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“Then watchers of the life of man will know How spirits quickened in this ended reign, Till what was centuries stagnant 'gan to flow And what was centuries fettered moved again; How with this Ruler entered into rest The country's very self from slumber stirred, To charity as guide and hope as guestAnd ventured to a nobler marching word.”
John Masefield (1878–1967) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Arthur Groom, Edward The Eighth: Our King (1936). Masefield was Poet Laureate at the time.
“With thee, sweet Hope! resides the heav'nly light, That pours remotest rapture on the sight: Thine is the charm of life's bewilder'd way, That calls each slumb'ring passion into play.”
Thomas Campbell (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When peace and mercy, banish'd from the plain, Sprung on the viewless winds to Heav'n again; All, all forsook the friendless guilty mind, But Hope, the charmer, linger'd still behind.”
Thomas Campbell (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell, And Freedom shrieked—as Kosciusko fell!”
Thomas Campbell (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave, oh! leave the light of Hope behind!”
Thomas Campbell (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Patience lingers o'er the weedy shore, And, mutely waiting till the storm be o'er, Turns to young Hope, who still directs his eye To some blue spot, just breaking in the sky!”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) first seen 1809 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Sceptic: A Philosophical Satire (London: J. Carpenter, 1809), p. 26.
“I knew, by the smoke that so gracefully curl'd Above the green elms, that a cottage was near; And I said, "If there's peace to be found in the world, A heart that was humble might hope for it here.”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) said by 1852 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in my soul the still prayer of devotion, Unheard by the world, rises silent to Thee. As still to the star of its worship, though clouded, The needle points faithfully o'er the dim sea, So dark when I roam in this wintry world shrouded, The hope of my spirit turns trembling to Thee.”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) said by 1852 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the Pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing the people of Oregon what they want and need most - an era of hope, change, and economic renewal.”
Ted Kulongoski (born 1940) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ted Kulongoski, (January 13, 2003). "Speech by Governor Kulongoski: Inaugural Address", Oregon.gov, State of Oregon.
“Hello, my name is Zach Galifianakis, and I hope I'm pronouncing that right.”
Zach Galifianakis (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Anonymity relieves refactoring friction. Have learned that people want to sign things. But try to write in a way where you don’t have to know who said it. But when someone who is not in a giving mood uses anonymity (spammers), that abuse can drive us away from anonymity. But I hope we can drive the ill-intended out without having to give up the openness.”
Ward Cunningham (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Top down hierarchies make communication work when it is expensive, I hope that wiki can be a flagship in this move in the industry to produce computer support for this kind of work and evolve organizational forms.”
Ward Cunningham (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was our hope that Libya with its revolution would become a model of freedom, popular democracy and a state free from oppression and injustice. However Libya became another conventional state, even a dictatorial or police state. This is deeply regrettable. We are not like that, nor do we want to be like that.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to heads of justice of the Jamahiriya (20 May 2009)
“No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief.”
Thomas Hood (1799–1845) said by 1845 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.”
Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801–1866) first seen 1849 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Journal entry (August 1849).
“Pain and loss. Hope dimmed. Ambition quenched. Love becoming an unfunny joke on the lovers! Body saying aye; mind saying nay; now saying can; future saying can’t.”
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A dictum [Beckett] quotes from his favourite philosopher, the second-generation Cartesian Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669) suggests his overall stance toward the political: ubi nihil vales, ibi nihil velis, which may be glossed: Don’t invest hope or longing in an arena where you have no power.”
J. M. Coetzee (born 1940) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Making of Samuel Beckett,” New York Review of Books, vol. LVI, no. 7 (April 30, 2009), p. 13
“You are father-born. You have no mother. The pain you feel is the pain of lack, not the pain of loss. What you hope to regain in my person you have in truth never had.”
J. M. Coetzee (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief; Or at least, faith unbelief.”
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) said by 1861 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule.”
Michael Ignatieff (born 1947) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nation Building Lite", New York Times Magazine (July 2002)
“Whatever time thy golden eyelids ope They travel to a hope; Not only backward from these low degrees To starry dynasties, But, looking far where now the silence owns And rules from empty thrones, Thou seest the enchanted halls of heaven burn For joy at our return.”
George William Russell (1867–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Only in the self we grope To the misty end of time: Truth has put an end to hope. What of all the heart to love? Sadder than for will or soul, No light lured it on above; Love has found itself the whole.”
