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“I hope I can pass on a few thoughts and ideas to the Sci-Fi channel to encourage people to see that they are living in a conditioned illusion and we can change it any time we want. We can be people and not sheeple.”
David Icke (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is the first time that astronauts of the first group have exhibited things that are personal and sentimental to them. We hope it will encourage youngsters to follow in our footsteps.”
Alan Shepard (1923–1998) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On dedicating the Astronaut Hall of Fame — reported in Associated Press (May 12, 1990) "Five of Mercury Seven return to the Cape, Launch Hall of Fame - Astronauts hope exhibits will inspire youths to learn", The Gazette…
“People say I am eccentric and frail. Well, I may be frail in body and hearing, but I hope my state of mind is as alert as ever it was and I am going to speak my mind as freely as I have ever done. I am a common man and I speak for the common people of England and from the letters I receive, the great majority agree with me.”
Alfred Denning, Baron Denning (1899–1999) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview (16 August 1990), quoted in The Times (17 August 1990), p. 1
“Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.”
Mason Cooley (1927–2002) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: City Aphorisms (1984)
“This is the most important election of my lifetime. I have never been heavily involved in partisan politics but these are not normal times. President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests and undermining American values. That is why I am publishing this message. I have been demonized by the Bush campaign but I hope you will give me a hearing.”
George Soros (born 1930) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have been crisscrossing the country for the last three weeks arguing against the reelection of President Bush. I feel strongly that he has led us in the wrong direction. The invasion of Iraq was a colossal blunder and only by rejecting the President at the polls can we hope to escape from the quagmire in which we find ourselves.”
George Soros (born 1930) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I can tell you that once upon a time when I was doing public events people would ask me, "What do you think about the arts?, What do you think of the role of women?, What do you think of men?, What do you think of all of these things?", and now they ask one thing, and that one thing is this, "Is there hope?”
Margaret Atwood (born 1939) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Turning Pages: The Life and Literature of Margaret Atwood (September 13, 2007) Official television documentary credited on http://www.margaretatwood.ca/books_on.php
“we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.”
Margaret Atwood (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's better to hope than mope!”
Margaret Atwood (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm looking forward, though, one day, if I'm not too old, to do a free concert in a free Cuba. That to me would be fantastic. We're looking forward to it. Well, hopefully, I mean he's [Castro] gotta go [die] sometime. He's gotta go sometime -- let's hope it's sooner [rather] than later.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: televised interview" (22 April 2005)
“I wrote these two songs ["Coming Out of the Dark" and "Always Tomorrow"] as a celebration of hope. And, I want to send it out to all of those people who are suffering through this terrible disaster [Hurricane Katrina], and please know that you are not alone -- and you will not be.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Larry King Live television program (September 9, 2005)
“A democratic media gives us hope. It chronicles the movements and organizations that are making history today. When people hear their neighbors given a voice, see their struggles in what they watch and read, spirits are lifted. People feel like they can make a difference.”
Amy Goodman (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hope lies in fighting back. (conclusion)”
Amy Goodman (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What gives me hope? It's the movements. Movements often start with a courageous act of resistance. These are not isolated acts. They are inspired by past movements. And they inspire future ones.”
Amy Goodman (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hope it won't take long.”
Enrico Fermi (1901–1954) said by 1954 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Comment to Eugene Wigner, ten days before his death from cancer, as quoted in The collected works of Eugene Paul Wigner (1992), p. 108
“It is here that we see the dawn of hope: for no matter how formidably Communism bristles with tanks and rockets, no matter what successes it attains in seizing the planet, it is doomed never to vanquish Christianity.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When it comes to the all-too-human problem of recessions and depressions, economists need to abandon the neat but wrong solution of assuming that everyone is rational and markets work perfectly. The vision that emerges as the profession rethinks its foundations may not be all that clear; it certainly won’t be neat; but we can hope that it will have the virtue of being at least partly right.”
Paul Krugman (born 1953) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?", The New York Times (September 2, 2009)
“I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.”
Ben Stein (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Young people have a special place in the heart of the Holy Father, who often repeats that the whole Church looks to them with particular hope for a new beginning of evangelization.”
Pope John Paul II (1920–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.”
Pope John Paul II (1920–2005) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pope John Paul II, Anthony F. Chiffolo (Editor): Pope John Paul II: In My Own Words. Published August 6th 2002 by Gramercy Books (first published October 1998).
