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• “I shall add that only he who has decided to commit suicide can start a nuclear war in the hope of emerging a victor from it. No matter what the attacker might possess, no matter what method of unleashing nuclear war he chooses, he will not attain his aims. Retribution will inevitably ensue.”

  Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted in Soviet Strategy and the New Military Thinking (1992) by Derek Leebaert and Timothy Dickinson, p. 68

• “We cannot hope to give here a final clarification of the essence of fact, judgement, object, property; this task leads into metaphysical abysses; about these one has to seek advice from men whose name cannot be stated without earning a compassionate smile—e.g. Fichte.”

  Hermann Weyl (1885–1955) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Das Kontinuum. Kritische Untersuchungen uber die Grundlagen der Analysis (1918), as quoted/translated by Erhard Scholz, "Philosophy as a Cultural Resource and Medium of Reflection for Hermann Weyl" (2004)

• “In preieres and penaunce putten hem manye, Al for the love of Oure Lord lyveden ful streyte In hope to have heveneriche blisse”

  William Langland (1332–1386) said by 1386 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet.”

  Rosa Parks (1913–2005) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Quoted in "Standing Up for Freedom," Academy of Achievement.org (2005-10-31)

• “Some on commission, some for the love of learning, Some because they have nothing better to do Or because they hope these walls of books will deaden The drumming of the demon in their ears.”

  Louis MacNeice (1907–1963) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The British Museum Reading Room", l. 4 (July 1939)

• “Hope, too, is power.”

  Nawal El Saadawi (1931–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame, Who seek, who hope, who love, who live but thee; Thine eyes my pride, thy lips mine history: If thou praise not, all other praise is shame.”

  Philip Sidney (1554–1586) said by 1586 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “This much is certain: you can have anything in life except a wife to call you "her man." And till now all your life was based on that hope.”

  Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “In recent times Italy have been in a World Cup final every 12 years and I hope to still be there in 2018.”

  Gianluigi Buffon (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I expect that on the 1st of August, the SA will be once more ready for duty. If the enemies of the SA are hoping that the SA will not return from leave, we are ready to let them enjoy the hope for a short time. The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny.”

  Ernst Röhm (1887–1934) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: SA summer furlough decree, published in Völkischer Beobachter (10 June 1934)

• “Trump is the only hope to defeat the Kingmakers. Because everybody else will fall in line. The Kingmakers have so much money behind them.”

  Phyllis Schlafly (1924–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Hope is paltry food for living.”

  John McAfee (1945–2021) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Into the Heart of Truth (2001)

• “Human reason is the only saviour we have... We need more education, not less; more science, not less; more hope for the future, and more confidence in it.”

  A. J. P. Taylor (1906–1990) first seen 1953 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: 'My Religion', Daily Herald (10 January 1953), p. 5

• “You’re like a priest who awakens one day and realizes that his god has been replaced by a cardboard cut-out, and he’s no longer able to ignore his own disbelief. And, like the priest, you’ve sacrificed all hope of a normal life on the altar of something you no longer believe in.”

  Charles Stross (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I don’t get enough practice at killing people to not feel bad about it; I hope I never do, although that’s looking like a forlorn wish these days.”

  Charles Stross (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Hope of attaining true freedom by purely political means has become an insane delusion. (from "The Pasternak Affair").”

  Thomas Merton (1915–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I do hope you realize that every time you use disinterested to mean uninterested, an angel dies.”

  Roy Blount Jr. (born 1941) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Alphabet Juice (2008), p. 7.

• “I would hope that my books might help to counteract bleakness.”

  Alexander McCall Smith (born 1948) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Kate Kellaway, "'You have to make sure things don't go to your head'", The Observer, 6 March 2005.

• “I hope you never love anything as much as I love you. (p. 73)”

  Jonathan Safran Foer (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never think about anything as much as I think about you. (p. 224)”

  Jonathan Safran Foer (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I hope that all of you will follow me.”

  Adolf Eichmann (1906–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Mumbled just before being hanged, according to Rafi Eitan, an Israeli intelligence officer who was standing behind Eichmann during the execution, as quoted in Mitch Ginsburg, "Eichmann's Final Barb" in The Times of Isra…

• “Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.”

  John Banville (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The fortune of war has thrown me into the hands of Government, and I am utterly ignorant of what fate may attend me, but in the worst event I hope I shall bear it like a man, and that my death will not disgrace my life.”

  Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763–1798) first seen 1763 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter to Thomas Addis Emmet, William James MacNaven, Arthur O'Connor and John Sweetman (10 November 1798), quoted in T. W. Moody, R. B. McDowell and C. J. Woods (eds.), The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone, 1763–98, Vol…

• “Of all the colleagues I have lost, he is the one I am least sorry to see the last of. I hope that Lewisham will throw the intruder out. He only came here because he ran away from a communist.”

  Herbert Morrison (1888–1965) first seen 1945 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Daily Express, 5 July 1945.

• “Fair Elphin, cease your lament! Swearing profits no-one. It is not evil to hope Nor does any man see what supports him, Not an empty treasure is the prayer of Cynllo, Nor does God break his promise.”

  Taliesin (518–599) said by 599 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or a moaning dove.”

