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“I have found philanthropy deeply satisfying work. I encourage all people to engage in giving to others, be it through time or money. The point is to be involved. Helping is a joyful experience and enriches the giver as much as those who receive. By enabling people to do good work, I participate in a brighter future for the Jewish people and, I hope, all of humanity.”
Edgar Bronfman Sr. (1929–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's about kids in a horrible situation and there's this girl who overcomes it and gives hope to everyone and they come together to do something about it.”
Liam Hemsworth (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The international community invested much effort and hope in the Reformists, but they’re pre-screened, pre-approved loyal opposition. More and more of their supporters are realizing it’s futile to promote change from within because Iran’s paramilitary mafia still occupy the top of the pyramid. Khamenei controls every apparatus of state: legislature, politics, information and military.”
Reza Pahlavi (born 1960) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Cnaan Liphshiz. Obama ‘chickened out’ of confronting mullahs. The Jerusalem Post. July 6, 2012.
“Apart from the organized Church, the religious spirit is a factor of incalculable power in the making of history. In the idealistic spirits that lead and in the masses that follow, the religious spirit always intensifies thought, enlarges hope, unfetters daring, evokes the willingness to sacrifice, and gives coherence in the fight.”
Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let’s hope that no system of theory of systems will ever eliminate the other systems – that no approach will be promoted to a dogma, and no group of scientists will become the high priests. Shouldn’t we rather let a hundred flowers bloom...?”
Gerald Weinberg (1933–2018) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Weinberg (1976) cited in: Slawomir Sztaba (2010) "Economy and Sociology. The Likely Directions of Cooperation.". In: WFES. Vol 1, nr.1 2010. p. 218
“A useful role exists for the economist is making calculations of the prospective costs and/or benefits of alternative policies. This role is precisely the one Keynes had in mind, I assume, when he expressed the hope that we would become useful after the fashion of dentists.”
George Stigler (1911–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To him the heavens a fearful aspect wear, Strange are the accents murmur’d in his ear. He steals no balm from pity’s lenient breath Hope sheds no gleam, but through the vale of death: An alien, far from nature’s bosom cast, He broods on wrongs, the present and the past; And asks what vengeance shall the wretches wait, Who bade him mourn within the stranger’s gate.”
Elizabeth Benger (1775–1827) said by 1827 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hope to write someday and that’s even more terrifying than performing. You don’t just entertain the audience, you give them little bits of your soul.”
Chris Colfer (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think I just want to leave my mark in some way. I hope I leave the world a better place than it was when I came, and I think the best way I can do that is through acting and writing, and hopefully it will make a difference someday.” —Chris Colfer, How would you like to be remembered?”
Chris Colfer (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The threat lies in the realization that in our universe the security of stable, permanent rules are gone forever. We are living in a dangerous and uncertain world that inspires no blind confidence. Our hope arises from the knowledge that even small fluctuations may grow and change the overall structure. As a result, individual activity is not doomed to insignificance”
Ilya Prigogine (1917–2003) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 313; Cited in: K.C. Laszlo (2001) The Evolution of Business: Learning, Innovation, and Sustainability for the 21st century. p. 10.
“There's two empty seats right middle - this is supposed to be sold out, where are they? I hope they're dead in a fucking car crash!”
Frankie Boyle (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My day-mind can endure Upright, in hope, all it must undergo. But O, afraid, unsure, My night-mind waking lies too low, too low.”
Alice Meynell (1847–1922) said by 1922 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am finally ready for the world. I hope it’s ready for me.”
Tarık Günersel (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.”
Christian Nestell Bovee (1820–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Plot, the absolute line between two points which I've always despised. Not for literary reasons, but because it takes all hope away. Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.”
Grace Paley (1922–2007) first seen 1972 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Conversation with My Father" (1972)
“We believe this would be a huge mistake and we hope that this would never happen.”
Sergey Lavrov (born 1950) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lavrov warns any attack on Iran, whether by Israel or any other, (November 2011)
“I am honored to receive the Templeton Prize. The field of philosophy has transformed over the course of my career. If my work played a role in this transformation, I would be very pleased. I hope the news of the prize will encourage young philosophers, especially those who bring Christian and theistic perspectives to bear on their work, toward greater creativity, integrity and boldness.”
