and they not only survived, they thrived. They gave me hope and laughter, and they kept me going in spite of everything else. They were my heroes. – Sherrilyn Kenyon
Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in Russia and, I hope, will never again be. – Vladimir Putin
