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“Sound, jocund strains; on pipe and viol sound, Young voices sing; Wreathe every door with snow-white garlands round, For lo! 'tis Spring! Winter has passed with its sad funeral train, And hope revives again.”
Lewis Morris (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And o'er them the lighthouse looked lovely as hope,— That star of life's tremulous ocean.”
Paul Moon James (1780–1854) said by 1854 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Beacon, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“What message, years of conflagration, have you: madness or hope? On thin cheeks strained by war and liberation bloody reflections still remain.”
Alexander Blok (1880–1921) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Those Born in Years of Stagnation" (1914); translation from Jon Stallworthy and Peter France (trans.) The Twelve, and Other Poems (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970) p. 139.
“Who in life’s battle firm doth stand Shall bear hope’s tender blossoms Into the silent land!”
Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis (1762–1834) said by 1834 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Silent Land", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Also quoted by: J. G. Von Salis
“Right now the Jews are still surrounded by enemies who are sworn to their death as a nation. Their only hope is to turn to God with their whole heart, and if they obey Him, they will have victory. Only time will tell us if they have learned anything from history.”
Ray Comfort (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me, I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together, and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.”
Miley Cyrus (born 1992) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reuters (April 22, 2008)
“The pictures of me on the Internet were silly, inappropriate shots. I appreciate all the support of my fans, and hope they understand that along the way I am going to make mistakes and I am not perfect. I never intended for any of this to happen, and I am truly sorry if I have disappointed anyone. Most of all, I have let myself down. I will learn from my mistakes and trust my support team.”
Miley Cyrus (born 1992) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: MTV.com (April 29, 2008)
“I'm a Brad Pitt fan as an actor. I don't necessarily think he's good-looking. If I tell you guys who I think are cute, they're lame people. Like, I think Harry Connick Jr. is so cute. In 'Hope Floats' or 'P.S. I Love You,' isn't he the cutest? Yeah, he is. I think Gerard Butler is 'Oh, my God.'”
Miley Cyrus (born 1992) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: MTV (March 5, 2009)
“Plato, despair! We prove by norms How numbers bear Empiric forms, How random wrong Will average right If time be long And error slight, But in our hearts Hyperbole Curves and departs To infinity. Error is boundless. Nor hope nor doubt, Though both be groundless, Will average out.”
J. V. Cunningham (1911–1985) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Meditation on Statistical Method”, 1960, in The Exclusions of a Rhyme: Poems and Epigrams, Ohio University Press, 1960.
“In what a delightful communion with God does that man live who habitually seeketh love! With the same mantle thrown over him from the cross—with the same act of amnesty, by which we hope to be saved—injuries the most provoked, and transgressions the most aggravated, are covered in eternal forgetfulness.”
Elias Lyman Magoon (1810–1886) said by 1886 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The great ideas are always emerging, to be available to all men and women. And one hope of our lives is the communication of these truths.”
Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am keen to earn some money.. ..beginning to lose all hope.. .What I see most clearly is that my situation in impossible from every point of view.”
Berthe Morisot (1841–1895) first seen 1872 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quote in her letter to sister Edma, circa 1872/73, after Manet had forgotten to show one of her paintings to art-dealer Durand-Ruel; as cited in The Correspondence of Berthe Morisot, with her family and friends, Denish …
“I saw the passers-by on the avenue clearly and simply, in the way they are in Japanese prints [she saw some earlier, together with Mary Casatt in the 'Ecole des Beaux Arts', Paris]. I was thrilled, I knew definitely why I had been painting badly and why I would never paint that way again. I mean to say, I am fifty years old and once a year at least I have the same joy and the same hope.”
Berthe Morisot (1841–1895) first seen 1891 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Berthe Morisot, Jan. 1891; in 'Carnet Noir'; as cited in Berthe Morisot by Monique Angoulvent, Morance, Paris, 1933, p. 97
“...we know instantly whenever anyone touches our data—and who touched it. That’s the best one can hope for in a technologically advanced society.”
Daniel Suarez (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Without respite he is dragged by the two wild horses, memory and hope; and he is tormented by a secret that he never can tell.”
Hope Mirrlees (1887–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And secondly, I certainly hope that if there is going to be an indictment that says something happened, that it is an indictment on a crime and not some perjury technicality where they couldn't indict on the crime and so they go to something just to show that their two years of investigation was not a waste of time and taxpayer dollars.”
