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“Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.”
Benjamin Banneker (1731–1806) said by 1806 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Friends' Intelligencer Vol. XI (1854), p. 821
“Recorded history starts with a patriarchal revolution. Let it continue with the matriarchal counterrevolution that is the only hope for the survival of the human race.”
Elizabeth Gould Davis (1910–1974) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The First Sex (N.Y.: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1971 (Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 79-150582)), p. 18 (Introduction)
“We like to help them with their problems, and we hope we do it right; It keeps you young to live with kiddos because with them the world is always fresh and new and bright;”
Henry Schriver (1914–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's a simple thing to break a string, but you cannot hope to break a rope.”
Henry Schriver (1914–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mrs. Phillis: Your favour of the 26th of October did not reach my hands 'till the middle of December. Time enough, you will say, to have given an answer ere this. Granted. But a variety of important occurrences, continually interposing to distract the mind and withdraw the attention, I hope will apologize for the delay, and plead my excuse for the seeming, but not real neglect.”
George Washington (1732–1799) said by 1799 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain (what I consider the most enviable of all titles) the character of an honest man, as well as prove (what I desire to be considered in reality) that I am, with great sincerity & esteem, Dear Sir Your friend and Most obedient Hble Ser⟨vt⟩”
George Washington (1732–1799) first seen 1788 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Alexander Hamilton (28 August 1788)
“As mankind become more liberal they will be more apt to allow, that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the Community are equally entitled to the protection of civil Government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations in examples of justice and liberality.”
George Washington (1732–1799) first seen 1790 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Roman Catholics (15 March 1790)
“Now that he’s president-elect, you just hope that he can make the world a better place. He won fair and square. We have to give him a chance. There’s no need talking about recounts and this and that.”
Shaquille O'Neal (born 1972) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About Donald Trump after the , as quoted in Shaq Didn’t Call Trump the 'Best President (September 17, 2018) by Catherine Monk,
“We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) said by 1865 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about their slaves? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) said by 1865 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) said by 1865 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) said by 1865 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed in The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1866) by Josiah G. Holland, p. 23; also in The Real Life of Abraham Lincoln (1867) by George Alfred Townsend, p. 6; according to Townsend, Lincoln made this remark to his law p…
“Not only had they behaved dutifully and without apparent concern for their own safety, but they also offered the hope that not all of the younger male generation were venial, lazy, proud, irreligious, inconsiderate, self-indulgent, weak-willed, and timorous.”
Steve Turner (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the woodland path is broken By warm tints along the way, And the low and sunny slope Is alive with sudden hope When there comes the silent token Of an April day,— Blue hepatica!”
Dora Read Goodale (1866–1953) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hepatica, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 365.
“I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.”
Catherine, Princess of Wales (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With guilt's defilement stained without, within, How can I hope Thy cleansing grace to win? —Because Thou saidst, "I have forgiven thy sin.”
Margaret Junkin Preston (1820–1897) first seen 1886 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Questionings", Stanza 3, in For Love's Sake: Poems of Faith and Comfort (New York: Anson D. F. Randolph and Company, 1886), p. 38
“After realising the depth of tragedy, we can and need to be joyful in hope.”
Kuruvilla Pandikattu (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The secret of joy is: To know the world and its evil powers ... and still preserve the hope.”
Kuruvilla Pandikattu (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love is the source of our hope/ Love is the basis of our vision/ Love is the goal of our progress/ Love is our world.”
Kuruvilla Pandikattu (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pandikattu, K. (2024). Hope in/for Humanity: Becoming the Best Generation by Addressing Global Challenges Through Ethical Consciousness. JRD Tata Foundation for Business Ethics. Jamshedpur.”
Kuruvilla Pandikattu (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The hope of a positive expected gain lies in detecting a wheel with sufficient bias.”
Richard Arnold Epstein (1927–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“First there were the Daleks...And then there was a man who fought them. And then, in time — he died. There are a few, of course, who believe that this man somehow survived, and that one day he will return. For both our sakes, dearest Hannah, we must hope these stories are true.”
Steven Moffat (born 1961) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines about the Doctor, written for Darla, in Asylum of the Daleks (1 September 2012)
“Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!”
Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780–1857) said by 1857 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Les Gaulois et François, C. L. Bett's translation; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 842.
“A large portion of this country... want to see somebody who can beat Trump. I get that. And there is, you know, a feeling, I think, among certain people that Joe Biden can out-white-man Donald Trump.... I get that beating Donald Trump is extremely, externally important. I get that. But I just hope that that’s the floor and not the ceiling.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Christian hope asks us to regard every stage in the growth of a person and every phase in the development of the Church as merely provisional. It has to be transcended. We are still on our way to the final Kingdom.”
