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• “If any of us hopes to survive, s/he must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.”

  June Jordan (1936–2002) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Case for the Real Majority" (1982), from Moving Towards Home: Political Essays (1989)

• “For a long time I sat still, staring at the passing scenery through which the train was speeding, pondering the loneliness in each individual soul. The struggle of man, alone with the feeble resources of courage at his command, against a universe that cares nothing for his hopes and fears.”

  Anzia Yezierska (1880–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The man whose silent days In harmless joys are spent, Whom hopes cannot delude, Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towers Nor armour for defence, Nor secret vaults to fly From thunder's violence.”

  Thomas Campion (1567–1620) said by 1620 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “But this present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for long. Already there are powerful forces at work that threaten to destroy all of our hopes and efforts to erect an enduring structure of global interdependence.”

  David Rockefeller (1915–2017) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech at the Annual Ambassadors' Dinner, September 14, 1994.

• “[W]e who base our confidence and our hopes on the Parliamentary system—New institutions have often a disturbed, if not a stormy youth. The Duma will revive in one form or another. We can say with all sincerity, “The Duma is dead; long live the Duma.”

  Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836–1908) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech to the opening of the 14th Inter-Parliamentary Conference in the Royal Gallery of Westminster Palace (23 July 1906), quoted in The Times (24 July 1906), p. 3

• “One Two Three Four Tell me that you love me more Sleepless, long nights That was what my youth was for Old teenage hopes are alive at your door Left you with nothing But they want some more.”

  Leslie Feist (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Sweet heart, bitter heart Now I can't tell you apart Cozy and cold Put the horse before the cartThose teenage hopes Who have tears in their eyes Too scared to own up To one little lie.”

  Leslie Feist (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Remembrance of hopes that were silly has an especial tenderness, for much of their silliness came from a thoughtless credulity which we would be glad to have back again.”

  Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.”

  George Washington (1732–1799) first seen 1741 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: General Order (9 July 1776) George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799: Series 3g Varick Transcripts

• “Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause; and I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of the present age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this kind.”

  George Washington (1732–1799) first seen 1792 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter to Sir Edward Newenham (22 June 1792) as published in The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources (1939) as edited by John Clement Fitzpatrick

• “Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes joy.”

  Stanisław Leszczyński (1677–1766) said by 1766 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The child in her wanted to do as she pleased, cling to impossible hopes. The woman in her wanted to make sound decisions, succeed even if it meant sacrifice. The woman would win; that was inevitable. But the child would not go quietly.”

  N. K. Jemisin (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “What of wars we have survived, genocides and hollow costs/holocausts? Have our hopes for humankind like scriptures and mass graves been lost?”

  Dawud Wharnsby (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “There's a lot of things great about life. But I think tomorrow is the most important thing. Comes in to us at midnight very clean, ya know. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.”

  John Wayne (1907–1979) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Playboy interview, May 1971

• “I can't set my hopes too high 'Cause every 'Hello' ends with a 'Goodbye'.”

  Demi Lovato (born 1992) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.”

  Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (1911–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Remind yourself of your vision, keep your hopes close yo your heart, be passionate about them and always, always always be true to them”

  Michael Elmore-Meegan (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “By punishing the criminal the moral man hopes to dissuade the evil imprisoned in his own breast from escaping. Fear of self is projected in hatred of the immoral other.”

  John Carroll (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “A golden age, Londa calls it. She hopes it will return.” “Golden ages rarely return,” I said “especially if they never existed.”

  James K. Morrow (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The desolation of winter sustains our frail hopes. Nature is kindest then; she does not taunt us with fruition. It is the luxury of summer which tantalizes—her long, brilliant, blossoming days, her dewy, radiant nights.”

  Elizabeth Drew Stoddard (1823–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Thy soft-breathed hopes with magic might Have chased from my soul the shades of night”

  Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon (1829–1879) said by 1879 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present.”

  Lawrence K. Frank (1890–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Among other things, we are supposed to spot the toes of clay splaying out from under the pearl-gray spats, or the cloven hoof encased in the jackboot, before anyone else. Cynicism also is the touchstone of a reporter's alchemy through which he hopes to discover that nonexistent load called "objectivity." For as a set of philosophers, the only true objective reporter is the dead one.”

  Bill Downs (1914–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment, But lives at peace, within himself content; In thought, or act, accountable to none But to himself, and to the gods alone.”

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne (1666–1735) first seen 1690 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Epistle to Mrs. Elizabeth Higgons" (1690), line 79, in The Genuine Works in Verse and Prose, Vol. I (London: J. and R. Tonson, 1736), p. 23.

• “In quiet shades, content with rural sports, Give me a life, remote from guilty courts, Where free from hopes, or fears, in humble ease, Unheard of I may live, and die in peace.”

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne (1666–1735) said by 1735 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Religious practice is costly in terms of material sacrifice (at least one's prayer time), emotional expenditure (inciting fears and hopes), and cognitive effort (maintaining both factual and counterintuitive networks of beliefs).”

  Scott Atran (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Empires were like seawalls, he thought sadly, even those which embodied the best of hopes. The tide of chaos beat at them, and as soon as no one was shoring up the stones any more...”

  Tad Williams (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Don Kayman was too good a scientist to confuse his hopes with observations. He would report what he found. But he knew what he wanted to find.”