Kay Bailey Hutchison (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.”
Allan MacLeod Cormack (1924–1998) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Banquet speech, The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1979
“They deny good luck, love, power, romance, and inspiration From La Jac Brite ointment and incense of all kinds, And condemn in writing skin brightening and whitening and whitening of minds. There is upon the federal trade commission a burden of glory So to defend the fact, so to impel The plucking of hope from the hand, honor from the complexion, Sprite from the spell.”
Josephine Miles (1911–1985) first seen 1941 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Government Injunction Restraining Harlem Cosmetic Co." (1941) St. 2–3; Collected Poems, University of Illinois Press, 1983
“It was necessary for the Son to disappear as an outward authority, in order that He might reappear as an inward principle of life. Our salvation is no longer God manifested in a Christ without us, but as a " Christ within us, the hope of glory.”
Frederick William Robertson (1816–1853) said by 1853 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't have an enemy in this state I hope, except rascals like Bill Dodd, Ray Knight and deLesseps Morrison. I'm proud of them! I'll be back. Keep your eye on the indicators. I thought I owed it to you to come look you in the eye and let as many of you see me and see I'm living and I'm not nuts. If I'm nuts, I've been nuts all my life. Thank ya, and God bless ya.”
Earl Long (1895–1960) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "1959 Year In Review: Governor Earl Long Goes Crazy," UPI.com (1959).
“If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.”
Orville Wright (1871–1948) first seen 1908 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to George A. Spratt (7 June 1908); as published in "Miracle at Kitty Hawk: Unpublished Letters of the Wright Brothers" by Fred C. Kelly, Part III, The Atlantic (July 1950)
“I also hope that Mainland China does not misinterpret or misjudge the current (cross-strait) situation, or think that Taiwanese will bow to such pressure. In a democratic society, this kind of pressure is felt by all. No administration in Taiwan can make a decision that runs counter to public opinion.”
Tsai Ing-wen (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am saddened to see these scenes of violence against unarmed protesters (in Hong Kong) and hope that Taiwan can continue to serve as a beacon of democracy for those who seek freedom.”
Tsai Ing-wen (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am still going through an experimental stage. I'm not happy, and I keep scrubbing out and scrubbing out again. I hope this mania will pass.. .I'm like the children at school; the clean page has to be filled with good writing, and splash – a mess! I'm still making messes and I'm forty years old.”
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) first seen 1881 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 169 : quote from Renoir's letter to his art-seller Durand-Ruel, 21st November 1881
“The disciples seem alone; but up yonder, in some hidden cleft of the hills, their Master looks down on all the weltering storm, and lifts His voice in prayer. Then when the need is sorest, and the hope least, He comes across the waves, making their surges His pavement, and using all opposition as the means of His approach; and His presence brings calmness; and immediately they are at the land.”
Alexander Maclaren (1826–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Go to the cross, and meet there God in sacrifice. Behold Him as Jesus bearing your sin, receiving the shafts of your enmity! Embrace Him, believe in Him, take Him to your inmost heart. Do this, and you shall feel sin die within you, and a glorious quickening, Christ the power of God, Christ in you the hope of glory, shall be consciously risen upon you, as the morn of your new creation.”
Horace Bushnell (1802–1876) said by 1876 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As I walk through This wicked world Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity, I ask myself Is all hope lost? Is there only pain and hatred, and misery? And each time I feel like this inside, Theres one thing I wanna know: What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, and Understanding?”
Nick Lowe (born 1949) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" on The New Favourites of Brinsley Schwarz (1974); the song later became a hit as sung by Elvis Costello. (Nicke Lowe performance - Elvis Costello & Nick Lowe joint…
“It is shocking, It is quite obvious that security of the Sri Lankan players has been hopelessly inadequate. We condemn the shooting and we hope that players like Samaraweera and Mendis are safe and will recover.”
P. Chidambaram (born 1945) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (about the 2009 Lahore attack on Sri Lankan cricket team)
“Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can.”
Edward Bond (1934–2024) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Programme note for We Come to the River (1976); cited from Lear (London: Methuen, 1983) p. xii.
“Yet I strode on austere; No hope could have no fear.”
James Thomson (poet, born 1834) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One thing alone my heart requires, — one gleam of living light amid the ashes and the gloom; that, while my penance is worked out, the face of God should not be turned away; that into my cell of humiliation the flood of divine pity should break, and keep aglow the openings of eternal hope, and sustain the hidden strength of an everlasting love.”