Kurien Kunnumpuram (1931–2018) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kunnumpuram, K. (2007) The Indian Church of the Future. Mumbai: St Pauls
“This is not what I thought physics was about when I started out: I learned that the idea is to explain nature in terms of clearly understood mathematical laws; but perhaps comparisons are the best we can hope for.”
Hans Christian von Baeyer (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When healers yearn to kill then hope begins to die ... Evil cannot be overcome by evil.”
David Gemmell (1948–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One day you'll find a love, and then we can talk on equal terms. I do not mean that to sound patronizing. You are bright and intelligent. You have courage and wit. But sometimes, it is like trying to describe colors to a blind man. Love, as I hope you will find, has great power. Even death cannot destroy it. And I still love her.”
David Gemmell (1948–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hope as rich and green as the trees of an oasis.”
Dawud Wharnsby (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My intention is to use music as a tool for social change. It is always a prayer of mine that the work I produce will help, in some small way, to better the world or provide others with hope in themselves or trust in The Creator’s mercy to us all.”
Dawud Wharnsby (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If he could read a line, just understand one sign. Close his mouth and hear the peace of hope and fear, if he could read a line. If he could keep in time.”
Dawud Wharnsby (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Did you even know, until now, that human thought was capable of this degree of corruption? Yet Hegel grew out of Kant, Fichte, and Schelling, as naturally as Green, Bradley, and all the other later idealists, grew out of him. I mention these historical commonplaces, in case anyone should entertain the groundless hope of writing Hegel off as an isolated freak.”
David Stove (1927–1994) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Plato Cult and Other Philosophical Follies, 1991. Page 204.
“One day you will come to Montauk and see your dad playing the piano And see your other dad wearing glasses Hope that you will want to stay for a while Don’t worry I know you’ll have to go”
Rufus Wainwright (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is the nature of men to act negatively but to dream and hope positively.”
Edmund Cooper (1926–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And yet to be without hope is almost to be without sanity.”
Edmund Cooper (1926–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe our only hope of immortality lies in our actions, in what we do to and for others, and in our children.”
Edmund Cooper (1926–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I've tried to bring anything to federal politics, it's the idea that hope and optimism should be at their heart; we can look after each other better than we do today.”
Jack Layton (1950–2011) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jack Layton's statement." July 25, 2011.
“Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death. That is why the spectacle of tragedy has always filled men, not with despair, but with a sense of hope and exaltation. (pp. 4-5)”
Whittaker Chambers (1901–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Die goldene Medina. The accent was not on the golden (except in the sense of some mysterious Light), but on the Medina - that is, the city of hope, the city of deliverance. (p. 281)”
Whittaker Chambers (1901–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, "You gave hope to other balding men." My new epitaph: "Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly.”
“The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life.”
Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872) said by 1872 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Thomas Jones, The Duties of Man and Other Essays (1915), page 61
“Hope nothing from foreign governments. They will never be really willing to aid you until you have shown that you are strong enough to conquer without them.”
Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872) said by 1872 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Life and Writings, Young Italy; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 333
“We can only hope.” “That’s like the frog said when he seen the stork.”
Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that the resulting partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process data in a way not approached by the information-handling machines we know today.”
J. C. R. Licklider (1915–1990) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Man-Computer Symbiosis", IRE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics (March 1960).
“I hope this begins the end of this project. It is a bad project. It isn’t just undemocratic, it is antidemocratic. It puts in that front row, it gives people power without unaccountability. People who cannot be held to account by the electorate and that is an unacceptable structure.”
Nigel Farage (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We cannot steer our drifting raft, nor stem the resistless current; but we have it in our power to behave decently, to share the meagre stock of victuals fairly as long as they last, to take the good and evil as it comes, and even to hope, if we choose to do so, for a fair haven.”
Frederick York Powell (1850–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in The Pilgrims' Way: A Little Scrip of Good Counsel for Travellers by Arthur Quiller-Couch (1907), p. 174
“False hope is the bread - and - butter of my existence, the only thing that keeps me going.”
“You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for. Live well, my son.”
David Gerrold (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We don't know what the event that has allowed for this massive oil to be released. And until we know that, I hope we don't see a knee-jerk reaction across this country that says we're going to shut down drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, because the cost to this country will be staggering.”
Rick Perry (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“His worst crime was that he gave no hope to the young.”
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (1911–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source