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“But now, in March 2018, Putin was declaring that the US effort had failed. He unveiled the existence of five new nuclear weapons, all of which could circumvent US missile-defense systems. He concluded defiantly, "I hope everything that has been said today will sober any potential aggressor," adding, "No one listened to us. Listen to us now.”
Oliver Stone (born 1946) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2 Minutes and Counting, Crises that seemed contained not long ago have now spiraled out of control—and the prospects for resolving them peacefully look depressingly bleak, the Nation, Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick, (3 …
“I hope our young men will not grow into such dodgers as these old men are. I believe everything that a young man says to me (p. 250).”
Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893) said by 1893 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And, O! there lives within my heart A hope long nursed by me, (And should its cheering ray depart How dark my soul would be)That as in Adam all have died In Christ shall all men live And ever round his throne abide Eternal praise to give;That even the wicked shall at last Be fitted for the skies And when their dreadful doom is past To life and light arise.”
Anne Brontë (1820–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where hope rises fear must lurk behind.”
Anne Brontë (1820–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life and hope must cease together.”
Anne Brontë (1820–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If there are angels they must, I hope, find this convincing, this merriment dangling from terror, not even crying Save me Save me since all of this takes place in silence.”
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hope he doesn't like travelling, Failing that we will stop him entering the country. Real buy these big players like Figo, Zidane and Ronaldo but I think the best player in the world is Raúl.”
Raúl González (born 1977) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alex Ferguson 2003,
“Every war already carries within it the war that will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything is smashed. That is why I am so wholeheartedly for a radical end to this madness and why my only hope is in world socialism.”
Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) first seen 1944 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diary entry (21 February 1944).
“His [a terrorist's] primary objective is not battle. It is to bring down upon the community in general a reprisal for his wrongs, in the hope that the fury and resentment roused by punishment meted out to the innocent will gradually swell the ranks of those from whom he will draw further recruits.”
Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bitter Lemons (1957)
“Firmly impressed in his own mind, that it was utterly vain for a soul to hope for salvation unless it believed in Jesus, the Virgin, the saints and holy martyrs; he brought heart and soul to his task; and the more he saw of Marie, the more painfully did he deplore her blind infatuation, and the more ardently desire, to save her from the eternal perdition which, as a Jewess, must await her.”
Grace Aguilar (1816–1847) said by 1847 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The search for the "white hope" not having been successful, prejudices were being piled up against me, and certain unfair persons, piqued because I was champion, decided if they could not get me one way they would another.”
Jack Johnson (boxer) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Introduction to "Knockout" at Unforgivable Blackness at PBS (2005)
“I was born Jewish and so I remain, even if that’s unacceptable for many. For me, the vocation of Israel is bringing light to the goyim. That’s my hope and I believe that Christianity is the means for achieving it.”
Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger (1926–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Art is the highest form of hope.”
Gerhard Richter (born 1932) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in text for catalogue of documenta 7, Kassel, 1982; as cited on collected quotes on the website of Gerhard Richter: 'on Art'
“I can bear this - that I am not the young wild guy [as he was in the 1970's]. I hope that the lust to work doesn't leave me. That would be sad. I am glad to get honors and high prices. But artists are valued today in terms of money, auctions. I wish society would need art more, but it doesn't. So I feel very lonely in this culture.”
Gerhard Richter (born 1932) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I even went all the way to Greenland, because C. D. Friedrich painted that beautiful picture of The Wreck of the 'Hope'. I took hundreds of photos up there and barely one picture [Richter's quote refers to his artwork 'Iceberg in Fog', 1982] came out of it.”
Gerhard Richter (born 1932) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Burke] emphasized that the new forms of politics, which hope to organize society around the rational pursuit of liberty, equality, fraternity, or their modernist equivalents, are actually forms of militant irrationality.”
Roger Scruton (1944–2020) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why I became a conservative", The New Criterion (February 2003)
“A free society is a community of free beings, bound by the laws of sympathy and by the obligations of family love. It is not a society of people released from all moral constraint–for that is precisely the opposite of a society. Without moral constraint there can be no cooperation, no family commitment, no long-term prospects, no hope of economic, let alone social, order.”