James Martineau (1805–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The difference between past and future... cause and effect... memory and hope... regret and intention... in the elementary laws that describe the mechanisms of the world, there is no such difference.”
Carlo Rovelli (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hope is more patient than despair and so outlasts it.”
Yahia Lababidi (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Serve God, and God will take care of you. Submit to His will, trust in His grace, and resign yourself into His hands with the assurance that the Lord is well pleased with those "that hope in His mercy.”
Gardiner Spring (1785–1873) said by 1873 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“County Clare inhabits my thoughts and my writing wherever I happen to be. Ireland is always speaking a story and I have to search for it. (Is it always familiar territory?) O'BRIEN: Yes and no. With each book I hope to dig deeper. That is all I ask.”
Edna O'Brien (1930–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hope to begin a new plan... not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching.”
Samuel Palmer (1805–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Life and letters of Samuel Palmer, Painter and Etcher (AH Palmer, London, 1892)
“The saddest birds a season find to sing, The roughest storm a calm may soon allay; Thus with succeeding turns God tempereth all, That men may hope to rise yet fear to fall.”
Robert Southwell (priest) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A scrip on my back, and a staff in my hand, I march on in haste through an enemy's land; The road may be rough, but it cannot be long; And I'll smooth it with hope, and I'll cheer it with song.”
Henry Francis Lyte (1793–1847) said by 1847 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The methods of mathematics are the main topic of the course, not a long list of finished mathematical results with such highly polished proofs that the poor student can only marvel at the results, with no hope of understanding how mathematics is actually created by practicing mathematicians.”
Richard Hamming (1915–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m a Veristitalian,” Jasnah said. “We search for answers in the past, reconstructing what truly happened. To many, writing a history is not about truth, but about presenting the most flattering picture of themselves and their motives. My sisters and I choose projects that we feel were misunderstood or misrepresented, and in studying them hope to better understand the present.”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the afterlife really is a big war,” Kaladin said, then I hope I end up in Damnation. At least there I might be able to get a wink or two of sleep.”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Falsehoods serve nobody, Kadash,” Dalinar said, pulling back. “If the Almighty is dead, then pretending otherwise is pure stupidity. We need real hope, not faith in lies.”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was Rudolf Carnap’s dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project.”
Hilary Putnam (1926–2016) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hilary Putnam, in: James Conant, Urszula M. Zeglen (2012) Hilary Putnam: Pragmatism and Realism. p. 14
“We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.”
Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849) first seen 1800 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Castle Rackrent (1800), Preface; Tales and Novels, vol. 1, p. 9.
“I tend to be mostly a futurist but it would be negligent of me to not acknowledge the incredible impact this last year has had on me. 1 year ago, 143 came out and I took the weekend to reflect. Records are snapshots of an artist trying to tell their story of where they are now or have been, and hope someone will hear themselves in some of the messages.”
Katy Perry (born 1984) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Katy Perry admits she's been 'beloved, tested and tried' amid Orlando Bloom split Hello Magazine (September 24, 2025).
“I kissed a girl and I liked it, The taste of her cherry chap stick. I kissed a girl just to try it, I hope my boyfriend don't mind it. It felt so wrong, It felt so right, Don't mean I'm in love tonight. I kissed a girl and I liked it, I liked it.”
Katy Perry (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When life has been well spent; when there is a conscience without reproach; when there is faith in the Saviour; when there is a well-founded hope of heaven, there can be nothing that should disquiet us.”
Albert Barnes (1798–1870) said by 1870 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As the days of spring arouse all nature to a green and growing vitality, so when hope enters the soul it makes all things new. It insures the progress which it predicts. Rooted in faith, growing up into love; these make the three immortal graces of the gospel, whose intertwined arms and concurrent voices shed joy and peace over our human life.”
James Freeman Clarke (1810–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The work of the Spirit is to impart life, to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Christ, to guide us into all truth, to teach us all things, to comfort the believer, and to convict the world of sin.”
Dwight L. Moody (1837–1899) said by 1899 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When a problem seems intractable, it is often a good idea to try to study "toy" versions of it in the hope that as the toys become increasingly larger and more sophisticated, they would metamorphose, in the limit, to the real thing.”
Doron Zeilberger (born 1950) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Self-Avoiding Walks, the language of science, and Fibonacci numbers. J. Stat. Inference and Planning, 54(1996), 135-138.