“I refuse to be pessimistic. I don't believe in it. I hope that we can find a way to keep from destroying the earth.”
Tommy Lee Jones (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”
Arthur Miller (1915–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want to say to you — why don’t you go fuck yourself, you tiny brain — and I hope this gets picked up because you’re a moron, I tried to give you a hearing but you were too fucking annoying.”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[To Sidney Powell, Trump attorney involved in making false claims about the 2020 presidential election result] You keep telling our viewers that millions of votes were changed by the software. I hope you will prove that very soon [...] You've convinced them that Trump will win. If you don't have conclusive evidence of fraud at that scale, it’s a cruel and reckless thing to keep saying.”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Defamation suit produced trove of Tucker Carlson messages" AP News (April 24, 2023)
“I hope those who shouted "Fascist" and "Nazi" are aware that before they were born I was fighting against Fascism and Nazism.”
Enoch Powell (1912–1998) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks to student hecklers at a speech in Cardiff (8 November 1968), quoted in Simon Heffer, Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell (1998), p. 489
“It has been the hope of every patriot that a sense of justice and of respect for the law would work a gradual cure of these flagrant evils. Surely no one supposes that the present can be accepted as a permanent condition. If it is said that these communities must work out this problem for themselves, we have a right to ask whether they are at work upon it. Do they suggest any solution?”
Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I look at the world, I sometimes feel that here in Germany one may still be in some sort of lifeboat that can hope to keep afloat when the rest of the world goes bust. German and Switzerland and perhaps Austria and Belgium have the few relatively stable currencies in the world.”
Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview in Silver & Gold Report, Vol. V, No. 20, (Late October 1980)
“Maybe 100. As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed, it's fine with me and I hope it would be fine with you if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where al-Qaeda is training, recruiting, equipping and motivating people every single day.”
John McCain (1936–2018) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: When asked at a town hall meeting prior to the 2008 New Hampshire Primary about a Bush statement that U.S. troops could be in Iraq for 50 years. 3 January 2008
“I hope that Israel flourishes, I just don't think that Israel is worth ‘an American life or an American dollar’”
Michael Scheuer (born 1952) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Michael Scheuer interviewed by Bill Maher, September 21, 2007.
“If there is a hereafter, the Democrats will burn because they were the Doers that killed the republic, the Republicans because they were the Talkers who abetted its murder. And such will be a well deserved fate for both. It is enough to make an agnostic hope there is a God.”
Michael Scheuer (born 1952) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Obama and his party offer America's young … death, misery, and slavery" (2013), by M. Scheuer, Michael Scheuer's Non-Intervention.
“In general, the nightmare quality of Marx's thought gives it, in this bedevilled age, an air of greater reality than the gentle complacency of the orthodox academics. Yet he, at the same time, is more encouraging than they, for he releases hope as well as terror from Pandora's box, while they preach only the gloomy doctrine that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.”
Joan Robinson (1903–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Marx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if there is any hope of progress in economics at all, it must be in using academic methods to solve the problems posed by Marx.”
Joan Robinson (1903–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still be trying to pay back my obligations.”
Richard E. Byrd (1888–1957) first seen 1928 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On his expedition to fly over the North Pole. His claim to have done so is now widely disputed. Skyward (1928)
“Lord of all being, thronèd afar, Thy glory flames from sun and star; Center and soul of every sphere, Yet to each loving heart how near! Sun of our life, Thy quickening ray, Sheds on our path the glow of day; Star of our hope, Thy softened light Cheers the long watches of the night.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thank you all for this great honor, and for all your great work. I hope it makes you happy, as you have made me happy for this five minutes of my life, which will last until I get to the edge of this stage and it hits me that this was all a bunch of nonsense.”
Jerry Seinfeld (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I tell you what: I give you all of my strength - I seal it inside a little green envelope and mail it to you with hope and peace and much much love. Take all you need and take it quickly.”
Douglas Coupland (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I used to have these very strange situations where I'd be walking down the street and I would imagine people calling out my name. I was as optimistic and as full of hope as anybody could be. And lots of things didn't turn out the way I wanted them to when I was a younger fella, but I didn't lose that thirst to understand what it is that I could do well.”
