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“By your victory at the polls, you have put to shame the revisionists and their agenda in the Church of Christ, and particularly in the Episcopal Church of United States of America (ECUSA). I hope that by your election victory, these ordained men and women will feel rebuked and be forced to repent of this grievous sin of repudiating the word of God, and to seek genuine restoration.”
Peter Akinola (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.”
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Solidarity song" [Solidaritätslied] (1931), trans. John Willett in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 186
“For Appetite with an opinion of attaining, is called HOPE.”
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) said by 1679 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Despair exists only when there is hope.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 11th Public Talk, London, UK (25 May 1961)
“God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope.”
Steve Allen (1921–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I am gone I hope there may still be courageous people in the world to criticize me, so that I don't become a hindrance on anybody's path. And those who will criticize me will not be my enemies; neither am I the enemy of those whom I have criticized. The working of the enlightened masters just has to be understood.”
Rajneesh (1931–1990) said by 1990 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is not necessary to succeed in order to persevere. As long as there is a margin of hope, however narrow, we have no choice but to base all our actions on that margin. America and Russia have one interest in common which may override all their other interests: to be able to live with the bomb without getting into an all-out war that neither of them wants.”
Leó Szilárd (1898–1964) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Some Szilardisms on War, Fame, Peace", LIFE‎ magazine, Vol. 51, no. 9 (1 September 1961), p. 79
“We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unanimously fight, without seeking our own interests... I profess I could never satisfy myself on the justness of this war, but from the authority of the parliament to maintain itself in its rights; and in this cause I hope to prove myself an honest man and single-hearted.”
Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) first seen 1644 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement to Colonel Valentine Walton (5 or 6 September 1644)
“I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him.”
Ali (599–661) said by 661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man is a victim of dope In the incurable form of hope.”
Ogden Nash (1902–1971) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Good-by, Old Year, You Oaf or Why Don't They Pay the Bonus?" in The Primrose Path (1935).
“I hope of lightning our supply Will never be exhausted; You know it's lanterns in the sky For angels who are losted.”
Ogden Nash (1902–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every Conservative desires peace. The threat to peace comes from Communism, which has powerful forces ready to attack anywhere. Communism waits for weakness, it leaves strength alone. Britain therefore must be strong, strong in arms, and strong in faith in her own way of life. The greatest hope for peace lies in friendship and co-operation with the United States of America.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) first seen 1951 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1951 General Election Address (8 October 1951)
“Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The battle for women's rights has been largely won. The days when they were demanded and discussed in strident tones should be gone for ever. And I hope they are. I hated those strident tones that you still hear from some Women's Libbers'.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech on Women in a changing World (26 July 1982)
“We will not reflate...Past governments have tried that. Past governments have deliberately created inflation in the hope of reducing unemployment. It always finished up with worse inflation and worse unemployment. Mr President, You can't build a secure future on dishonest money. And there is a fundamental truth, from which no government can escape.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to Conservative Party Conference (11 October 1985)
“I hope to go on and on.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: TV Interview for BBC (11 May 1987)
“When the ANC says that they will target British companies, this shows what a typical terrorist organisation it is. I fought terrorism all my life and if more people fought it, and we were all more successful, we should not have it and I hope that everyone in this hall will think it is right to go on fighting terrorism. They will if they believe in democracy.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Press Conference (17 October 1987), in answer to Alan Merrydew of BCTV News who asked what her response was "to a reported ANC statement that they will target British firms in South Africa?
“I could never have signed this treaty. I hope that that is clear to all who have heard me.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the House of Lords rejecting the Maastricht Treaty (7 June 1993)
“I might have preferred iron, but bronze will do. It won't rust. And, this time I hope, the head will stay on.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statue of Margaret Thatcher unveiled at British Parliament", Associated Press, 21 February 2007.
“North Korea desperately needed the foreign currency which this lethal trade could bring; its role as chief 'rogue' reinforced its prestige among anti-Western states, near and far; and it could also hope at the right moment to extort new instalments of Danegeld from America and her allies.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m not sure. There’s not much I can do. Unless—” he hesitated. “Unless what?” “Unless I make an underwater survey myself.” Damon was appalled. “What do you hope to gain by that?” Fletcher smiled. “If I knew, I wouldn’t need to go.”
Jack Vance (1916–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are sufficiently at the mercy of machines, Roger; if our music must necessarily be mechanical, then it is time for us to throw in the sponge, and abandon all hope for the future of humanity.”
Jack Vance (1916–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah! Five hundred years I have toiled to entice this creature, despairing, doubting, brooding by night, yet never abandoning hope that my calculations were accurate and my great talisman cogent. Then, when finally it appears, you fall upon it for no other reason than to sate your repulsive gluttony!”
Jack Vance (1916–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make a decent motion picture.”
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No I would not give you false hope On this strange and mournful day But the mother and child reunion Is only a motion away, Oh, little darling of mine I can't for the life of me Remember a sadder day I know they say let it be But it just don't work out that way...”
