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“Keynes ultimately placed his hopes for good government in exceptional men. The focus in Hayek’s work was rules.”
Alan O. Ebenstein (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thus, whether it be wit or beauty that a man’s in love with, there are no great hopes of a lasting happiness; beauty, with all the helps of arts, is of no long date; the more it is , the sooner it decays; and he, who only or chiefly chose for beauty, will in a little time find the same reason for another choice.”
Mary Astell (1666–1731) said by 1731 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for. Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes. Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.”
Alan Paton (1903–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Such hopes now seemed ludicrous in their naivety, like trying to stop a bulldozer with a feather.”
Alastair Reynolds (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I so detached my heart from the world and cut short my hopes that for thirty years now I have performed each prayer as though it were my last and I were praying the prayer of farewell.”
Rabia of Basra (710–801) said by 801 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: as quoted in Early Islamic Mysticism (New York: Paulist Press: 1996), p. 165
“I am a man who believes nothing, hopes nothing, fears nothing, feels nothing. I am beyond the pale of humanity [...]”
Olive Schreiner (1855–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The most interesting of the services rendered by science is perhaps shown by comparing the servile and miserable condition of the popular masses in the past with their present state, already so much raised in dignity and comfort, without prejudice to the hopes which they are gradually realising.”
Marcellin Berthelot (1827–1907) said by 1907 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In order to call for a focus on the general elections, I am choosing not to offer myself as the candidate for prime minister. In hopes of amassing all strengths in a team to go against UMNO-BN, it is fair to ensure the participation of all leaders effectively. This includes benefiting from the position and role of Mahathir Mohamad.”
Anwar Ibrahim (born 1947) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anwar Ibrahim (2017) cited in: "Anwar Ibrahim, Jailed Malaysian Opposition Leader, Withdraws as PM Candidate" in VOA, 17 June 2017.
“Everybody, I think, who hopes to become a judge would aspire to be able to write as well as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. None are going to be able to attain that. But I’ll try at least — if confirmed to be as brief and pithy as he is.”
Merrick Garland (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is clear, by their own account, and therefore requires no further proof, that the apostles and all the disciples were induced by ambitious motives, by hopes of future wealth and power, lands and worldly goods, to follow Jesus as their Messiah and king.”
Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694–1768) said by 1768 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It would not be incorrect to say that all capital is invisible value, in that it is the present value, not of physical things, but of the hopes of the future aroused through confidence in the now invisible but expected transactions of the future.”
John R. Commons (1862–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They scolded us for not having any real hopes or real ambitions, but if we were to pursue our true ideals, would these people watch and guide us along the way?”
Osamu Dazai (1909–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have hopes about that because the process which has continued for many years must lead to a peaceful resolution. But of course it will depend on the willingness of Armenia to comply to international law norms, to withdraw the troops from the international recognized territories of Azerbaijan, and then peace will be established”
Ilham Aliyev (born 1961) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Euronews interview on issue of Nagorno-Karabakh (02 February 2010)
“Prince Wilhelm justifies our very best hopes for the future. He will grow into the right man to maintaain Germany's power–perhaps to increase it.”
Alfred von Waldersee (1832–1904) first seen 1884 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Waldersee in his diary, 28 May 1884
“The work began with great zeal and the most roseate hopes. A splendid summer and an eventful winter marked the year of 1923! The newly resumed trade relations were in full swing: Russian corn and Norwegian herring and fish, Russian wood products and Norwegian paper and cellulose.”
Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This election is about you, your hopes, your dreams, your fears, and what wakes you up at 3 a.m. That’s what I care about and what I am fighting for.”
Kamala Harris (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is spoken of as a clinical picture is not just a photograph of a sick man in bed; it is an impressionistic painting of the patient surrounded by his home, his work, his relations, his friends, his joys, sorrows, hopes and fears. Now all of this background of sickness which bears so strongly on the symptomatology is liable to be lost sight of in the hospital.”
Francis Peabody (1881–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This ego-maniac firebrand is running through a world full of war-explosives, applying his torch wherever he may, hoping for nothing so much as a new world war from which alone he sees his hopes of glory and power.”
