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“You believe that America is the last best hope for the free world. Boy, was I a moron for believing that. Nope, there are a lot of people that believe that we are the oppressor. This man states it. He states in this book "The purpose is to create mass organizations to seize power." Wow! That almost sounds like the Tides Foundation.”
Glenn Beck (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you have money in the stock market, if you have... may I just recommend you have some cash handy, that you have your food and everything else ready. I hope to God that none of this stuff happens, but you have people who are anarchist revolutionaries who are intent on collapsing the system, they are trying to break the system.”
Glenn Beck (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.”
Erich Fromm (1900–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O dream on your black wings you come when I am sleeping.Sweet is the god but still I am in agony and far from my strength.for I had hope (none now) to share something of the blessed gods,nor was I so foolish as to scorn pleasant toys.Now may I have all these things.”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 63 Voigt (tr. Willis Barnstone, 1965)
“Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.”
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.”
Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The New Art of Living (1986), p. 13
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge — That myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts — That hope always triumphs over experience — That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
Robert Fulghum (born 1937) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Credo" at his official website; this may be partly influenced by remarks of Albert Einstein in "What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck" The Saturday Evening Post (26 October 1929): I am en…
“It is then in making hope practical, rather than despair convincing, that we must resume and change and extend our campaigns.”
Raymond Williams (1921–1988) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Politics of Nuclear Disarmament" (1980), in Resources of Hope p. 188 (1989).
“We hope that the analysis offered here will demonstrate that Hegel’s basic concepts are hostile to the tendencies that have led into Fascist theory and practice. Preface”
Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“‘Resignation’ is a keynote in Comte’s writings, deriving directly from assent to invariable social laws. ‘True resignation, that is, a disposition to endure necessary evils steadfastly and without any hope of compensation therefore, can result only from a profound feeling for the invariable laws that govern the variety of natural phenomena. P. 345”
Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A nation that silences or intimidates original minds is left only with unoriginal minds and cannot hope to hold its own in the competition of peace or of war.”
Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I sympathise most deeply with your expressions on the horrors of war, than which no one can feel more strongly than I do; and earnestly hope that it may be averted. But I cannot abandon my own subjects who have appealed to me for protection. If President Kruger is reasonable, there will be no war, but the issue is in his hands.”
Queen Victoria (1819–1901) first seen 1837 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to the Queen of the Netherlands shortly before the Second Boer War (September 1899), quoted in The Letters of Queen Victoria: A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861, Vol. II…
“The heart opens itself to the hope that the misfortunes of the past will be replaced by fruitful dialogue.”
Elio Toaff (1915–2015) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pope Speaks in Rome Synagogue, in the First Such Visit on Record" by E. J. Dionne Jr, The New York Times, 13 April 1986, retrieved 9 August 2010.
“It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things do work, but only what kind of quick, easy outer impression they give. If so, there is little hope for our cities or probably for much else in our society. But I do not think this is so.”
Jane Jacobs (1916–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh, come as comes the morn. Serene and strong and full of faith, America, arise, With steady hope and mighty help to join thy brave Allies. O dearest country of my heart, home of the high desire, Make clean thy soul for sacrifice on Freedom’s altar-fire: For thou must suffer, thou must fight, until the warlords cease, And all the peoples lift their heads in liberty and peace.”
Henry van Dyke (1852–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My hope is that... I will open Democrats' and other progressives' eyes to the many values shared by the Left and Right... like the desire to end corporate welfare and convert to a renewable energy (solar) economy. ...the way to defeat Trump... is to embrace (not marginalize) issues such as raising the minimum wage. ...It is a question of do or just further fade away.”
Ralph Nader (born 1934) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The most valuable thing I inherited was a temperament that does not revolt against Necessity and that is constantly renewed in Hope.”
Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quoted in "About the Author" following The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Washington Square Press edition, 29th printing, 1963)
“Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.”
Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference and a longer view and finds them incongruous. It dampens enthusiasm; it mocks hope; it pardons shortcomings; it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.”
Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By reminding us of human finitude and weakness, religion also enjoins us not to place our ultimate hope in this passing world.”
Pope Benedict XVI (1927–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dear young friends, the Lord is asking you to be prophets of this new age, messengers of his love, drawing people to the Father and building a future of hope for all humanity.”
Pope Benedict XVI (1927–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.”
Barbara Kingsolver (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Winning and losing, that's never been my objective. It's my hope that in the fullness of time, the majority of the court will is come to see things as I do.”
Antonin Scalia (1936–2016) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: NPR interview with Nina Totenberg; as cited in Scalia: A Court of One, Bruce Allen Murphy, Simon & Schuster (2014), p. 374
“The life I had dreamed of so often during those hot summers on the farm in Georgia or during what seemed like endless hours on the oil truck with my grandfather, expired as Dr. King expired. As so many of you do, I still know exactly where I was when I heard the news. It was a low moment in our nation's history and a demarcation between hope and hopelessness for many of us.”
