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“Where the light is, and each thing clear, Separate from all others, standing in its place, I drink the time and touch whatever's near, And hope for day when the whole world has that face: For what assures her present every year? In dark accidents the mind's sufficient grace.”
Delmore Schwartz (1913–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They call me deranged. The hope is that they are right! It is of no greater or lesser import for yet another fool to wander this Earth. But if I am right and science is wrong, then may the Lord God have mercy on mankind!”
Viktor Schauberger (1885–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Utopia is born of the hunger for something better, but it relies on hope as the engine for imagining such a future. I wanted to take what I considered the most fruitful ideas of the various movements for social change and make them vivid and concrete – that was the real genesis of Woman on the Edge of Time.”
Marge Piercy (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Next year we shall be living in a country That brought its soldiers home for lack of money. The statues will be standing in the same Tree-muffled squares, and look nearly the same. Our children will not know it’s a different country. All we can hope to leave them now is money.”
Philip Larkin (1922–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I sincerely hope I'm not as big a fool as that. Whatever else I may be, I like to think that I'm not an idiot.”
Caitlín R. Kiernan (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All I have to do is make you see this. This one particular thing here. That's all. And sometimes it's impossible. Sometimes, I know the best odds I can hope for are a thousand to one. You'll see what you see, what your life has conditioned you to see upon encountering that combination of words, not what I want or need you to see. Fiction writing is like making films for the blind.”
Caitlín R. Kiernan (born 1964) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (19 January 2005)
“If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?”
Richard Rorty (1931–2007) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview by Gideon Lewis-Kraus, in The Believer (June 2003)
“No more Hope, no more Glory, no more parades for you and me any more. Nor for the country... nor for the world, I dare say... None... Gone.”
Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939) first seen 1925 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Parade's End: No More Parades (1925) [Random House, ] (p. 307)
“On one of my last days at school, aged 15, my headmaster predicted that I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire ... So for anyone anxious about their A-level results today, I hope this brings you some encouragement!”
Richard Branson (born 1950) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Post on X (15 August 2024), as cite in Martha Gill "A-levels are far from perfect, but in the exam hall every pupil – rich or poor – is equally afraid", The Observer (18 August 2024)
“I hope I will live to see a final meeting of the minds between Puerto Rico and statehood, but [even] if I don't live that long, I am certain it will happen.”
Luis A. Ferré (1904–2003) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by the Associated Press after the 1998 status referendum in Puerto Rico.
“One of the side-effects of having your work appear in a public forum such as this is that people often email me asking for advice on how to break into writing, presumably figuring that if a drooling gum-brain like me can scrape a living witlessly pawing at a keyboard, there's hope for anyone.”
Charlie Brooker (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hope this place don't never change”
Ryan Adams (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist.”
Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) said by 1917 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed to Rodin in H. Read (1964), as cited in: Karl H. Pfenninger, Valerie R. Shubik, Bruce Adolphe (2001). The Origins of Creativity. p. 50
“A group of painters assembled in my home, read with pleasure the article you published in 'L'Avenir national'. We are all very pleased to see you defend ideas which are also ours, and we hope that, as you say, 'L'Avenir national' will kindly lend us its support when the Society we are in the process of forming is finally established.”
Claude Monet (1840–1926) first seen 1873 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in a Letter to , May 1873; as quoted by Sue Roe, The private live of the Impressionists, Harper Collins Publishers, New York, 2006, p. 120
“I won't be here long, I am working as hard as I can, as I told you [in a letter] yesterday, I am very happy to be here Etretat, Normandy] and I hope to come up with something good, in any case I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.”
Claude Monet (1840–1926) first seen 1883 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote in Monet's letter from Etretat to his second [future] wife Alice Hoschedé, 1883; as cited in: K.E. Sullivan. Monet: Discovering Art, Brockhampton press, London (2004), p. 51
“Once settled, I hope to produce masterpieces, because I like the countryside very much.”