  Frederik Pohl (1919–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I wish to explore what mad people meant to say, what was on their minds. Their testimonies are eloquent of their hopes and fears, the injustices they suffered, above all of what it was like to be mad or to be thought to be mad... My points of reference, therefore, are language, history and culture.”

  Roy Porter (1946–2002) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: A Social History of Madness: Stories of the Insane (1987), London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

• “If someone is at the centre of these elections, it is 130 crore people of India. This election is not about one individual, but about hopes, expectations and aspirations of 130 crore individuals. People of India have seen obstacles of past 55 years and they have seen optimism of our 55 months. They have seen 55 years of Family First and 55 months of India First.”

  Narendra Modi (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I poured my heart and soul into the role of Chandramukhi. In my view, hers was the greater character (compared with Paro's). One scene that will forever be etched in my memory is the one in which Devdas takes leave of Chandramukhi, saying that he hopes he will meet her again, 'if not in this lifetime, then in the next'.”

  Vyjayanthimala (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Your happiness on the contrary is quite secure because you place it entirely in making others happy and doing those things to the utmost of your power which you can afterwards reflect upon with satisfaction. I must own your letter had that effect upon me that it made me apply to my work with double eagerness and alacrity with the hopes of being some time what you are at present.”

  Joseph Black (1728–1799) said by 1799 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets you unforeseen Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.”

  John Conington (1825–1869) said by 1869 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Who hopes by strange variety to please, Puts dolphins among forests, boars in seas.”

  John Conington (1825–1869) said by 1869 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I am guilty that I raised your hopes about wedding, marriage, children and family, and many other things.”

  Ziad Jarrah (1975–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “That's a pretty clear warning. And a pretty good sign that American intelligence remains steadfast on this issue and, one hopes, more broadly in its commitment to objective truth. It's also a pretty good sign that phase four in the relationship between the IC and the president will be lengthy, contentious, divisive, and unpredictable. Stand by.”

  Michael Hayden (general) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “To present universal Nature as the deep in which each soul with its moral hopes is to be engulfed, is to transform existence into a system of radical and irremediable evil, and thus to make genuine religion impossible;”

  George Holmes Howison (1834–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I started lessons when I was three and a half. In the beginning I just played a little but, when I was five, I played my first recital, and from that point my parents had high hopes for me; especially my father.”

  Lang Lang (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “But while in these first years the prospects of success are apt to seem remote and high hopes seem doomed to frustration, the worst thing to do is to eat one's heart out in idleness. There are many occupations which can be devised to improve one's fitness to profit by the chance when it does come.”

  Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan (1873–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “This Parliament exists - and always will - to serve the people and to provide national leadership which reflects their hopes, addresses their fears and raises their aspirations. It is a Parliament which the people demanded. It is also a Parliament of which the people make demands.”

  Alex Salmond (1954–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I... propose that time and its passage are fundamental and real and the hopes and beliefs about timeless truths and timeless realms are mythology.”

  Lee Smolin (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The Islamists killed Benazir Bhutto as they killed her father. But they shouldn’t be allowed to kill Pakistan’s hopes for democracy.”

  Amir Taheri (born 1942) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Bhutto assassination: Democracy must go on", New York Post (December 28, 2007).

• “It is not, however, the unfamiliarity or strangeness of a work or of a composer's manner that is a bar to understanding, but rather the disappearance of the familiar, the ongoing disappointment of the expectations and hopes fostered by the musical tradition in which we have grown up.”

  Charles Rosen (1927–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The most signal triumphs of the Romantic portrayal of memory are not those which recall past happiness, but remembrances of those moments when future happiness still seemed possible, when hopes were not yet frustrated.”

  Charles Rosen (1927–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The siege warfare of the Middle Ages consisted of blockading the castle in hopes of destroying it or taking it over for one’s own use. In peacetime castles controlled the surrounding land, but when hostilities broke out they provided passive resistance and served as a base of operations.”

  Marilyn Stokstad (1929–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “By a pardonable abridgment of history, the Rationalist character may be seen springing from the exaggeration of Bacon's hopes and the neglect of the scepticism of Descartes; modern Rationalism is what commonplace minds made out of the inspiration of men of discrimination and genius.”

  Michael Oakeshott (1901–1990) said by 1990 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We shall get a sufficient quantity of provisions over to-day for the garrison at Fort Washington. General Mifflin thinks it not advisable to pull the barracks down yet. lie has hopes of our army returning to that ground for winter-quarters. I think this would be running too great a risk to leave them standing in expectation of such an event.”

  Nathanael Greene (1742–1786) said by 1786 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Our approaches were pushed on with great spirit, while we had any hopes of the fleet cooperating with us; but the people lost all relish for digging, after that. People are very anxious to hear the issue of General Lee's trial. Various are the conjectures; but everybody agrees he is not acquitted.”

  Nathanael Greene (1742–1786) said by 1786 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “When people's hopes and expectations are built up only to be demolished, they become a lot harder to motivate.”

  John Hoover (consultant) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The Polish scumbag called “duda” suggested shooting Russia like a rabid beast. Does anyone still have hopes for talks with such bastards? Makes no sense. This s*** is well worth a bullet. In the 18th century, the brute would simply be brought to the Red Square, and pitilessly executed by quartering. But we are humanists. We’ll take our revenge in a different way.”

  Dmitry Medvedev (born 1965) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Written on Twitter about Andrzej Duda, president in Poland, quoted in "Russia's Medvedev suggests Polish president deserves to be executed", Jerusalem Post, 24 June 2023

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