Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.
— Vijay Singh
I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.
— Viggo Mortensen
We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.
— Victoria Osteen
When I go to a concert, I can't help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts.
— Victoria Justice
I think there's a lot of people going through different things where you feel like your whole world's imploded, and you feel like you lost it all, whether it's physical, emotional, whatever you're going through. If I can be that beacon of hope for people that need it the most through dancing and through our storytelling, then I've done my job.
— Victoria Arlen
I love to swim, and what I have been able to do - give people hope.
When you're growing up, it's always nice to have someone you can relate and look up to. I'm proud of how I conduct my business and how I have accomplished all that I have accomplished, and hope that I can be a positive influence on not only the Mexican community but also young boxers and people all around the world.
— Victor Ortiz
A multilateral world trade system is our very best hope for addressing the broad range of issues such as market access, tariff and nontariff barriers to trade, trade in services, and trade facilitation.
— Victor Fung
There's a lot of times when I feel nihilistic, and lose hope, like I'm just lost in the world. But there's a lot of times when I can kinda be in control of destiny.
— Vic Mensa
I'd rather be called a good actor than be labelled a good-looking guy. I have been working towards it all along, and I hope to be able to go far ahead, because that's my foremost goal.
— Varun Tej
Like, literally, when you get the script, you're like, 'Whoa, I hope the Black Hood isn't after me.' I guess we'll find out.
— Vanessa Morgan
One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.
— Valerie Plame
I certainly hope that we can all continue to be forces for good after leaving the White House.
— Valerie Jarrett
The great hope for a quick and sweeping transition to renewable energy is wishful thinking.
— Vaclav Smil
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
— Vaclav Havel
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
I hope I never get complacent and continue to give my 100% to every film I make.
— Vikramaditya Motwane
As a filmmaker what you can hope to do is doing what drives you.
— Vijay Krishna Acharya
I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't.
There are a lot of times that we feel like our hands are tied - 'I have no control over if I'm going to lose my job.' 'I have no control over if I'm going to be able to pay my bills.' You've got to realize that that's where your trust comes in. You have to trust God, and keep your hope, because your hope is what produces your faith.
So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.
— Victoria Jackson
I will use my voice to change the world, spreading hope, spreading love, and spreading life, 'cause the world needs that. That's enough for me.
The big thing for me is just continuing to be a beacon of hope. And showing people that nothing is impossible.
I am very proud of the fact that I get to go out there every day and train in order to represent the Mexican people, and I can only hope they look up to me in a similar fashion.
This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.
— Victor Davis Hanson
I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.
— Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.
— Vanilla Ice
I thought, 'If I go to uni, I can read and watch people and take many different subjects - take philosophy modules - and have time to travel in the summers,' which I did. I thought, 'I hope this will make me a better actor,' and it did.
— Vanessa Kirby
After President Obama's election in 2008, there was a widespread hope that it would mark an end to unseemly partisan nastiness.
I am a cancer patient, and I continue to fight with the hope that a cure may be just around the corner. I am grateful to my family, friends, loved ones, and to fans that I am in their thoughts and prayers. That support gives me great hope.
— Valerie Harper
Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
I believe in throwing a lot of positive energy in the universe and hope for the best.
— Vaani Kapoor
I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.
— Vijender Singh
My first film was more of a light-hearted chor-police drama. 'Dhoom 2' focused more on the love story of two unconventional people. 'Dhoom 3' too is different, I hope.
Children touch all of our lives. We all have the opportunity to sow seeds into the next generation, and there's nothing more important that we can leave on this earth than a legacy of faith, hope, and confidence in our God.
I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.
My hope is to be the first disabled swimmer on an able-bodied team at the Y Nationals.
At some points, hope was the only thing I had. When I began my journey toward walking again, I clung to hope like a life raft.
I hope Greece is going to remain in the Euro zone.
— Victor Ponta
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
— Victor Hugo
If I walked into a restaurant, the other diners would look around and say, 'I hope you're not cooking.'
— Vic Tayback
I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
— Veerappa Moily
I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?
— Vanessa Paradis
I hope by the time I'm 30 to have a husband and maybe a baby.
— Vanessa Hudgens
How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
I hope people will say, 'Mr. Valentino, he did something for fashion, no?'
— Valentino Garavani
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
