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• “One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.”

  Andy Goldsworthy (born 1956) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: He's got the whole world in his hands, The Telegraph (24 March 2007)

• “once I was open, could hope, I had no doubt but that was the worst thing that I could do”

  Natalie Merchant (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.”

  Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Why Theo Van Gogh Was Murdered (November 15, 2004).

• “If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is “pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television,” then we can neither mount a convincing intellectual defense against our enemies, nor hope to integrate intelligent, inquiring, and unfulfilled Muslim youths—young men principally, of course—to our way of life.”

  Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Cost of Frivolity (February 1, 2007).

• “Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.”

  Alexander Hamilton (1757–1804) said by 1804 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “My hope is that the description of God's love in my life will give you the freedom and the courage to discover . . . God's love in yours.”

  Henri Nouwen (1932–1996) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Here and Now: Living in the Spirit (1994), pg. 175

• “Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!”

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) said by 1873 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Alone!—that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, Of hope laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!”

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) said by 1873 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Memory, no less than hope, owes its charm to "the far-away.”

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) said by 1873 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I have many times resigned myself to never finding a true way out. But a new hope always emerges telling me that it is not yet too late for all of us to take stock and make a decision. I was brought up to believe in free will.”

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “As a Texas loyalist who followed Bush to Washington with great hope and personal affection and as a proud member of his administration, I was all too ready to give him and his highly experienced foreign policy advisers the benefit of the doubt on Iraq. Unfortunately, subsequent events have showed that our willingness to trust the judgment of Bush and his team was misplaced.”

  Scott McClellan (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I do not disguise from myself the fact that I can never make all the members of our nation equally happy and contented. But I have good hope that I shall succeed in bringing about a state of things with which all can be content who have the will to be so.”

  Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If I were but sure that I should live to see the coming of the Lord, it would be the joyfulest tidings in the world. O that I might see His kingdom come! It is the characteristic of His saints to love His appearing, and to look for that blessed hope. "The Spirit and the bride say, Come." "Even so, come, Lord Jesus.”

  Richard Baxter (1615–1691) said by 1691 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 102.

• “Losing hope is easy When your only friend is gone And every time you look around Well, it all, it all just seems to change But hanging on is easy When you've got a friend to call When nothings making sense at all You're not the only one that's afraid of change”

  Jack Johnson (musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “They have no hope here or hereafter," answered Conan. "Their gods are Crom and his dark race, who rule over a sunless place of everlasting mist, which is the world of the dead. Mitra! The ways of the Aesir were more to my liking.”

  Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The spirit may triumph where politics (the League and the United Nations), socio-political faiths such as Marxism, Italian Fascism and German National-Socialism — all have failed. I see our only hope in faith, charity, and in humbling ourselves before man and God.”

  Patrick White (1912–1990) said by 1990 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “As long as young people feel they have got no hope but to blow themselves up you are never going to make progress.”

  Cherie Blair (born 1954) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Charles Reiss, Hugh Muir "Cherie suicide bombing gaffe", Evening Standard (18 June 2002), p. 1

• “In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.”

  Stendhal (1783–1842) said by 1842 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Fortune is lavish with her favors, but not to be depended on. Nature on the other hand is self-sufficing, and therefore with her feebler but trustworthy [resources] she wins the greater [meed] of hope.”

  Democritus (461–361 BC) said by 361 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “At the first stages of negotiations, we will not release prisoners with blood on their hands. However, as part of a final agreement, I do not rule out this option. Offering hope for a better future is more important than grieving the past.”

  Amir Peretz (born 1952) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Source: TV interview by Menashe Raz, Oded Shachar and Maya Bengal, on Channel 1, October 16, 2005.

• “Tell her I am seriously hurt; how seriously I cannot yet say. I am myself, and hope she will come to me soon. I send my love to her.”

  James A. Garfield (1831–1881) first seen 1881 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Message to his wife on being shot (2 July 1881), in The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield (1881) by E. E. Brown, p. 217

• “Fellow-Citizens: We stand to-day upon an eminence which overlooks a hundred years of national life — a century crowded with perils, but crowned with the triumphs of liberty and law. Before continuing the onward march let us pause on this height for a moment to strengthen our faith and renew our hope by a glance at the pathway along which our people have traveled.”

  James A. Garfield (1831–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Under this Constitution the boundaries of freedom have been enlarged, the foundations of order and peace have been strengthened, and the growth of our people in all the better elements of national life has indicated the wisdom of the founders and given new hope to their descendants.”

  James A. Garfield (1831–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I can never consent to being dictated to as to what I shall or shall not do. I, as President, shall be responsible for my administration. I hope to have your hearty co-operation in carrying out its measures. So long as you see fit to do this, I shall be glad to have you with me. When you think otherwise, your resignations will be accepted.”

  John Tyler (1790–1862) first seen 1841 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Cabinet meeting (1841), as retold by John Alexander Tyler.

• “I did recommend to the last Parliament the Forming some good Bill for the Encouragement and Increase of Seamen; I hope you will not let this Session pass without doing somewhat in it; and that you will consider of such Laws as may be proper for the advancement of Trade, and will have a particular regard to that of the East-Indies, lest it should be lost to the Nation.”