Claude Monet (1840–1926) said by 1926 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in a letter to Paul Durand-Ruel: as quoted in: Daniel Wildensteijn "Monet's Giveny" in: Monet's Years at Giverny: Beyond Impressionism, (1978) p. 16: About the countryside in
“I have at last found a suitable spot and settled her. I have already spend a few days working and started eight canvases, which I hope, if the weather favours me, will give an idea of Norway and the environs of Christiania.. .This morning I was painting under constant falling snow. You would have burst out laughing seeing me white all over, my beard overgrown with icicles.”
Claude Monet (1840–1926) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in his letter from Sandviken to Gustave Geffroy, late January 1895; (Geoffrey, 1922, vol 2 pp. 87-88); as cited in: Nathalia Brodskaya, Claude Monet, 2011, p. 106
“I was thinking of preparing my palette and my brushes to resume work, but relapses and further bouts of pain prevented it. I'm not giving up that hope and am occupying myself with some major alterations in my studios and plans to perfect the garden [in Giverny ]. All this to show you that, with courage, I'm getting the upper hand. [three months before Monet died]”
Claude Monet (1840–1926) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from Monet's letter to Georges Clemenceau, Sept. 1926; as cited in: K.E. Sullivan. Monet: Discovering Art, Brockhampton press, London (2004), p. 79
“The example would spread, and I am not without hope that one or more great European Powers would eventually make a similar agreement with us and the United States. The effect of such agreements on disarmament and the morale of international politics would be considerable.”
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862–1933) first seen 1911 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement on the Treaty of General Arbitration with the United States (March 1911), quoted in G. M. Trevelyan, Grey of Fallodon; Being the Life of Sir Edward Grey afterwards Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1937), p. 206
“Without expanding on the greater or lesser accuracy of a name which nobody, I should hope, can really be expected to understand, I will limit myself to a few words of elucidation in order to cut short the misunderstandings.”
Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) said by 1877 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If invited, you would go to this person's wedding and give them a spice rack, but you would secretly hope that their marriage ends in a bitter, public divorce.”
Chuck Klosterman (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My art flatters nobody by imitation, it courts nobody by smoothness, nobody by petitelieness without either fal-de-lal or fiddle-de-dee; how then can I hope to be popular?”
John Constable (1776–1837) first seen 1832 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from John Constable's letter to Mr. C.R. Leslie 22 June 1832
“I hope he slams into the side of the mountain and cougars eat his face.”
Kerry Jackson first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Radio From Hell (September 11, 2007)
“I hope to see the very concept of Jewry completely obliterated.”
Heinrich Himmler (1900–1945) first seen 1941 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (23 March 1941) Quoted in Benno Müller-Hill Murderous Science" (1998), p. 48
“I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ.”
Mike Huckabee (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hope I did not alarm you unduly with my little display last night. I get into character sometimes, find it hard to know when I’m causing distress. My apologies, if any are required. If not, then please accept them in any event, on account, to be banked against any future transgression.”
Iain Banks (1954–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hope could be more painful than despair.”
Iain Banks (1954–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think the reason we [Baziotes himself and Richard Lippold ] begin in a different way, is that this particular time has gotten to a point where the artist feels like a gambler. He does something on the canvas and takes a chance in the hope that something important will be revealed.”
William Baziotes (1912–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hope my work is recognizable as being by a woman, though I certainly would never deliberately make it feminine in any way, in subject or treatment. But if I speak in a voice which is my own, it's bound to be the voice of a woman.”
Isabel Bishop (1902–1988) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1978 statement, as quoted in The "New Woman" Revised : Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street (1992) by Ellen Wiley Todd, Ch. 7, p. 273.
“I hope to paint something that will ruin the appetite of every son of a bitch who ever eats in that room.”
Mark Rothko (1903–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The New Yorker (April 5, 2010), p. 26
“Two truths that most men will never believe: one that we know nothing, the other that we are nothing. Add the third, which depends a lot on the second: that there is nothing to hope for after death.”
Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837) first seen 1832 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1832. Passions. Translation by Tim Parks. [Yale University Press, 2014, ], p. 8
“The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.”
Henry Taylor (1800–1886) said by 1886 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hope...that this country will never depart from that policy which has secured its safety, namely, that of being strong as a naval Power, and at the same time not attempting to enter into competition with the great military Powers of Europe.”
