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“If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.”
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929–1994) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Press conference held at the Grand Central Terminal’s famous Oyster Bar in 1975 in New York City. Source: Angela Serratore (June 26, 2018 ): History: The Preservation Battle of Grand Central. In: Smithsonian Magazine. A…
“We have known so much & shared & lost so much together—Even if it isn’t the way you wish now—I hope that bond of love and pain will never be cut.”
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter to David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech, as quoted in the article "The One That Got Away: A Trove of Jacqueline Kennedy’s Love Letters Has Been Found" (9 February 2017)
“Have I? I hope somebody beats it out of me very, very soon.”
Anthony Stewart Head (1954–2026) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 60 seconds interview by Bel Jacobs, Metro (17 November 2003).
“I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.”
Anthony Stewart Head (1954–2026) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anthony Stewart Head at Toronto Trek, July 12, 2003.
“Not, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of man In me or, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I see with horror that the 'Salon Automne' is looming, for I haven't got, and shan't have, all I meant to be able to show there, the big stillife ['Harmony in Red'] has taken up so much of my time; but since I am content with the outcome, I tell myself one can't hope to be fast as well as good.”
Henri Matisse (1869–1954) first seen 1869 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Sergei Shchukin [the Russian buyer of his still-life The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room), that year], 6 August 1908; as quoted by w:Hilary Spurling, The Unknown Matisse: Man of the North, 1869 – 1908, P…
“Dreams, she said. Broken dreams are bad enough. But the dream that has no hope...the dream that is doomed long before it’s broken, that’s the worst of all.”
Clifford D. Simak (1904–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“McKay tells me that you went home sick,” she said. “Personally, I hope you don’t survive.”
Clifford D. Simak (1904–1988) first seen 1950 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Skirmish” (p. 44); originally published in Amazing Stories, December 1950
“I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I’m really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.”
Jane Espenson (born 1964) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jane Espenson - Interviewed at the Buffy soundstage" at BBC (23 August 2001)
“I can't make real-life workplaces safer and more fair for women just by showing them with briefcases or crossbows. But I can try to grant my characters the quirky gift of humanity — whether they're adjudicating torts or dishing tortes or saving the world. And hope the little girls watching do the rest.”
Jane Espenson (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At the vital moment there seems to be a failure of leadership, and also a failure of the general human spirit among the peoples. I hope I am wrong, but I have a sense of impending calamity, a fear that the war was only the vanguard of calamity ... I cannot look at that draft treaty without a sense of grief and shame.”
Jan Smuts (1870–1950) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Smuts to Mary Murray, wife of Gilbert Murray, on the Treaty of Versailles, 2 June 1919, as cited in Antony Lentin, 2010, Jan Smuts – Man of courage and vision, p. 106.
“It is never presumptuous for anyone to hope for realization. It is the goal of creation and the birthright of humanity. Blessed are they who are prepared to assert that right in this very life.”
Meher Baba (1894–1969) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Message to Garrett Fort (1936)
“In no nation are the institutions of progress more advanced. In no nation are the fruits of accomplishment more secure. In no nation is the government more worthy of respect. No country is more loved by its people. I have an abiding faith in their capacity, integrity and high purpose. I have no fears for the future of our country. It is bright with hope.”
Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On 9/11, those of us who do the jobs that I do, flew without a net for hour and hour and hour after end. And then you hope and pray that you've had the experience to be up to it. Because then you're editor, analyst, reporter, correspondent, ringmaster, the whole thing.”
Peter Jennings (1938–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Not to go on for ever repeating what man has already done is our work, but to arrive at new realisations and undreamed-of masteries. Time and soul and world are given us for our field, vision and hope and creative imagination stand for our prompters, will and thought and labour are our all-effective instruments.”
Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A Messiah who actually arrives is no good to anybody. A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.”
Michael Chabon (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now in the 1980's, a moment of history and a sense of hope call your generation to work as great as any that has gone before -- the work of peace. The challenge comes with special warning now because the danger has become so present and so clear. The difference each of you can make, if all of you try, may mean the difference between peace and war, between a just society and a garrison state.”
Ted Kennedy (1932–2009) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address at Brown University (4 June 1983)
“I hope for an America where neither "fundamentalist" nor "humanist" will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different ways in which people of good will look at life and into their own souls.”
Ted Kennedy (1932–2009) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech on "Truth and Tolerance in America," Oct. 3, 1983, Delivered at Liberty University, Lynchburg, Va. Cited by latimes.com, 26 August 2009
“For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.”
Ted Kennedy (1932–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the time, he hoped they would understand that his arrogance masked only shyness—or did he hope that it was his shyness which masked arrogance? He did not know. Who could presume to know? The one quality holds much of the other. Both refuse to come forward and share.”
Brian Aldiss (1925–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we can see our difficulties, there is a way of resolving them, or the hope of a way.”
Brian Aldiss (1925–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope that I execute a rather unseemly glide across it.”
David Lange (1942–2005) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Source: Gliding on the Lino: The Wit of David Lange", compiled by David Barber, 1987.