  William III of England (1650–1702) first seen 1695 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech to Parliament (23 November 1695), quoted in White Kennett, A Complete History of England: With the lives of All the Kings and Queens Thereof; From the Earliest Account of Time, to the Death of His late Majesty Ki…

• “South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.”

  Desmond Tutu (1931–2021) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted in "Truth and reconciliation" at BBC Focus on Africa (January-March 2000)

• “Whether Jews like it or not, they are a peculiar people. They can't ever hope to be judged by the same standards which are used for other people.”

  Desmond Tutu (1931–2021) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted in "Bishop Tutu's sordid history of Jew-hatred", Jersusalem Post (2 June 2012)

• “God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure it, and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the constitution, till we can get rid of it without destroying the last hope of free government in the world.”

  Millard Fillmore (1800–1874) first seen 1850 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Regarding enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act (1850), as quoted in Millard Fillmore: Biography of a President (1959), by Robert J. Rayback, p. 252 and p. 271

• “I hope you will be benefitted by your churchgoing. Where the habit does not Christianize, it generally civilizes. That is reason enough for supporting churches, if there were no higher.”

  Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) first seen 1875 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter to his son, Webb Hayes (26 February 1875)

• “A republic worth living in is worth fighting for, and sacrificing for, and dying for. In the fires of this conflict we shall wipe out the disloyalty of those who wear American garb without the faith, and establish a new concord of citizenship and a new devotion, so that we should have made a safe America the home and hope of a people who are truly American in heart and soul.”

  Warren G. Harding (1865–1923) said by 1923 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Which means that we are seriously mistaken when we hope to see science play a role as an instrument of progress and civilization.”

  Alexander Zinoviev (1922–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “To fully feel Western freedom, one must lose all hope of losing freedom. For the Russian, Western freedom is above all solitude. p. 89”

  Alexander Zinoviev (1922–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then — he needn't hope to find himself again.”

  Robert Bolt (1924–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “To fall asleep in your embrace, Land of our dreams, what bliss, O you our cradle, you our grave, You the new hope we ever crave, Peninsula so beautiful, Finland for aye our all!”

  Aleksis Kivi (1834–1872) said by 1872 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.”

  Ouida (1839–1908) first seen 1881 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: A Village Commune (1881)

• “I am sure I am as little of a Jacobite as anybody but I sincerely hope that the statue of James II will not be moved, because it is a fine work of art. If once we begin moving statues for political or historical reasons there will be no end to controversy.”

  G. M. Trevelyan (1876–1962) first seen 1958 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter to The Times (13 March 1958), p. 11

• “Alone, as before, in the universe Without hope and without love!..”

  Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841) first seen 1830 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Demon" (1830)

• “We hope that the end result is a just verdict that is also truthful, even though all sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.”

  Alan Dershowitz (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “A group called the Azov Brigade fought bravely to defend eastern Ukraine, holding out in Mariupol's Azovstal Steel Plant for weeks after others had given up hope. Unfortunately, the same Azov Brigade has proudly boasted of its neo-Nazi ideology and wore their own version of the swastika until it was no longer convenient for them to do so.”

  Alan Dershowitz (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.”

  Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The New York Times (11 December 2005)

• “Let us pardon him his hope of a vain apocalypse, and of a second coming in great triumph upon the clouds of heaven. Perhaps these were the errors of others rather than his own; and if it be true that he himself shared the general illusion, what matters it, since his dream rendered him strong against death, and sustained him in a struggle to which he might otherwise have been unequal?”

  Ernest Renan (1823–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If you gave me just a coin for every time we say goodbye Well I'd be rich beyond my dreams, I'm sorry for my weary life I know I'm not perfect but I can smile and I hope that you see this heart behind my tired eyes.”

  Dido (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Could you look at animal in the eyes and say to it "my appetite is more important than your suffering"? I hope not.”

  Moby (born 1965) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: from essay included with The End Of Everything (1996)

• “Ask no more, then, "what is best, How shall those you love be blest," Ask at once eternal Rest, Peace and assurance giving. Rest of Life and not of death, Rest in Love and Hope and Faith, Til the God who gives their breath Calls them to rest from living.”

  James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) first seen 1854 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Part III Poems, "On St. David's Day. To Mrs. E. C. Morrieson." (March 1, 1854)

• “I'm comfortable apart, it's all written on my chartAnd I take what's given me, most cooperativelyI do what people say and lie in bed all dayAbsolutely horrified, I hope you're satisfied”

  Elliott Smith (1969–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and secure basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the author of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand firm and stable.”

  Augustus (63 BC–14) said by 14 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “This entire opus is respectfully dedicated to all those who have loved unconditionally only to have their hearts unanaesthetically ripped out: Base not your joy on the deeds of others, for what is given can be taken away. No hope = No fear.”

  Peter Steele (1962–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Wait, thou child of hope, for Time shall teach thee all things.”

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Never give up! it is wiser and better Always to hope, than once to despair. Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter, And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.”

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “For life, good youth, hath never an ill Which hope cannot scatter, and faith cannot kill; And stubborn realities never shall bind The free-spreading wings of a cheerful mind.”

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

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