Earl Browder (1891–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“…I know Jim Crow, I understand that time period. It’s a 100-year time period that was rife with lots of violence and anger, and people with lost dreams and hopes. I wanted the frustration and that anger to be more palpable.”
Viola Davis (born 1965) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On why she felt that her role in The Help was too filtered in “Viola Davis: 'I stifled who I was to be seen as pretty. I lost years'” in The Guardian (2018 Oct 20)
“Relatives, colleagues, friends, and marriage partners, understandably threatened by these changes, often exert pressure on the individual...These pressures only widen the gap. You don't stop an immigrant by trying to revive his hopes for the Old World.”
Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Taipei Mayor Ko hopes to make Taipei the world's most Muslim-friendly tourist spot, and we (Taipei City Government) are approaching that goal step-by-step.”
Tsai Ping-kun (born 1959) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tsai Ping-kun (2021) cited in "Taipei looking forward to Muslim tourists when borders open: official" on Focus Taiwan, 14 December 2021.
“Johnson likes, of course, to see himself in the mould of Sir Winston Churchill, but he should go off and read what that great man was doing between 1945 and '50. In that period, he realised the best hopes he had for the United Kingdom could only be achieved in cooperation with our European partners.”
Dominic Grieve (born 1956) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From an interview, as cited in "Dominic Grieve: 'Boris is a shallow populist'", The New European (10 October 2018).
“So what use are we? Burnside hopes to die exhausted in a cathouse, with the sweet-sweet taste of bourbon on his tongue. My own ambition is less raunchy. I want, at age ninety, to be gunned down while storming the Congress.”
Jack Cady (1932–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The problem now (after East Timor independence from Indonesia referendum) is that we the East Timorese are without means. We are so dependent, we feel very small and fragile. But I have confidence that this will not last too long. We have hopes that after the (United Nations-backed) transitional period, we can rebuild our country.”
Xanana Gusmão (born 1946) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Xanana Gusmão (1999) cited in: "An interview with "Xanana" Gusmao" in Taipei Times, 13 November 1999.
“Leaving the EU would destroy young people's hopes of getting on the housing ladder”
Tim Farron (born 1970) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: EU referendum: Vote Leave in housing appeal to young BBC News (2 June 2016)
“An author focuses on a few individual characters, and hopes that a larger frisson of emotion and revelation comes across to the reader. (1996)”
Bharati Mukherjee (1940–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hunger drove Francis to work as a clerical officer in the post office. Adah's hopes rose. This might save the marriage after all.”
Buchi Emecheta (1944–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On New Year's Day, 1939, while Trinidadians who had money or hopes of winning money were attending the races in the Queen's Park Savannah, Port of Spain, a number of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution in Europe landed on the island.”
Sam Selvon (1923–1994) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: beginning of A Brighter Sun (1952 novel)
“I was not really of the barrio, but the barrio was an important part of my life. Spanish was my first language; English was the language of my reading world. This was the world I lived in—an idealistic world, and unreal world that filled my senses with hopes, with joy and identification…”
Estela Portillo-Trambley (1936–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fiction fosters empathy among readers by putting them in a position to consider deeply someone’s history, hopes, and ambitions…”
Vanessa Hua (born 1975) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On how fiction might differ from her journalist works in “Motherhood and Migration: An Interview with Vanessa Hua on ‘A River of Stars’” in Los Angeles Review of Books (September 13, 2018)
“in those days, I fed my hopes of freedom in whichever way I could, without realizing that I was only hooking myself to different lures. (p88)”
Laila Lalami (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A writer often wants to change a reader’s perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work through character, so helping the reader to feel close to fictional characters is the gate through which we have to usher the reader. I am one of those writers who hopes to use character as a way of introducing the reader to a new way of thinking about the world.”
Caryl Phillips (born 1958) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On how writing might make a political or social statement in “CARYL PHILLIPS: INTERVIEW” in Mosaic Magazine (2012 Mar 19)
“And I am even sicker of politicians who wrap themselves in the bloody flag and try to rub off some of the stench of death from the bodies of those who have died, mostly in vain for worthless causes, in hopes that taking on some of the odor will cause them to be perceived as admirable patriots themselves.”
