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“What I hope is that, when the whole district is full of these little rifle clubs, we may then get a central range to which they could all adjourn. Bisley is very useful to men of means, but to the ordinary civilian rifleman it might as well be in the moon. We must have local ranges if the men are really to get the good of them.”
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) first seen 1901 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A British Commando", The Strand Magazine (June 1901), referencing the NRA Headquarters at Bisley, Surrey and Conan-Doyle's desire to develop local rifle clubs more accessible to working class men.
“Some readers will no doubt say that a devil is inside me; and though my faith is a bit like Magic FM in the Chilterns, in that the signal comes and goes, I can only hope that isn't so.”
Boris Johnson (born 1964) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: What's so funny about the Passion?", The Daily Telegraph, 4 March 2004, p. 24.
“And I want to congratulate you Brian [Paddick] on your great common sense and decency with which you put your case and I do hope that it is not the end of our discussions about the police.”
Boris Johnson (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And when we have that drink together which we both so richly deserve, I hope we can discover a way in which the mayoralty can continue to benefit from your transparent love of London, a city whose energy conquered the world and which now brings the world together in one city.”
Boris Johnson (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do not for one minute believe that this election shows that London has been transformed overnight into a Conservative city but I do hope it does show that the Conservatives have changed into a party that can again be trusted after 30 years with the greatest, most cosmopolitan, multi-racial generous hearted city on earth in which there are huge and growing divisions between rich and poor.”
Boris Johnson (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And I hope that everybody who loves this city will put aside party differences to try in the making of Greater London greater still. Let's get cracking tomorrow and let's have a drink tonight.”
Boris Johnson (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is vital now to see this [Brexit] moment for what it is. This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt, but it is a moment for hope and ambition for Britain. A time not to fight against the tide of history, but to take that tide at the flood, and sail on to fortune.”
Boris Johnson (born 1964) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: During the announcement that he would not run to become Britain's prime minister. A reference to Brutus's "There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" in Julius Caesar. (June 3…
“I hope you will understand my hesitation in writing to one whom I admire as the greatest representative of a philosophy to which I want to dedicate my whole life.”
Ayn Rand (1905–1982) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to H.L. Mencken July 28, 1934.
“I still hope for change, and believe work and prayer can produce results. I have a button that says Picket and Pray. There's still a chance to turn things around. Glasnost and Perestroika are what we need in the USA, just as much as in the Soviet Union-especially Perestroika! (1988)”
Denise Levertov (1923–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People ask the way to Cold Mountain. Cold Mountain? There is no road that goes through. Even in summer the ice doesn't melt; Though the sun comes out, the fog is blinding. How can you hope to get there by aping me? Your heart and mine are not alike. If your heart were the same as mine, Then you could journey to the very center!”
Hanshan (born 800) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've reluctantly discarded the notion of my continuing to manage the portfolio after my death — abandoning my hope to give new meaning to the term "thinking outside the box.”
Warren Buffett (born 1930) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2007 Chairman's Letter
“During the last few years, we've ventured into a lot of different fields. We've had the opportunity to meet and work with a lot of wonderful people. Our only hope is we never lose sight of one thing: that it was all started by a mouse. Now, that is why I want this part of the show to belong to Mickey, because the story of Mickey is truly the real beginning of Disneyland.”
Walt Disney (1901–1966) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Disneyland Story television program (27 October 1954)
“To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America; with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.”
Walt Disney (1901–1966) first seen 1955 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech on the opening day of Disneyland (17 July 1955)
“All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.”
Chuck Palahniuk (born 1962) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Online chat transcript, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (2007-05-01)
“Thank you of course to Miss Hepburn. The longevity of her career I think is inspiring to everyone. But most importantly and on behalf of everyone I know in The Aviator, thank you to Martin Scorsese. I hope my son will marry your daughter.”
Cate Blanchett (born 1969) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: After winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for portraying Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator, (27 February 2005)
“A life is not about its events; it's about challenges met and overcome- or not; it's about successes and failures. But more than all of these put together, it's about how we touch and are touched by the people we meet. It's all about the people. I hope that comes through clearly in the pages you have just read. The people in my life made me what I am.”
Colin Powell (1937–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They are beautiful monsters... And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty.”
Orson Scott Card (born 1951) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wyrms (1987).
“Your father cares as little as we do. It's just that he tends to despair, while we are full of hope.”
Orson Scott Card (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Keep your freedom, keep your immortality, but somewhere along the line I hope you figure out what you're living forever for. What noble purpose you mean to achieve. Because you're no good to anyone here, not even yourselves.”
Orson Scott Card (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.”
Orson Scott Card (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm nobody's child. You're mine now. Not my child, but mine, to miss you when you go, to look out for you, to hope you'll be careful.”
Orson Scott Card (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have no way of knowing that your story is not true — but you have no way of knowing that my story isn't true. So I will choose the one that I love. I will close the one that, if it's true, makes this reality one worth living in. I'll act as if the life I hope for is real life, and the life that disgusts me — your life, your view of life — is the lie.”
