The Lantos Human Rights Prize is intended to serve as a beacon of hope, justice and human decency in a world too often covered in a shroud of darkness.
— Joshua Wong
I wanted to resist in 'The Look of Silence' making a film that ends with any kind of positive hope I feel in human rights documentaries dealing with human survivors.
— Joshua Oppenheimer
One of my defining beliefs is that Jesus Christ has taken all of my guilt before God, and that he has been raised from the dead. That gives incredible hope and meaning to every day of my life - that nothing done in this world is wasted when it's done for him and his glory, and that there will be a day of justice and reward for the entire world.
— Joshua Harris
I really, really love new work, and that's why, you know, I produced a concert series supporting new musicals and stuff like that. I hope to do more things like that.
— Josh Young
I think as working actors, it's like sales. You're only as good as your last sale, so you put your all into something and you just hope that from that you can get your next job.
— Josh Peck
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
— Josh Billings
Don't be sensitive if I should, in future, seem brusque, harsh, or even unjust in my criticism. I sincerely hope I never shall be; but if I should, remember that fault-finding is perhaps both my privilege and my weakness, that correction is the only road to improvement, and that my quick temper and illness are entitled to some consideration.
— Joseph Pulitzer
Well, by the end of the millennium, five, six months from now, we hope to somehow manage to move into a new location where we have the whole building, so we can devote space to all our activities.
— Joseph Jarman
By and large, prisons are survivable, though hope is indeed what you need least upon entering here; a lump of sugar would be more useful.
— Joseph Brodsky
Charity can be the outward expression of faith and hope.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
— Joseph Addison
But, you know, once you're in government, very often you need to shoulder responsibility. I hope the new Spanish government will think about this and will therefore act accordingly. I really and sincerely hope so.
— Jose Maria Aznar
Serie A will always be one of the best leagues in the world. I hope to go back one day.
— Jorginho
There are different pressures when you come to a club like Liverpool. You have to perform well each week, or people start to question you, and I discovered that as soon as I got here. It was a difficult time, but I hope I got stronger from coping with it.
— Jordan Henderson
I hope I can just be a regular human being to people.
— Jordan Fisher
Early on with Squeeze, we played the Hope & Anchor with U2. Three people turned up. Then two left. Then the last person left. That's the least-attended show I've ever done.
— Jools Holland
I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you. I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated.
— Jonathan Winters
I hope to make clear that involvement in small scale community work can make a difference in our city's politics.
I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.
— Joshua Lederberg
Say you're an American novelist, published by the largest publishing house in the world. Their goal is to make as much money from you as possible, to have as many people read your book in as many formats as possible. How can you hope to speak intimately to the numbers of people that represent the book sales required?
— Joshua Cohen
There are a few things for the New York actor that you hope to one day cross off the bucket list. One of them was I got to do an episode of 'Blue Bloods,' which was really fun.
— Josh Segarra
Truth is, I love all the horror guys and girls: Gord Rollo, Shirley Jackson, Harlan Ellison, Ramsey Campbell, Dan Simmons, Thomas Ligotti. Each one of them brings something wonderfully different and, because I love the genre, I love those who love the genre, too. And I hope the genre ends up loving me back.
— Josh Malerman
A life being enacted onstage is a thing of utter fascination for me. And acting, it may begin out of vanity, but you hope that it's taken over by something else. I hope I've climbed over the vanity hurdle.
— Joseph Wiseman
In boxing, some fighters have good chins. You just have to be persistent and continue following the plan and trying to catch them nicely and, obviously, hope to be knocking him out.
— Joseph Parker
There are always going to be times when it doesn't flow as much as you were hoping. So of course I'm going to fail. And when I do fail I hope I fail better and better, again and again. I am happy to fail.
— Joseph Fiennes
I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.
— Joseph Barbera
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
I may be what my enemies desire me to be, yet never an accusation are they able to hurl against me which makes me blush or lower my forehead; and I hope that God will be merciful enough with me, to prevent me from committing one of those faults which would involve my family.
— Jose Rizal
My dream was to be a celebrity, to be on TV like Bob Hope was.
— Jose Feliciano
I love being able to sing for my job. I am blessed beyond words and I hope my fans can feel that while I'm on stage!
— Jordin Sparks
For me, Raheem Sterling is a fantastic player, and he's been brilliant for England. I hope he will stay at Liverpool.
I'm not a big guy that watches technique from my opponents. I try to do what I do best and hope that my stuff is better than their best stuff.
— Jordan Burroughs
I hope that it can relate to and be a blessing to anybody, with the hope that someday they will find Jesus Christ to be the same God that I've found Him to be.
— Jonny Lang
I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you.
And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.
— Joshua Slocum
My hope is always to be able to find well-written, interesting material with good people and then actually be able to get those jobs.
— Joshua Jackson
I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.
— Joshua Bell
No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.
— Josh Radnor
Hope is the most exciting thing in life, and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away, there is still that chance all through your life that it will.
— Josh Hartnett
One can only hope that America, and other countries, will not need more natural persuasion before taking to heart the lessons of Hurricane Harvey.
— Joseph Stiglitz
I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.
— Joseph Kosinski
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
— Joseph Conrad
Even when we make mistakes, we hope others will love us in spite of our shortcomings - even if we don't deserve it.
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
The youth is the hope of our future.
Ultimately, all the fans hope for is that their team wins and that the players give their all. So if you work hard, leave everything out on the pitch and achieve good results, then these are all of the necessary ingredients to make sure you are liked.
African-American music tends to have, at the very least, a glimmer of hope to it - sometimes full-fledged hope.
— Jordan Peele
I hope that one day, the world gets to a place where you don't need to politicize your sexuality any more than someone needs to politicize their race - that we can just act and we can exist in this Zeitgeist, telling stories about one another.
— Jordan Gavaris
I'm not afraid to tell people what I hope to accomplish and what I believe I'm capable of. I'm ready to take the backlash if I don't accomplish my dreams.
My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn't mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But it's good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.
— Joni Mitchell
