James Nesbitt Quotes

If you begin to give people hope that there is a brighter future, there is a new tomorrow, then the people who were yesterday's terrorists become tomorrow's elected officials and they're part of the system.

As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.

India's history and destiny, India's legacy and future, are a function of coexistence and conciliation, of reform and reconciliation.

On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.

Free societies, which allow differences to speak and be heard, and live by intermarriage, commerce, and free migration, and democratic societies, which convert enemies into adversaries and reconcile differences without resort to violence, are societies in which the genocidal temptation is unlikely and even inconceivable.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

I feel like I have a new life and I'm going to take full advantage of it.

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

Everything can change. You can always have hope.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?

I leave Iraq gladdened by what has been accomplished and confident your future is full of hope.

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

Sectarian divide has created a schism in our society that is a major challenge. As monarch of all Bahrainis, it pains me to see many harmed by the actions of a few. And yet I am optimistic and have faith in our people. We all realize that now is the time to strike a balance between stability and gradual reform.

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

I am looking forward and I am hoping that I will be the catalyst that makes India and Pakistan live for peace forever.

On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency.

We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation.

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

The past is lying in flames. The future will rise from the flames within our hearts.

Peace is hard, but we know that it is possible

We must … show that peace and prosperity can exist side by side.

Predictions of America’s decline are as old as the republic. But they perform a critical function in driving the kind of renewal that is required of each generation of Americans….as long as we’re worried about the future, the future will be better.

We [Taiwan and Mainland China] may not share the same history, but we could have a common destiny and future.