"We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end." ― William Hague Topic(s): Hope More From William Hague "To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you’ve been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms." "At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity." "I’m not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique." More In Hope "I don’t think I’m a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films."― Spike Lee "But, actually, so many of the clerics that I’ve met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society."― Rowan Atkinson "Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they’re better than other human beings."― James A. Baldwin