Clarence Thomas (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I began to suspect that Daddy had been right all along: the only hope I had of changing the world was to change myself first.”
Clarence Thomas (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.”
Dinah Craik (1826–1887) first seen 1865 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Christian's Mistake (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1865), Ch. 2, p. 64
“If you could not accept the past and its burden, there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other, and [...] if you could accept the past you might hope for the future, for only out of the past can you make the future.”
Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.”
Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm gonna give all I've got to give Cross my heart, and I hope to live.”
Phil Ochs (1940–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They say they can't believe it, it's a sacrilegious shame Now, who would want to hurt such a hero of the game? But you know I predicted it; I knew he had to fall How did it happen? I hope his suffering was small. Tell me every detail, I've got to know it all, And do you have a picture of the pain?”
Phil Ochs (1940–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are here today, not so much as to launch a political party but more so and more importantly we are here today to project a vision that will inspire hope.”
Epeli Ganilau (1951–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.”
Walter Pater (1839–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Education is spreading hope. Millions are now learning to live with HIV/AIDS — instead of waiting to die from it.”
Laura Bush (born 1946) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks at UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS (June 2, 2006)
“Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word "understanding.”
Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The human heart is a garden, wherein grow weeds of memory and blooms of hope, and the snow falls at last and covers all.”
Frank Crane (1861–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's a bit early in the midnight hour for me / To go through all the things that I want to be Take me away / Coz I just don't want to stay / And the lies you make me say / Are getting deeper every day If you're lost at sea / Well I hope that you drowned" Please don't cry / Never say die”
Noel Gallagher (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is anyone here prepared to say / Just what they mean or is it too late / For anyone here to try to do / Just what it takes to get through to you Let's all make believe / That we're still friends and we like each other Let's all make believe / That in the end we're gonna need each other Strangle my hope and make me pray / To a God I've never seen but who I betray”
Noel Gallagher (born 1967) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Let's All Make Believe, 2000
“Some very fine day/ I will step up your way,/ At least, if so you agree./ With two tales I've been writing, full of murders and fighting --/So I hope you'll be glad to seem me. (in a letter to her cousin in March, 1863)”
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Frances Hodgson Burnett by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Rutgers University Press (2004) page 20.
“I have to come clean; I've broken a lot of laws, and the ones I haven't I've certainly thought about. I have sinned in thought, word, and deed. God forgive me. Actually God forgave me, but why would you? I'm here getting a doctorate, getting respectable, getting in the good graces of the powers that be, I hope it sends you students a powerful message: Crime does pay.”
Bono (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate," he said frankly. "And books, they offer one hope – that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.”
Anne Rice (1941–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They (the Malay extremists) have triggered off something basic and fundamental. Malaysia — to whom does it belong? To Malaysians. But who are Malaysians? I hope I am, Mr Speaker, Sir. But sometimes, sitting in this chamber, I doubt whether I am allowed to be a Malaysian. This is the doubt that hangs over many minds, and the next contest, if this goes on, will be on very different lines.”
Lee Kuan Yew (1923–2015) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lee Kuan Yew in the Parliament of Malaysia (1965)
“We have a reputation, which I hope is somewhat deserved, that we are a kind of little Switzerland in South-East Asia.”
Lee Kuan Yew (1923–2015) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Commonwealth conference (1975), quoted in "The man who worked an economic miracle", The Times (20 December 1984), p. 8
“It is time to move forward together. Stronger for the bitter experiences we have shared, wiser for the suffering inflicted on us and more compassionate for having the capacity to forgive. For all its faults and cruelties, Fiji remains a country full of promise and hope simply demonstrated by the goodwill that has endured and the love we have for this land that is our home.”
Joni Madraiwiwi (1957–2016) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Our Country at the Crossroads - 2001 Parkinson Memorial Lecture Series, 15 August 2001.
“Gentiles and Jews worked together with the aid of America, England, France, the United Nations and set up the state of Israel, took land from the Palestinians, but you created a state for Israel and you created hope for Jews. All Jews are not there, but all Jews know that they have the right to go there.”
Louis Farrakhan (born 1933) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For he considered that, in many cases, but especially in war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.”
Livy (59 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[On David Blunkett] By a mile, it is the most illiberal, vindictive, biliously foaming Home Secretary of modern times. He has done more to destroy the concept of Labour being a party of equality and fairness than any other person... I hope his guide dog savages his ankles.”
George Galloway (born 1954) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "Those we have loved and loathed", The Independent (30 December 2003).
“I was very cruel to actors and to other people. I think I was a very, very unpleasant young man. If I met the young Ingmar today, I think I would say, "You are very talented and I will see if I can help you, but I don't think I want anything else to do with you." I don't say I'm pleasant now, but I think I changed slowly in my 50's. At least I hope I've changed.”
Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Ingmar Bergman: Summing Up A Life In Film" by Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times Magazine (26 June 1983)
“I hope I never get so old I get religious.”
Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in the International Herald Tribune (8 September 1989)