Robert Peel (1788–1850) first seen 1845 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons (30 July 1845)
“I hope that whoever stole it, stole it because they loved it, and not because of all the hype.”
Stella Vine (born 1969) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lomax, Cathy. Lost Kitten, Retrieved 29 January 2009.
“I have always been drawn to the beauty and the tragedy of Diana’s life which I hope I’ve captured in this new series of paintings. I wanted to show her”
Stella Vine (born 1969) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kallaway, Stella Vine's Latest Exhibition Modern Art Oxford, (2007-07-14).
“If the United States go wrong what hope have we of the civilized world in our turn?”
Richard Cobden (1804–1865) first seen 1852 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Joseph Sturge (29 September 1852), as quoted in Gettysburg: The Last Invasion (2013), by Allen C. Guelzo, p. xviii
“It is the universal hope of rising in the social scale which is the key to much of the superiority that is visible in this country. It accounts for the orderly self-respect which is the great characteristic of the masses in the United States. ... All this tends to the argument that the political condition of a people is very much dependent on its economical fate.”
Richard Cobden (1804–1865) first seen 1858 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to John Bright during his visit to the United States (1858), quoted in John Morley, The Life of Richard Cobden [1879] (1905), p. 688
“He reminds me of that excitement when De Niro and I stumbled upon a way of working together - a similar kind of energy to the actors in the 1970s. It’s very rare for me to find that kind of connection again. Leo will give me the emotion where I least expect it and could only hope for it about three or four scenes. And he can do it take after take.”
Leonardo DiCaprio (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Men are naturally disposed to listen to, and believe those who make them hope for an end to their miseries. Misfortunes render them timorous and credulous, and lead them to superstition. A fanatic easily makes conquests among a wretched people. It is not then wonderful that Jesus should soon acquire partizans, especially among the populace who in every country are easily seduced.”
Baron d'Holbach (1723–1789) said by 1789 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Burton sighed, laughed loudly, and said, “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” Another fairy tale to give men hope. The old religions have been discredited — although some refuse to face even that fact — so new ones must be invented.”
Philip José Farmer (1918–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yet for this we travelled With hope, and not alone, In the country of ourselves, In a country of bright stone.”
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No. I don't think so. I hope not.”
Rachel Trachtenburg (born 1993) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On whether or not she'd rebel against her parents (Miami Herald December 13, 2006
“I hope our DVD comes out better than this!”
Rachel Trachtenburg (born 1993) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't see myself as the Great Black Hope. I'm just a golfer who happens to be black and Asian. It doesn't matter whether they're white, black, brown or green.”
Tiger Woods (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you see what goes on inside a slaughterhouse, I think you'll lose your appetite for animal flesh, too… Animals feel pain, just as people do. They value their lives, just as we value ours. They're terrified by the sights and smells of the slaughterhouse, and they fight for every last breath. I hope you'll also make the compassionate choice to go vegetarian.”
R. Madhavan (born 1970) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Be kind to animals, go vegetarian, appeals R Madhavan", (4 October 2012).
“Just let the people know that they matter to you, that your plan is to mobilize the government to help them. If you can give them hope that things will be better, they'll bless you, Franklin.”
Frances Perkins (1880–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But knowing that the one part consisted of Sadducees, and the other of Pharisees, Paul cried out in the sanhedrin, Men, brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees; I am being judged concerning hope and resurrection of the dead!”
Paul of Tarsus (5–66) said by 66 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The first ghosts trembled with hope, and their excitement passed back like a ripple over the long line behind them, young children and aged parents alike looking up and ahead with delight and wonder as the first stars they had seen for centuries shone through into their poor starved eyes.”
Philip Pullman (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.”
James Jeans (1877–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What could be more fascinating than discovering life that had evolved entirely independently of life here on Earth? Many people would also find it heartening to learn that we are not entirely alone in this vast cold cosmos. But I hope that our Mars probes will discover nothing. It would be good news if we find Mars to be completely sterile. Dead rocks and lifeless sands would lift my spirit.”
Nick Bostrom (born 1973) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Where Are They? Why I Hope the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Finds Nothing (2008)