Alvin Plantinga (born 1932) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages. The verb tunatya contains in its idea of hope something of our words 'thought,' 'desire,' and 'cause,' which sometimes must be used to translate it.”
Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hope I may claim in the present work to have made it probable that the laws of arithmetic are analytic judgments and consequently a priori. Arithmetic thus becomes simply a development of logic, and every proposition of arithmetic a law of logic, albeit a derivative one. To apply arithmetic in the physical sciences is to bring logic to bear on observed facts; calculation becomes deduction.”
Gottlob Frege (1848–1925) first seen 1884 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gottlob Frege (1950 [1884]). The Foundations of Arithmetic. p. 99.
“That blot on the peace of the world, the Treaty of Versailles, is vanishing, and for that I am thankful... France has again had a severe lesson, and I hope it will take it this time. In any event the folly of pandering to it by standing rigidly to the letter of Versailles or Locarno...must now be plain and this logical and legalistic nation should be brought to face reality.”
Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diary entry in response to the remilitarisation of the Rhineland (8 March 1936) , quoted in Stephen A. Schuker, 'France and the Remilitarization of the Rhineland, 1936', French Historical Studies, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Spring…
“Abraham Lincoln once said, "All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my mother." I'm not sure I want to say it quite like that, but my mother, Sonya Carson, was the earliest, strongest, and most impacting force in my life. It would be impossible to tell about my accomplishments without starting with my mother's influence.”
Ben Carson (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So I'm going to say my prayers tonight before I go to sleep. I hope you'll do the same. I believe if we do that, we'll all have less to worry about tomorrow.”
Ben Carson (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The room is like a cave, and has books I love in it. The main door was closed up and a smaller opening was made under the stairs. (I went away while all this was happening.) The furniture is locked in, and part of me is locked in too, or I hope it is, although I often made a bid to escape. I have left instructions that I would like to be buried here when I die or a bit before, the cave bricked up.”
Colm Tóibín (born 1955) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Writers' rooms: Colm Tóibín, The Guardian (13 July 2007)
“Nothing like hope to doom you.”
Malcolm Azania (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Peace is a path of hope, a path on which one advances through dialogue, reconciliation and conversion.”
Pope Francis (1936–2025) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On New Year, Pope Wishes the Faithful a 2020 of Peace, Voice of America, (1 January 2020)
“Investing in education means helping children and young people to discover and appreciate the most important values and to have the courage to look to their future with hope.”
Pope Francis (1936–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What I will say is not a dogma of faith but something personal of mine. I like to think about the empty hell, I hope it is reality.”
Pope Francis (1936–2025) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Papa Francesco sdogana l'Inferno vuoto: "è una mia cosa personale non un dogma" (January 14, 2024)
“Our societies are too enslaved to market logic, and everything risks being subject to self-interest and the quest for profit. Volunteering is prophecy and a sign of hope, because it bears witness to the primacy of gratuitousness, solidarity, and service to those most in need.”
Pope Francis (1936–2025) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pope Francis: volunteerism a sign of hope, Aise (2025)
“‘My hypotheses are generated from experience with TM but are framed in terms of meditation in general in the hope that they will be tested on a variety of different systems’.”
Daniel Goleman (born 1946) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quoted from Malhotra, R. & Viswanathan V. (2022). Snakes in the Ganga : Breaking India 2.0.
“I was reading of chaos that contained order; of information as the primal, creative force; of systems that, by design, fell apart so they could renew themselves; and of invisible forces that structured space and held complex things together. These were compelling, evocative ideas, and they gave me hope, even if they did not reveal immediate solutions.”
Margaret Wheatley (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hope that government workers can be proactive. … Doling out punishment constantly would only cause them to have a mentality of 'the less one does, the fewer mistakes one makes.'”
Yeh Kuang-shih (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We hope this car will be less labor intensive, less material intensive, less everything intensive than anything we have done before.”
Roger Smith (executive) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: R.B. Smith cited in: Lloyd L. Byars (1987) Strategic management: planning and implementation : concepts and cases p. 150.
“[I call for] imagination and courage in the endless endeavor to make human life more meaningful and significant, more nearly expressive of the values we cherish... A national policy for the family will earn affirmation and as such should give re-direction to what we are now doing in our social life, and new hope and inspiration to individual men and women and new promise to youth.”