Russell Crowe (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There were two great orators of antiquity. One was Cicero, and the other Demosthenes. When Cicero was done speaking, people always gave him a standing ovation and cheered, "What a great speech!" When Demosthenes was done, people said, "Let us march," and they did. That's the difference between presentation and persuasion. I hope to be classified in the latter category.”
Anthony Robbins (born 1960) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 413; this paraphrases an observation made by Adlai Stevenson while introducing John F. Kennedy in 1960, as quoted in Adlai Stevenson and The World: The Life of Adlai E. Stevenson‎ (1977) by John Bartlow Martin, p. 54…
“At eleven o’clock this morning came to an end the cruellest and most terrible War that has ever scourged mankind. I hope we may say that thus, this fateful morning, came to an end all wars.”
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons (11 November 1918)
“The men who indulge in these murders say it is war. If it is war, they, at any rate, cannot complain if we apply some of the rules of war... Until this conspiracy is suppressed there is no hope of real peace or conciliation in Ireland, and every one desires peace and conciliation—on fair terms; fair to Ireland, yes, but fair to Britain... You must break the terror before you get peace.”
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) first seen 1920 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at the Guildhall, London (9 November 1920), quoted in The Times (10 November 1920), p. 8
“They have got rid of me for a time...but it will only be for a time. I am out to fight in exactly the same cause to which I have consecrated my strength during the whole of my life—the cause of the people, the downtrodden and the oppressed. I hope that the people will stand with me in fighting the great battle of liberty and progress.”
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at Cardiff station (9 November 1922), quoted in John Campbell, Lloyd George: The Goat in the Wilderness, 1922–1931 (1977), p. 35
“He had always felt that they thought that in him they had a kindred spirit. That was true. Their great men were the men he admired; some of their greatest men were the men from whom he had drawn inspiration, notably Abraham Lincoln. The next day he was to start on a journey to see a country which he regarded as the great miracle of the West, where man had risen from the dead past to a new hope.”
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) first seen 1923 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the American Society in London at the Savoy Hotel, London, before his tour of the United States (28 September 1923), quoted in The Times (29 September 1923), p. 6
“The hope of the future would be found in a party of sane progress. The present danger was to identify progress with the Socialist Party... It was important, therefore, that they had revived a party which represented sound, sensible, rational progress.”
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) first seen 1923 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Leeds (27 November 1923), quoted in The Times (28 November 1923), p. 18
“My dear soul, I can stand on my own feet, but so poorly that I don't know if my head is on my shoulders. I have no appetite or desire to do anything at all. Only your letters cheer me up – only yours. I don't know what will become of me now that I have lost sight of you; I who idolize you have given up hope that you'll ever glance at these blurred lines and get consolation from them.”
Francisco Goya (1746–1828) first seen 1774 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: letter to his friend Martín Zapaterand [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestand:Francisco_de_Goya_-_Portrait_of_Mart%C3%ADn_Zapater_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg, March 1793; from: 'Francisco de Goya. MS Letters to Martín Zapa…
“Since most of the subjects depicted in this work are not real, it is not unreasonable to hope that connoisseurs will readily overlook their defects.”
Francisco Goya (1746–1828) said by 1828 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everything you tell me in your last letter, which is to say that to spend more time with me they will give up going to Paris, fills me with the greatest pleasure.. .I find myself much better, and I hope to be back where I was before.. .I am happy to be better to receive my most beloved travelers. This improvement I owe to Molina.”
Francisco Goya (1746–1828) first seen 1827 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: letter to Javier (his only son), from Madrid, Summer of 1827; as quoted by Robert Hughes, in: Goya. Borzoi Book - Alfred Knopf, New York, 2003, p. 401 – note 15
“Let's just hope that all the world is run by Bill Gates before the Perl hackers can destroy it.”
Erik Naggum (1965–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Once we were Programmers. Maybe our last best hope is a movie.”
Erik Naggum (1965–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hope and optimism are irrepressible but there is a deep underlying premonition that the opposition to change is likely to be vicious. Often the anxious question is asked: will such an oppressive regime really give us democracy? And the answer has to be: democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not 'given', it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.”
Aung San Suu Kyi (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And it was from America. Progressive movement in America. Eugenics. In case you don't know what Eugenics led us to: the Final Solution. A master race! A perfect person. …. The stuff that we are facing is absolutely frightening. So I guess I have to put my name on yes, I hope Barack Obama fails. But I just want his policies to fail; I want America to wake up.”
Glenn Beck (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source