I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.

I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.

People want to feel hopeful.

I think on civilian casualties they could do more. It's actually something I've discussed with the editors involved. They're aware of it, and I'm hopeful that there will be more reporting on that.

So people are ready. I feel hopeful in that sense.

I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.

Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.

I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.

I go from being hugely hopeful and entertaining to... really not. I'm not manic depressive, but I can really go to the darker side.

I'm a hopeful cynic.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

I've always been hopeful about Scotland's prospects. And I now believe more than ever that Scotland is within touching distance of achieving independence and equality.

Every time you start a project, you're hopeful that the critics receive it warmly.

I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful, loving and redemptive qualities in all of us.

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.

Now you watch the parades and processions of hopeful and despairing people walking outside your tomb. They are all looking for the answer to the problem you know so well.

You have to be hopeful that people will be more educated in how they buy things, and hopefully more luxury brands will start to think that way on a longer-term basis.

Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.

We are hopeful that the North Koreans can show a little bit more realism, a little bit more flexibility.

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.