“There is a hope, which I nurse but I don't see being realized, that eventually we'll find that quantum mechanics as we know it now is just an approximation ...”
Steven Weinberg (1933–2021) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (Steven Weinberg interviewed by Richard Dawkins in 2008; quote at 58:49 of 1:14:51 in video)
“I hope the readers will let me know of any mistakes... I will post them on... zippy.ph.utexas.edu/~weinberg/corrections.html.”
Steven Weinberg (1933–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...if the music stops and there's only the sound of the rain All the hope and glory -- All the sacrifice in vain (And) If love remains, though everything is lost We will pay the price, but we will not count the cost -- Bravado (1991)”
Neil Peart (1952–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hear the sound of gunfire at the prison gate, Are the liberators here? Do I hope or do I fear? For my father and my brother, it’s too late but I must help my mother stand up straight. Are we the last ones left alive? Are we the only human beings to survive? -- Red Sector A (1984)”
Neil Peart (1952–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Conservatives are nationalists. Liberals hope for world government.”
Mike Rosen (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If one has no courage to denounce, if one bows to madness and stupidity, how can one ever hope to cope with the other wrongs of humanity exploited in the same fashion by Communists?”
Madame Nhu (1924–2011) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letters to the Times: Mrs. Nhu Defends Stand", The New York Times, 14 August 1963. Referring to the self-immolation of Buddhist monks protesting government actions.
“Faith is beyond me. I will settle for hope.”
Roger Zelazny (1937–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the beginning was nature. The background from which and against our ideas of God were formed, nature remains the supreme moral problem. We cannot hope to understand sex and gender until we clarify our attitude toward nature. Sex is a subset to nature. Sex is the natural in man.”
Camille Paglia (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He pulled a groin. His own we hope!”
Keith Olbermann (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Radiohead gave me hope. They were the band who gave me permission. I'm a public schoolboy from Devon and I'm not supposed to be in a band. Well, they proved I could. I thought, I'm a bit like them. Jonny was OK because he's northern and so is Guy.”
Chris Martin (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One day in Haiti I was talking to a farmer. I said, 'I don't have any solution to these problems.' He said, 'Of course you don't! You're a singer.' He was right. Music is what I live for - and as Coldplay, our main job is to make the best music we can. But I hope that in our small way we can do something to raise awareness.”
Chris Martin (born 1977) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Fair Trade, 2003. source
“They were happy years, the four I spent in Glasgow, for I was young and ardent, and had not yet suffered the grave miscarriage of hope which is our human lot.”
John Buchan (1875–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God—she has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind. She is the channel of the eternal purpose of Heaven.”
John Buchan (1875–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The promise had not failed her. . . . She had won everything from life, for she had given the world a master. Words seemed to speak themselves in her ear. . . . "Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.”
John Buchan (1875–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And yet — and yet! He had done the right thing, though the Lord alone knew how it would end. He began to pluck courage from his very melancholy, and hope from his reflexions on the transitoriness of life. He was austerely following Romance as he conceived it, and if that capricious lady had taken one dream from him she might yet reward him with a better.”
John Buchan (1875–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But even the steady state, our best-hope future, may not be achievable without space. Without power and materials from space we are doomed to shuffle a known—in fact diminishing—stockpile of resources around the planet. Some players get rich; others get poor. But it’s not even a zero-sum game; in the long term we are all losers.”
Stephen Baxter (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So the HP guy comes up to me (at the Melbourne conference) and he says, 'If you say nasty things like that to vendors you're not going to get anything'. I said 'no, in eight years of saying nothing, we've got nothing, and I'm going to start saying nasty things, in the hope that some of these vendors will start giving me money so I'll shut up'.”
Theo de Raadt (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hope, that in our archives and historical filings of the future, we do not allow the techie traditions of hierarchy and false regularity to be superimposed to the teeming, fantastic disorderlyness of human life.”
Ted Nelson (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A truce to philosophy! — Life is before me and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread.”
Mary Shelley (1797–1851) said by 1851 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]he food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.”
H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“While we breathe there is hope, and all that seems lost still may be won”
H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always; like God, to love always—this is duty.”
Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881) first seen 1849 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 27 May 1849
“Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.”
Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1890), p. 368
“Nobody has seen the trekking birds take their way towards such warmer spheres as do not exist, or rivers break their course through rocks and plains to run into an ocean which is not to be found. For God does not create a longing or a hope without having a fulfilling reality ready for them. But our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.”
Karen Blixen (1885–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let us be very gentle with our neighbours' failings; and forgive our friends their debts, as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.”
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) said by 1863 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?”
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) said by 1863 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love... It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigour of the earlier world?”
William Morris (1834–1896) first seen 1882 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The History of Pattern-Designing" lecture (1882) The Collected Works of William Morris (1910 - 1915) Vol. 22
“Of Heaven or Hell I have no power to sing, I cannot ease the burden of your fears, Or make quick-coming death a little thing, Or bring again the pleasure of past years, Nor for my words shall ye forget your tears, Or hope again for aught that I can say, The idle singer of an empty day.”
William Morris (1834–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source