Orson Scott Card (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I wanted to doubt then I could doubt endlessly. But at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.”
Orson Scott Card (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They sang their mysterious duo, sang of their nameless hope, their death-in-love, their union unending, lost forever in the embrace of night's magic kingdom. O sweet night, everlasting night of love! Land of blessedness whose frontiers are infinite!”
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”
Anne Frank (1929–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wakin' up to find yourself creamin' Check your fears and hope that you're dreamin' A little space is all that I need If these suckers just allow me to breathe Snake pits and Lucifer's burns Can't take the strength I've earned and learned Stepped in depth of the same livin' hell Ain't too proud to die here as well.Do Do Wap is strong in here; Do Do Wap is strong in here, hey! hey!”
Curtis Mayfield (1942–1999) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Do Do Wap is Strong in Here, from Short Eyes (1977).
“I hope that Live Earth ends global warming the same way the Live Aid ended world poverty.”
Chris Rock (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.”
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) said by 1830 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Happy are they who live in the dream of their own existence, and see all things in the light of their own minds; who walk by faith and hope; to whom the guiding star of their youth still shines from afar, and into whom the spirit of the world has not entered! They have not been "hurt by the archers", nor has the iron entered their souls. The world has no hand on them.”
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) said by 1830 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Not in the time of pleasure Hope doth set her bow; But in the sky of sorrow, Over the vale of woe. Through gloom and shadow look we On beyond the years! The soul would have no rainbow Had the eyes no tears.”
John Vance Cheney (1848–1922) first seen 1892 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Century Vol. 44, Issue 4 (August 1892)
“It's a scientific-cum-sporting murder proposition with enough guns at last to account for the birds, and the Hun is having a very sickly time of it. He has the erroneous idea that he is being hurt, whereas he won't know what real pain means for a long time. I almost begin to hope that when we have done with him there will be very little Hun left.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) first seen 1916 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to L. C. Dunsterville, September 1916. Quoted in Lord Birkenhead, Rudyard Kipling. London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978 (p.271).
“Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung, And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young!”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No easy hope or lies Shall bring us to our goal, But iron sacrifice Of body, will, and soul. There is but one task for all— One life for each to give. What stands if Freedom fall? Who dies if England live?”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So long as Faith with Freedom reigns And loyal Hope survives, And gracious Charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For Intellect or Will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.”
Alfred Austin (1835–1913) said by 1913 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fond archer, Hope! who tak'st thy aim so far, That still or short, or wide thine arrows are!”
Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) said by 1667 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hope, of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure.”
Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) said by 1667 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.”
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I can't help it," I said. "My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things." "You and your what?" he said. "My soul and my meat," I said. "They're separate?" he said. "I sure hope they are," I said. I laughed. "I would hate to be responsible for what my meat does.”
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, "Kurt is up in heaven now." That's my favorite joke.”
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.”
Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Get going. Move forward. Aim high. Plan for a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Trump: How to Get Rich (2004), p. 74
“Donald Trump: Well, first of all, I sort of hope that happens because then people like me would go in and buy.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How to Build a Fortune (2006), Trump University audiobook, quoted in
“Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Press conference, reported in Ashley Parker and David E. Sanger, "Donald Trump Calls on Russia to Find Hillary Clinton's Missing Emails, The New York Times (July 27, 2016).
“CLINTON: Donald was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis. He said, back in 2006, "Gee, I hope it does collapse, because then I can go in and buy some and make some money." Well, it did collapse.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wonderful to see Colin Powell, who made big mistakes on Iraq and famously, so-called weapons of mass destruction, be treated in death so beautifully by the Fake News Media. Hope that happens to me someday. He was a classic RINO, if even that, always being the first to attack other Republicans. He made plenty of mistakes, but anyway, may he rest in peace!”
Donald Trump (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“OUR HIGHLY PARTISAN, AND VERY CORRUPT, DEPARTMENT OF INJUSTICE, COULD HAVE BROUGHT THIS BIDIN “OPPONENT” CASE YEARS AGO, BUT CHOSE TO WAIT AND BRING IT RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF MY ELECTION CAMPAIGN. NO WAY!!! I HOPE YOU ARE WATCHING AMERICA. OUR COUNTRY IS BEING DESTROYED.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s really good to see them go, and I hope I played a major part in it!”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Claimed after the popular late night show hosts and comedians criticised the policies of Trump, quoted in "Trump repeats claim Kimmel, Fallon are ‘next’ after Stephen Colbert cancellation" New York Post (August 7, 2025)
“I hope I never have to use the nuclear arsenal.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Trump, spero di non dover mai usare l'arsenale nucleare, ANSA.it, 30 September 2025 (in Italian)
“Isn’t it amazing how much human beings are able to take? I wonder what the breaking point is. But I always look for the faithful remnant. You think that everything is lost and nobody believes in anything that is healthy anymore and all of a sudden you find this faithful remnant of hope. It’s like my mother said, always look for the helpers. At the edge of any disaster, you will find them.”
Fred Rogers (1928–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source