Roger Scruton (1944–2020) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Limits of Liberty", The American Spectator (December 2008)
“O harmony! thou tenderest nurse of pain, If that thy note's sweet magic e'er can heal Griefs which the patient spirit oft may feel, Oh! let me listen to thy songs again; Till memory her fairest tints shall bring; Hope wake with brighter eye, and listening seem With smiles to think on some delightful dream.”
William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850) said by 1850 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Music", in Poetical Works, vol. 1 (1855)
“Socialism, I want to propose, is the hope for human freedom and justice under the unprecedented conditions of life that humanity will face in the twenty-first century.”
Michael Harrington (1928–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.”
Eldridge Cleaver (1935–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Malcolm X had a special meaning for black convicts. A former prisoner himself, he had risen from the lowest depths to great heights. For this reason he was a symbol of hope, a model for thousands of black convicts who found themselves trapped in the vicious PPP cycle: prison-parole-prison.”
Eldridge Cleaver (1935–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We may speak loosely of a ‘sense of time,’ but there is no such sensory organ. Time is something we experience and construct. Time is experienced--is felt--when we wait, expect, or hope.”
Yi-Fu Tuan (1930–2022) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Humanist Geography: An Individual's Search for Meaning, p. 100 (2012).
“It is imperative that there is intervention into our dire situation and treatment ... We hope that you will help us. We have been in prison for a long time and we have been cut from our families. No contacts, no phones, no letters. Even the parcels sent to us by our families are not given to us. We need a fair treatment, a fair investigation and finally a fair trial. Please help us”
Tariq Aziz (1936–2015) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: British newspaper, The Observer, published letters in Arabic and English addressing to "world public opinion", pleading for international help to end "his dire situation", The Guardian (May 28, 2005), "The extraordinary…
“What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other's despair into hope?-- You yourself must change it.-- what would it feel like to know your country was changing?-- You yourself must change it.-- Though your life felt arduous new and unmapped and strange what would it mean to stand on the first page of the end of despair?”
Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: fragment from "Dreams Before Waking" (1983)
“Our coming-to-be is as mysterious as our ceasing-to-be at death. Can we therefore not derive hope because our ignorance about our origin matches our ignorance about our destiny? Cannot life be lived as a challenging and wonderful adventure that has meaning yet to be discovered? (95)”
John Carew Eccles (1903–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The old view was that delicacy of language was part of the nature, the sacred nature, of eros and that to speak about it in any other way would be to misunderstand it. What has disappeared is the risk and the hope of human connectedness embedded in eros. Ours is a language that reduces the longing for an other to the need for individual, private satisfaction and safety.”
Allan Bloom (1930–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?”
Letty Cottin Pogrebin (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Take hold of the handles of government carefully and grip them tightly. Destroy all hope, smash all intention of wresting them from you; allow no man to covet them.”
Han Fei (280–233 BC) said by 233 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Way of the Ruler", in Han Feizi: Basic Writings (2003)
“I hope that when he smiles at me He does not guess my joy and pain, For if he did, he is too kind To ever look my way again.”
Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Evil does not question itself. Only Hope questions itself.”
Craig Ferguson (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let us hope that the war in which Australia, in common with the rest of the Empire, is engaged will elevate the conscience of our nation to new and nobler purposes.”
John Curtin (1885–1945) first seen 1940 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Election speech in Perth (28 August 1940)
“People used to try to hijack quantum mechanics and its inherent mystery to cast a cloud around determinism, in the hope that free will could survive modern physics. But that never worked very well. Since when does random chance equal free will? The only salvation for volition is a soul and faith and you’re not allowed to ask me about that.”
Janna Levin (born 1967) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How the Universe Got its Spots (2002)
“(Sylvia) What do you hope never to hear your pilot say? 1) ”I had the worst fight of my life with my wife this morning.” 2) “Let’s see how fast this baby will go.” 3) “Whoops.”
