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“Give me love, give me peace on earth, Give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth, Give me hope, help me cope, with this heavy load, Trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul.”
George Harrison (1943–2001) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) (1973)
“We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.”
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Thomas A. Bruno in Take your dreams and Run (South Plainfield: Bridge, 1984), p. 2-3. Source: Dr. Preston Williams (2002): By the Way - A Snapshot Diagnosis of the Inner-City Dilemma, p. 38-39. Xulun Press,…
“You are not here merely to prepare to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.”
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ideals of College”, Swarthmore (25 October 1913)
“No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.”
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) first seen 1915 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Citizens of Foreign Birth”, Philadelphia (10 May 1915)
“What I'm saying here is not, I agree, poetry, as poems should be written rarely and reluctantly, under unbearable duress and only with the hope that good spirits, not evil ones, choose us for their instrument.”
Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hope that you will take this opportunity to understand this region better and to explore ways and means of establishing better cooperation between American businessmen and financiers with ASEAN's counterparts.”
Mahathir Mohamad (born 1925) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We do hope that actual direct trade with the Netherlands will increase.”
Mahathir Mohamad (born 1925) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We hope that we will be able to bequeath a safer, spiritually and economically prosperous and just world to the future generations.”
Mahathir Mohamad (born 1925) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hope that you of the IPA will go out into the hinterland and rouse the masses and blow the bugles and tell them that the hour has arrived and their day is here; that we are on the march against the ancient enemies and we are going to be successful.”
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks to the International Platform Association (August 3, 1965); reported in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965, book 2, p. 822
“There is no simple solution to these problems. In the past there would have been no solution at all. Today, the constantly unfolding conquests of science give man the power over his world and nature which brings the prospect of success within the purview of hope.”
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am writing to you in the hope that the conflict in Vietnam can be brought to an end. That conflict has already taken a heavy toll-in lives lost, in wounds inflicted, in property destroyed, and in simple human misery. If we fail to find a just and peaceful solution, history will judge us harshly.”
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So when you say it's gonna happen now. Well when exactly do you mean? See I've already waited too long. And all my hope is gone!”
Morrissey (born 1959) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: from the 1984 song "How Soon Is Now?", co-written with Johnny Marr.
“Well, the problem I've had with all the interviews I've had in America - I had meetings with about nine labels - and they all say to me "Will your new songs fit in with what is popular and what is in the chart?" And I say "Good God, I hope not!”
Morrissey (born 1959) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a radio interview with Janice Long (2002)
“I can smell burning flesh … and I hope to God it's human.”
Morrissey (born 1959) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: … midway through his performance, he was overcome with fumes from the backstage barbecue." - Tim Jonze Guardian. Live at Coachella festival, California (2009)
“He has borne the burdens few other men have borne in the history of the world, without hope or desire or thought to escape them. He has sought consensus but he has never shrunk from controversy. He has gained huge popularity but he has never failed to spend it in the pursuit of his beliefs or in the interest of his country.”
Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On LBJ (June 3, 1967); quoted in "The World Turned Upside Down
“Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and of experience. Yet as I talk to young people around the world I am impressed not by the diversity but by the closeness of their goals, their desires and their concerns and their hope for the future.”
Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time — without UN approval and much broader support from the international community.”
Kofi Annan (1938–2018) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Iraq war illegal, says Annan" BBC News (16 September 2004); when asked if the invasion of Iraq was illegal, he replied "Yes, if you wish. I have indicated it was not in conformity with the UN charter from our point of v…
“The intention was really to do something dignified, something that is honest and reflects the work that this Organization does. And it is with that spirit that the producers and the directors approached their work, and I hope you will all agree they have done that.”
Kofi Annan (1938–2018) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the film The Interpreter, from "Secretary-General's press encounter" (19 April 2005)
“In the political domain, deprived of any collective politcal landmark, stripped of any notion of the 'meaning of History’; and no longer able to hope for or expect a social revolution, many intellectuals, along with much of public opinion, have been won over to the logic of a capitalist economy and a parliamentary democracy.”
Alain Badiou (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When someone thinks, “I liked his last book, I’ll hope this new one is good” and shells out their hard-earned, I fervently want that person to be thrilled.”
Max Barry (born 1973) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: October 8, 2005 weblog post
“6 says, “Tina’s doing an arts degree.” “Oh?” I say, as if the eyebrow ring, blond hair with a streak of black and oppressive eye makeup hadn’t tipped me off. “Oh, let me guess,” Tina says. “He’s a marketer.” “Hi,” I say. …“I hope they pay you well for strangling the youth of this country with cultural conformity.”
Max Barry (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets; for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also perhaps we have a vague hope of finding a clue to genius in such "revelations.”
André Malraux (1901–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.”
Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good comes out of them only at the end of this life, in paradise.”
Subhash Kak (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.”
Subhash Kak (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To such a memorial as exists here we can only come in a spirit of humility and of gratitude. We can not hope to repay those whom we are assembled to honor. They were moved by a noble conception of human possibilities and human destiny. But we can undertake to find what was their inspiration and seek to make it our guide. By that they will be recompensed.”
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.”