George William Russell (1867–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The hope lives on age after age, Earth with its beauty might be won For labor as a heritage, For this has Ireland lost a son.”
George William Russell (1867–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here's to you, men I never met, Yet hope to meet behind the veil, Thronged on some starry parapet, That looks down upon Innisfail, And sees the confluence of dreams That clashed together in our night, One river, born from many streams, Roll in one blaze of blinding light.”
George William Russell (1867–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To believe in meaning of any sort is to have faith in some version of ‘God.’ Finite or infinite, mortal or immortal, the intentional form is conserved–and as I hope to show, that form is supernatural.”
R. Scott Bakker (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.”
R. Scott Bakker (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The World in which we live and move Outlasts aversion, outlasts love: Outlasts each effort, interest, hope, Remorse, grief, joy.”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Still nursing the unconquerable hope, Still clutching the inviolable shade, With a free, onward impulse brushing through, By night, the silver’d branches of the glade.”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They follow’d me, my hope, my fame, my star.”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Radiant with ardour divine! Beacons of Hope ye appear! Languor is not in your heart, Weakness is not in your word, Weariness not on your brow.”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hope is like a harebell, trembling from its birth, Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth, Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white, Love is like a lovely rose, the world’s delight. Harebells and sweet lilies show a thornless growth, But the rose with all its thorns excels them both.”
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hope is like a Harebell; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.”
Yoshida Shoin (1830–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As things stand now the feudal lords are content to look on while the shogunate carries on in a highhanded manner. Neither the lords nor the shogun can be depended upon, and so our only hope lies in grass-roots heroes.”
Yoshida Shoin (1830–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food.”
Yoshida Shoin (1830–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Writing about yourself is addictive. I hope all you kids noticed that. If you feel like autobiography, try heroin. Lots safer and easier to control…”
John Barnes (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hope...Her Majesty's Ministers...will...say that the Soudan must be left to its own people to work out their own deliverance in their own fashion.”
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn (1838–1923) first seen 1885 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons against the Mahdist War (23 February 1885)
“[S]till hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.”
Thucydides (461–395 BC) said by 395 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can now, if you choose, employ your present success to advantage, so as to keep what you have got and gain honour and reputation besides, and you can avoid the mistake of those who meet with an extraordinary piece of good fortune, and are led on by hope to grasp continually at something further, through having already succeeded without expecting it.”
Thucydides (461–395 BC) said by 395 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[A]nd their judgment was based more upon blind wishing than upon any sound prediction; for it is a habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire.”
Thucydides (461–395 BC) said by 395 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hope, danger's comforter...”
Thucydides (461–395 BC) said by 395 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I live on hope and that I think do all Who come into this world.”
Robert Bridges (1844–1930) said by 1930 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There seems to be no limit to the possibilities of scientific medicine, and while philanthropists are turning to it as to the hope of humanity, philosophers see, as in some far-off vision, a science from which may come in the prophetic words of the Son of Sirach, "Peace over all the earth.”
William Osler (1849–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is probably not too much to say that the hope of progress--moral and intellectual as well as material--in the future is bound up with the fortunes of science, and that every obstacle placed in the way of scientific discovery is a wrong to humanity.”
James Frazer (1854–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape.”
Charles Dickens (1812–1870) said by 1870 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“YOU FUCKING WHORE!!! You used me! You never loved me! I hope you slide under a gas truck and taste your fucking own blood! DIE! DIE! DIE! I want my records back! I want my fucking records back!”
Sam Kinison (1953–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sanjay Leela Bhansali brings out the best in me, both personally and professionally. I think we have a Karmic connection and I hope he'll agree!”
Rani Mukerji (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Magic words and incantations are as fatal to our science as they are to any other. Methods, when classified and separated, acquire their true bearing and perspective as a means to an end, not as ends in themselves. We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is an illusion.”
Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hope if we've done anything, it's to show you that this is a new day for Nintendo. We remain all about the game, all about the gamer, or in other words, all about you.”
Reggie Fils-Aimé (born 1961) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Source: E3 2004
“Anyone who forces something on someone and then says he will be better for it—you will, I hope, understand me when I say this is difficult to appreciate.”
Harry Turtledove (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do you see things in black and white, or are there shades of gray for you?” “I hope there’s gray, Menefee said. “Black and white make things easier, but only if you don’t want to think.”
Harry Turtledove (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source