Lawrence K. Frank (1890–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in: Ruth H. Jewson, James Walters (1988) The National Council on Family Relations: a fifty year history. p. 15
“I place my hope not on government, not on political parties, but on faith in the power of the religion of Jesus Christ to conquer all prejudices, to break down all walls of separation, and to weld together men of all races in one great brotherhood.”
Francis J. Grimké (1850–1937) first seen 1899 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rev. Francis J. Grimké in 1899; As Quoted in Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. (2003), African American religious thought: An Anthology, page 398; and in Rael, Patrick (2008), African-American activism before the Civil War: The free…
“I have said on many occasions, in Parliament and elsewhere, that I am not convinced that this [the restoration of corporal punishment for young offenders] would have the effect for which its advocates hope.”
Rab Butler (1902–1982) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Association of Chief Officers of Police in Bournemouth (25 May 1960), quoted in The Times (26 May 1960), p. 18
“My hope is that by the right process of inquiry and discernment, once the text has been cleansed of its obvious literal sense by undefiled thoughts, the philosophy hidden in the words may be brought to light.”
Gregory of Nyssa (born 335) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The striking parallel between the economic models that are currently under discussion and some engineering systems suggests the hope that in some way the rapid progress in the development of the theory and practice of automatic control in the world of engineering may contribute to the solution of the economic problems.”
Arnold Tustin (1899–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All that can be done pedagogically is to show the student how some phenomena have been modeled, let him model some phenomena under supervision, and then hope he will be successful on his own—or know enough to secure assistance.”
A. Wayne Wymore (1927–2011) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 68 About the teaching of modeling: As cited in: J.C. Heckman (1973, p. 5)".
“If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep.”
Sherwood Smith (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You have watched the Titans walk the Earth … and you have kept stride. Perhaps you are more like them than you realize. You exist … to give hope.”
“All my life I have felt most strongly against social distinction of any kind. I have at all time tried to paint to the best of my ability and would only hope that any remembrance of me when I'm am gone will be base on my work.”
L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter of 1967 and 1970 to Prime Ministers Wilson and Heath declining knighthood.L. S. Lowry - A Biography by Shelley Rhode Lowry Press 1999 .
“The United Nations is the best hope to spare humanity from the barbarity of war, from the senseless death, destruction and dislocation it brings about.”
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas (born 1947) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rights expert urges the UN General Assembly to adopt a more decisive role in peace-making (For International Day of Peace, Saturday 21 September 2013) .
“The UN Charter, adopted on 24 October 1945, has not lost its relevance in the 21st century. In fact, we need the United Nations more than ever, because the Charter constitutes humanity’s only rules-based order, and its best hope to build a peaceful modus vivendi that will facilitate development and prosperity for everyone on the planet.”
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Instead of strengthening the United Nations Charter as the best hope of survival for humanity, and the only valid “rules based international order”, the collective West has systematically undermined the United Nations system of multilateral negotiation, and is playing really hard ball by a financially blackmailing the Organization and its specialized agencies.”
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No," his father replied, "you ran for you. I just hope you're running toward something, not away from something.”
Nicholas Sparks (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over. Those two elements always go together. … The best we can hope for in life is that it doesn't happen for a long, long time.”
Nicholas Sparks (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My plea to you is this: despite your sadness, do not forget how happy you have made me; do not forget that I loved a man who loved me in return, and this was the greatest gift I could ever hope to receive.”
Nicholas Sparks (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Faith seems to me wholly lost, and hope dead; for it seems to me that I have and hold in the certainty that which I believed and hoped at other times. I no longer see union, for I know nothing more and can see nothing more than him alone without me. I do not know where the I is, nor do I seek it, nor do I wish to know or be cognizant of it.”
Catherine of Genoa (1447–1510) said by 1510 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Human cognition (re)creates the gods who sustain hope beyond sufficient reason and commitment beyond self interest. Humans ideally represent themselves to one another in gods they trust. Through their gods, people see what is good in others and what is evil.”
Scott Atran (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Vermouth always makes me brilliant unless it makes me idiotic, but we'll hope for the best.”
E. F. Benson (1867–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source