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With faith and hope and courage we hold our heads erect and with dauntless spirit marshal the working class for the march from Capitalism to Socialism, from Slavery to Freedom, from Barbarism to Civilization.”
Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926) said by 1926 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Revolutionary tactics must harmonize with revolutionary principles. We could better hope to succeed with reactionary principles and revolutionary tactics than with revolutionary principles and reactionary tactics.”
Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926) said by 1926 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don't make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows. I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.”
"Weird Al" Yankovic (born 1959) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Celebrity Baby Scoop interview, 2 Feb 2011
“What I hope for and desire, what I labour for and have at heart, is to decentralise authority in Ireland. We have disestablished the Church, we have relieved the tenant class of many grievances, and we are now going to produce a state of things which will make the humblest Irishman realise that he is a governing agency and that the government is to be carried on by him and for him.”
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) first seen 1882 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Georges Clemenceau (winter 1882), quoted in Bernard Henry Holland, The Life of Spencer Compton, Eighth Duke of Devonshire, Volume I (1911), p. 383
“I have even the hope that...the sense of justice which abides tenaciously in the masses will never knowingly join hands with the Fiend of Jingoism.”
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) first seen 1885 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Lord Acton (11 February 1885), quoted in John Morley, The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Volume III (1903), p. 173
“Narration: But what kept them on their feet when there was no sane reason for hope were the bonds between them, loyalty to one another, the knowledge that others depended on them even as they depended on those others. And sometimes, all too rarely, it came down to a single person it was simply unthinkable to fail. Someone they knew would never quit on them, never leave them in the lurch.”
David Weber (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Those were men in whom great strength and knowledge served the will to evil and fed upon it. Whether the wizardry that serves a better end may always prove the stronger, we do not know. We hope.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give little armor against despair...Consider, Arren. To refuse death is to refuse life.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is one man's and one woman's love and desire, against the history of two worlds, the greatest revolution of our lifetimes, the hope, the unending cruelty of our species? A little thing. But a key is a little thing, next to the door it opens.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing — instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Left-Handed Commencement Address", Mills College (1983)
“I'm a better actor now than I ever was, I wish I could have hurried that up, but there's no way. Anyway, I always wanted to be around for a long time. Like a European actor, I hope I live a long time and that I'm acting until I finish.”
Christopher Walken (born 1943) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Associated Press (February 4, 1993) "Christopher Walken shows charming side", The Toronto Star, p. F7.
“In a coma, you don't dream, you just hope that someone sits with you.”
Conor Oberst (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I sing and drink and sleep on floors And try hard not to be annoyed By all these people worrying about me. So when I'm suffering through some awful drive, You occasionally cross my mind. It's my hidden hope that you are still among them. Well, are you?”
Conor Oberst (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is clear to see that it is not them but me, who had lost my self-identity. As I hide behind these books I read, while scribbling my poetry, like art could save a wretch like me, with some ideal ideology that no one can hope to achieve. And I am never real; it is just a sketch of me. And everything I have made is trite and cheap and a waste of paint, of tape, of time”
Conor Oberst (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But where was it when I first heard that sweet sound of humility? It came to my ears in the goddamn loveliest melody! How grateful I was, then, to be part of the mystery, To love, and to be loved! Let’s just hope that is enough.”
Conor Oberst (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've become a free-for-all brand. I hope they come out with a rule that they can't use a person's name without paying him for it!”
Shahrukh Khan (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I bring excitement on the sets. I’m an exciting actor, overrated, exaggerated. But I’m not an unexciting actor. I excite people. I never lose hope. If I feel that a film is going wrong somewhere, I do even better.”
Shahrukh Khan (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know this in no way alleviates the enormous amounts of pain and loss experienced by those who have suffered from the tsunami, but I hope it can make a difference.”
Sandra Bullock (born 1964) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a brief statement (4 January 2005), upon donating one million dollars to the relief efforts of the American Red Cross in response to the tsunamis at the end of 2004. This was her second million dollar gift to the Ame…
“But in truth, America is the last, best hope of freedom. If we can't make freedom and democracy work in America, then it can't be made to work any place in the world.”
Walter Reuther (1907–1970) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address before the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Detroit, Michigan, June 26, 1957, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. …
“I don’t want to reinforce that defiling the Capitol was okay. I don’t want to do anything that would make this more likely in the future. I hope they go to jail and get the book thrown at them because they deserve it.”
Lindsey Graham (1955–2026) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Gateway Pundit (January 30, 2022)
“I would hope that American managers - indeed, managers worldwide - continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more than exercising rank and privilege, that it is much more than "making deals." Management affects people and their lives.”
Peter Drucker (1909–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This new philosophy, however, was far from giving the temporal an inherent position and function in the constitution of things. Change was acting on the side of man but only because of fixed laws which governed the changes that take place. There was hope in change just because the laws that govern it do not change.”
John Dewey (1859–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The mystery is that the world is at it is -- a mystery that is the source of all joy and all sorrow, of all hope and fear, and the source of development both creative and degenerative. The contingency of all into which time enters is the source of pathos, comedy, and tragedy.”
John Dewey (1859–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source