Dave Lindorff (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are ephemeral beings on a tiny planet in one of hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe (or perhaps the multiverse)—a cosmos that is coldly indifferent to the insignificant specks that we are. It is indifferent to our fortunes and misfortunes, to injustice, to our hopes, fears, values, and concerns. The forces of nature and the cosmos are blind.”
David Benatar (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'The wise lamb does not enrage the lion,' he said. 'It placates him, plays for time, and hopes for the best.'”
John Wyndham (1903–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She showed all that maternal solicitude which so oddly hopes that its child will be outstanding while being absolutely normal, distinguished while being indistinguishable.”
John Wyndham (1903–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In good hopes.”
Chilon of Sparta (600–520 BC) said by 520 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The succession of events since 1914 has swept away so many illusions that even a summary inspection of the heap of ideological ruins would demand the compilation of a veritable encyclopaedia. The summer of 1914 witnessed the collapse of all those hopes which had been built on a peaceful evolution of the capitalist world, and it also witnessed the breakdown of .”
Lucien Laurat (1898–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power 18 years ago pledging "" for torture. For a while, it seemed sincere. [...] Such hopes now lie in tatters.”
Amberin Zaman (born 2000) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On torture during the , Torture on the rise in Erdogan’s Turkey (July 31, 2020),
“In Darr, SRK says that his height is 5’9" or 5’10", so I wanted to be 5’9", at least. I used to pray to God every day, ki bhagwan meri height 5’9" kar do. My father is 5’5" and my mother is about the same. So my hopes were really meagre. And then, I grew to five-nine-and-a-half! I was over the moon. I always knew that I had the talent, but height was a bit of a gamble.”
Ayushmann Khurrana (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A number of people go into this industry with the same dreams and hopes that everybody else has, but it just doesn’t happen for some people. A lot of times it’s not anything they did wrong. It just that the numbers are what they are and luck is what it is. So I feel extremely blessed and lucky every day that I’m able to make a living as an actor.”
Nick Searcy (born 1959) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Boss Man: Interview with Justified's Nick Searcy (February 21, 2013)
“Why was it that he didn't know a thing about the underlying nature of people, the shadows and shifts, the hungers and hopes that caused them to do the things they did?”
Tim Winton (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't speak about diversity and just have us there because you want to make it look like it's diverse. Meaningful representation, that's what it's all about, where the characters have real hopes and dreams and lives and it's very sincere to the culture.”
Michelle Yeoh (born 1962) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Michelle Yeoh Hopes Crazy Rich Asians Will Turn the Trickle of Diversity in Hollywood "Into a Stream" " in Harper's Bazaar (27 August 2018)
“If, fourteen years ago, he had entertained secret hopes of leaving a discernible, enduring mark on the legacy of humankind, he was now fully disabused of them.”
Charles E. Gannon (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The universe contemplated by religion is by no means self-contained or self-sufficient, it is dependent for its origin and maintenance, as we are for daily bread and future hopes, upon the power and good-will of a being or beings of which science has no knowledge.”
John Neville Figgis (1866–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I am a young girl or a young boy, l think of the same hopes, the same aspirations as every other child, as every other woman, as every other man.”
Grace Mumbi Ngugi wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am the first woman in Kenya to take this office but because every time a member of the marginalised group breaks a barrier, they hold a space for the dreams and hopes of others.”
Martha Koome (born 1960) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: CJ Martha Koome Quotes US VP Kamala Harris: ‘I Am The First, But Not The Last’", Citizen Digital (May 22, 2021)
“The Frankenstein of Communism is the product of the Jewish mind, and was turned loose upon the world by the son of a Rabbi, Karl Marx, in the hopes of destroying Christian civilization — as well as others.”
Kenneth Goff (1914–1972) said by 1972 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Exploring the infinitely small particles to better protect our planet and understand its major challenges is essential, so that our decisions live up to the hopes of future generations.”
Stéphane Valeri (born 1962) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stéphane Valeri (2021) cited in: "High Level Visit to IAEA Monaco Laboratories Highlights Nuclear Techniques to Protect People, the Ocean" in International Atomic Energy Agency, 4 March 2021.
“We have good hopes that God will grant us to restore the authority over the remaining countries which the ancient Romans possessed to the limit of both oceans and lost by subsequent neglect.”
Justinian I (482–565) said by 565 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source