Paul Simon (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Trust your intuition. It's just like goin' fishin'. You cast your line and hope you get a bite. But you don't need to waste your time worrying about the marketplace, Try to help the human race. Struggling to survive its harshest hour.”
Paul Simon (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know there is a hope in religion; I know there is faith and I know there is prayer about religion and necessary to it, but God is most glorified when there is peace on earth and good will towards men.”
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass (2009), by Maurice S. Lee, Cambridge University Press, p. 70
“I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements of which the Republican party was composed gave better ground for the ultimate hope of the success of the colored man's cause than those of the Democratic party.”
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1941), chapter 47, p. 579
“Is it possible that he has already abandoned all hope of getting re-elected? Or does he plan to cancel the Election altogether by declaring a national military emergency with terrorists closing in from all sides, leaving him with no choice but to launch a huge bomb immediately?. . . Desperate men do desperate things, and stupid men do stupid things. We are in for a desperately stupid summer.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bush's Disturbing Sleeping Disorder" (18 February 2004)
“I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and Daffy Duck will be there waiting as our one true always and forever salvation?”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why Cartoons Are Forever", Los Angeles Times (3 December 1989)
“From now on I hope always to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out. We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Zen in the Art of Writing (1990)
“And though the debate may run another hundred thousand years: What is Love? perhaps we may find that love is the ability of someone to give us back to us. Maybe love is someone seeing and remembering, handing us back to ourselves just a trifle better than we had dared to hope or dream...”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level.”
Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958) first seen 1958 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: to Jagdish Mehra, in Berkeley, California (May 1958), as quoted in The Historical Development of Quantum Theory (2000) by Jagdish Mehra
“With my assumption... life need never end. There is no decisive argument for deciding between [certain] assumptions. I prefer the one that allows the possibility of endless life. One may hope that some day the question will be decided by direct observation.”
Paul Dirac (1902–1984) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Untitled, Nature (1961) Vol. 192, p. 441, as quoted by , The Physics of Immortality (1994) p. 11. Described as Dirac's Postulate of Eternal Life
“I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new.”
P. D. Ouspensky (1878–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. [...] It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It's a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.”
J. K. Rowling (born 1965) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Ann Treneman "J. K. Rowling : The Interview", The Times (30 June 2000)
“The last thing I want to say is this. I haven't written this essay in the hope that anybody will get out a violin for me, not even a teeny-weeny one. I'm extraordinarily fortunate; I'm a survivor, certainly not a victim.”
J. K. Rowling (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I also like to ride Segways. How much fun that is! Anybody think that's fun? I hope so... There's an awful lot of people in the world that sneer at Segways because other people are having fun. There must be something bad about it. But I always tell people, that hey, these Segways are so environmentally conscious. I carry four of them in the trunk of my Hummer.”
Steve Wozniak (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Drugs Are the Religion of the People — The Only Hope is Dope”
Timothy Leary (1920–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no substitute for honesty... there is NO HOPE for the person who is dishonest... p.88”
Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's an infernal nuisance to love Life as I do. I seem to love it more as time goes on rather than less. It never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel. I do hope I'll be able to keep in it long enough to do some really good work. I'm sick of people dying who promise well.”
Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Anne Estelle Rice (21 May 1921)), from The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, vol. IV
“I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.”
Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) said by 1923 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Katherine Mansfield: The Memories of L.M. (1972; digitized 2006), p. 178. L.M. was Lesley Morris, the pseudonym of Mansfield's friend Ida Baker.
“He is probably choking on a pretzel or something. I hope nobody tells him that I have won this award while he is eating a pretzel. … He has the funniest lines in the film. I am eternally grateful to him.”
Michael Moore (born 1954) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement about US President George W. Bush, at press conference after winning the top prize at the Cannes film festival for Fahrenheit 9/11; quoted in Reuters reports (22 May 2004) and in {{cite journal
“Everyone is stopped and waiting, maitre d's, hansom cab drivers and governments. Everyone's waiting for the end. Let's hope the apocalypse is pleasant, Your Highness.”
Karl Kraus (writer) first seen 1899 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement of 1899, as quoted in Jahrhundertwende 1900 : Untergangsstimmung und Fortschrittsglauben (1998) by Franz Hare, p. 190
“War is at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that the other fellow isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.”
Karl Kraus (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Well I'm a man of many wishes, Hope my premonition misses, But what I really feel, My eyes won't let me hide, 'Cause they always start to cry, 'Cause this time could mean goodbye.”
Stevie Wonder (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Raindrops, passionate raindrops, The kind of rain that writes 'They're so in love' on our skin. Raindrops, that we hope won't stop Cooling the red hot love that we are making.”
Stevie Wonder (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The foundation upon which our nation stands is much richer and firmer than the sympathies that may occasionally divide us. And we never know this more truly than in Christmas time. In good times or in bad, under clear skies or under the shadow of uncertainty, the Christmas message is the imperishable one of joy, hope and brotherhood.”
Ferdinand Marcos (1917–1989) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Christmas message to overseas Filipinos (25 December 1979)
“Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend.”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in BAM (1992-01-10).