Nicole Hollander (1939–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's always something that's smoldering somewhere I know it don't make a difference to you But oh! It sure made a difference to me You'll see me off in the distance, I hope At the other end At the other end of the telescope.”
Elvis Costello (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Aimee Mann
“Living on silence, Living by the book. You get it to a science Of living on one good look. So put out all the fires And blow away the smoke. I'm getting pretty tired Of living on hope.”
Aimee Mann (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The sex you're trading up for What you hope is love Is just another thing that He'll be careless of. But though there are caveats galore, You've only got to love him more — And you do; You really do. Even when it's all too clear.”
Aimee Mann (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some of these Salisbury prisoners used to say plainly that they were better off where they were than outside. They would argue they could never hope to find work, they could be harassed by the Police for passes, tax receipts and many other things. A society that drives some of its citizens to think that way is rotten and needs burying.”
Kenneth Kaunda (1924–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think that the best hope for peace and prosperity in the world is greater cooperation among nations, which in turn will be produced if both our governments and the people of our countries travel more and get to know each other better.”
David Rockefeller (1915–2017) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In an interview with Benjamin Fulford (13 November 2007)
“You know, before when (the police went) to work, they used to be like, 'I'm gonna kick somebody's ass today and so I hope I can catch somebody in a bad situation or breaking the law, because I'm gonna beat someone's ass in a big way, I think that attitude has changed.”
Rodney King (1965–2012) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: King's point of view on how things have changed since the incident Five years later, wounds from L.A. riots still sting (April 29, 1997).
“Thank you, if you appreciate the tuning so much, I hope you will enjoy the playing more.”
Ravi Shankar (1920–2012) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To the audience at The Concert for Bangladesh (1971)
“Thank you. If you appreciate the tuning so much, I hope you'll enjoy the playing more.”
Ravi Shankar (1920–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In his leisure Clayton read, often aloud to his wife, from the store of books he had brought for their new home. Among these were many for little children — picture books, primers, readers — for they had known that their little child would be old enough for such before they might hope to return to England.”
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For all three of us, the Caracalla concert was a major event in our lives. I hope I am not immodest to think it was also unforgettable for most of the people who were present.”
Luciano Pavarotti (1935–2007) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the 1990 "Three Tenors" concert in Rome, Italy, with Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras
“I hope that no one is going to offer some kind of trade of [Serbia's] future status in the European Union for (recognising) Kosovo's independence. That would be a disaster, that would be an indecent proposal and … this is not the European spirit and way of thinking.”
Boris Tadić (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You’re out of the woods You’re out of the dark You’re out of the night Step into the sun, step into the light, Keep straight ahead For the most glorious place On the Face of the Earth Or the sky. Hold onto your breath Hold onto your heart Hold onto your hope, March up to the gate And bid it open.”
Yip Harburg (1896–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No matter how much I probe and prod, I cannot quite believe in God; But oh, I hope to God that He Unswervingly believes in me.”
Yip Harburg (1896–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hope I've done nothing so monosyllabic as to cheat, A spade is never so merely a spade as the word Spade would imply.”
Christopher Fry (1907–2005) first seen 1950 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Venus Observed (1950), act 2, sc. 1
“They want to do all of their investigations. I don’t know. All of the thinking that goes into it. But we did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term. I hope they’re not looking at this politically. I do think we ought it to the American people to call it what it is.”
Dana Perino (born 1972) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fox News’ Hannity, November 24, 2009
“It may be too late for some, but I hope you understand now why I'm a GPL girl.”
Pamela Jones first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Enderle on TomTom - Here We Go Again - Updated 2Xs, retrieved 1 September 2010.
“Enough of dreams! No longer mock The burdened hearts of men! Not on the cloud, but on the rock Build thou thy faith again;O range no more the realms of air, Stoop to the glen-bound streams; Thy hope was all too like despair: Enough, enough of dreams.”
Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Secret Inn : 'The Kingdom is Within You'" in Master Mind Magazine, Vol. VII, No. 3 (December 1914), p. 99