  Ralph Ellison (1914–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The hope that she might regain her happiness made her fearless.”

  Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “And they walk into these great big places, and there's excitement, and there's hope, and there's a sense of sin. 'Mother wouldn't want me to be here. What if Louise knew that I was here?' A lot of men, you know, would write home and talk about what was going on as if they hadn't seen it. I've been told what goes on in these gambling halls.”

  J. S. Holliday (1924–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It was a spring day, the sort that gives people hope: all soft winds and delicate smells of warm earth. Suicide weather.”

  Susanna Kaysen (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish-American_War The Spanish-American War has been a splendid little war, begun with the highest motives, carried on with magnificent intelligence and spirit, favored by that Fortune that loves the brave. It is now to be concluded, I hope, with that fine good nature, which is, after all, the distinguishing trait of the American character.”

  John Hay (1838–1905) first seen 1898 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: From a 1898 letter to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, quoted in Donald E. Schmidt's The Folly of War: American Foreign Policy, 1898-2005 (2005).

• “War will come again after this one. It will come again as long as it can be determined by people other than those who fight. The same causes will produce the same effects, and the living will have to give up all hope.”

  Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The eye is lost in all directions among the desolation where the multitude of men and women are hiding, as always and as everywhere. That is what is. Who will say, "That is what must be!" I have searched, I have indistinctly seen, I have doubted. Now, I hope.”

  Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I hope she saw the passion, and no need to tell Mark Anthony about it.”

  Sanjaya Malakar (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “With regard to reforms at Rugby, give me credit, I must beg of you, for a most sincere desire to make it a place of Christian education. At the same time, my object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.”

  Thomas Arnold (1795–1842) first seen 1828 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter to Rev. John Tucker accepting his appointment as headmaster of Rugby (2 March 1828), quoted in Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, Volume I (1845), p. 61

• “One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.”

  Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) first seen 1796 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter to George Washington (1796); published in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 20 Vols., Washington, D.C., (1903-04), 9:341

• “Whether the succeeding generation is to be more virtuous than their predecessors, I cannot say; but I am sure they will have more worldly wisdom, and enough, I hope, to know that honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”

  Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) first seen 1819 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter to Nathaniel Macon (12 January 1819)

• “I hope we shall... crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country”

  Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) first seen 1816 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: to George Logan, 1816

• “Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.”

  Edmund Wilson (1895–1972) first seen 1145 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: To the Finland Station : A Study in the Acting and Writing of History (1940), Part I, Ch. 5: Michelet Between Nationalism and Socialism, p. 36, [1972 Farrar Straus & Giroux edition, /1145]

• “it will never be outmoded as long as the systole and diastole of human life survives, and men fluctuate between progress and reaction, growth and decline, hope and illusion.”

  Robert Gordis (1908–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We'll be sending a print to the MPAA, we say nothing about it and hope they sleep through the movie.”

  Uwe Boll (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We joined long wagon trains moving south; we met hundreds of wagons going north; the roads east and west were crawling lines of families traveling under canvas, looking for work, for another foothold somewhere on the land.... The country was ruined, the whole world was ruined; nothing like this had ever happened before. There was no hope, but everyone felt the courage of despair.”

  Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968) first seen 1894 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Written in 1935, recalling her family’s migration from drought-stricken South Dakota to the Missouri Ozarks in 1894; the 650-mile trip had taken them six weeks.

• “The Communist hope of economic equality in the Soviet Union rests now on the death of all men and women who are individuals. A new generation, they tell me, had already been so shaped and schooled that a human mass is actually being created; millions of young men and women do, in veritable fact, have the psychology of the bee-swarm, the ant-hill.”

  Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “There are those who would say that it is unfortunate that his campaign for the presidency did not turn out like one of his movies--for in 2004, it appeared that the villains had won the day. As his spokesperson then, I know that he would have told us not to lose hope for, like in the movies, good will ultimately triumph over evil.”

  Francis Escudero (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “As history has shown, overcoming tyranny takes time and patience, blood and sacrifice. It also takes a leader, who is willing to overcome the odds and be the sole beacon of hope. Suu Kyi is that kind of leader.”

  Francis Escudero (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I view with utmost concern the imposition of martial law in Maguindanao province, especially after the reported discovery of arms caches and documents related to past elections. I hope that this is not the case of "Maguindanao today-the Philippines tomorrow.”

  Francis Escudero (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The impact of space activities is nothing less than the galvanizing of hope and imagination for human life continuum into a future of infinite possibility.”

  Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “A spaceship rhymes with all the dreams, nascent wonder, and hope of a humanity looking up in awe at an excruciatingly beautiful Cosmos, with”

  Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It made a real big difference with everyone not trying to sort of snap a picture every time I was walking around the streets. I hope it just continues for Harry as well when he is there.”

  William, Prince of Wales (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “At present [1941], not taking my serious illness into account, I still hope to make something for the 25th anniversary of the October Revolution. - El Lissitzky, June 1941, Moscow Notes.”

  El Lissitsky (1890–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It was in prison that we found the hope of salvation for the Communists. It was there that we developed a sense of responsibility toward them. It was in being tortured by them that we learned to love them.”

  Richard Wurmbrand (1909–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

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