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“I feel that the end of my days is drawing near; my senses are failing me; my delight and strength in creating songs are gone; he, who was once honored by half of Europe, is forgotten; others have come and are the objects of admiration; one must give place to another. Nothing remains for me but trust in God, and the hope of an unclouded existence in the Land of Peace.”
Antonio Salieri (1750–1825) first seen 1822 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Salieri in a conversation with Hüttenbrenner on June 8, 1822, quoted in Alexander Wheelock Thayer, Salieri: rival of Mozart (1989), p. 150
“Dear citizens. Now I plan to jump off a bridge over the Han River. I hope you give us the last chance. Please lend us 100 million won which will be used for paying back debt and seed money of our organization... I know this is shameful. I'm sorry. I'll repent for the last of my life.”
Sung Jae-gi (1967–2013) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Activist's 'suicide' causes huge stir" Koreatimes 2013.07.26
“Our deepest hope as humans lies in technology; but our deepest trust lies in nature. These forces are like tectonic plates grinding inexorably into each other in one, long, slow collision. This collision is not new, but more than anything else it is defining our era. Technology is steadily creating the dominant issues and upheavals of our time.”
W. Brian Arthur (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I live to be a hundred--and I hope I do--I won't have time to read all the books I want to read, or talk to the people I want to know. Not party talk. That's a waste of time. Real talk.”
Brian Keith (1921–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That [Lottery] ticket, of course, didn’t win. And neither would any of the tickets I buy after it, but they would give me hope.”
Elliot Rodger (1991–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Success: Pessimism and giving up are greatest weaknesses. Our failures are essential stepping stones to success. Motivate yourself and develop the will to win. Never quit halfway. The only way to excellent achievement is to try again and again with hope and confidence.”
Thích Nhật Từ (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am determined and focussed on overcoming this injury and hope to be back fitter and stronger than before.”
Aaron Ramsey (born 1990) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: TheGuardian Quotes about the double fracture of his right leg sustained on 27 February 2010 in a challenge with Stoke City's Ryan Shawcross, who was sent off for the offence (Published 5 March 2010)
“There is hope: in a fiercely independent Supreme court, a crusading free press and an absolute commitment to representative democracy. It's time to slip those last reins of rundown colonial institutions.”
Mark Tully (1935–2026) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Michael Holland "Slow progress" The Guardian (7 December 2003)
“I hope I will be able to paint as long as I live.”
Margrethe II of Denmark (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One shouldn't write one's own epitaph. I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism.”
Margrethe II of Denmark (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.”
Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Myrdal (1984), quoted in: Revue internationale de pédagogie expérimentale, Vol. 22-23. H. Dunantlaan 1. (1985), p. 367
“There is no hope, as far as I can see, of pushing the postulates of economic theory back to a set of irreducible axioms.”
Richard Stone (1913–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis. At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind.”
James Tobin (1918–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“America is the greatest, freest, and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.”
Dinesh D'Souza (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“in English: I do not consider myself a musician, rather a radar ready to pick up the symphonies coming from the sky. It's been like that since I was four years old and I hope it will continue forever. When I compose, any ingredient can be good, the problem lies in the proportions that must be harmonized. It's like the work of architects, you never invent anything.”
Vangelis (1943–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think they're an honest bunch. I wish them well. I hope they surprise and confound a few people. It’s good for the game in America if they do. If they can make a ripple or two, that pushes the game on again.”
“The U.S. have no choice, other than to gamble. Which could mean they'll be hit by another counter or two. Bradley. Chipped forward, and look at this! It's Julian Green! Would you believe it? The youngster, gives the U.S. hope! Extraordinary! Two, one! The teenager comes up trumps!”
Ian Darke (born 1950) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Belgium v. United States (1 July 2014)
“Okay, that thing is gone. I think, I hope—" [ROAR-ing noise] "NO, IT'S NOT! AHHHHH!”
Markiplier (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In other words, the inept and malicious propaganda against me will not work. Money has never won any elections. Cartel propaganda fueled by evil, lies and malice will not emerge victorious against righteousness, integrity and vision. I represent hope and a fully liberated and cleaned up Nairobi while the cartels are determined to protect and fortify the rotten, corrupt and exploitative status quo.”
Miguna Miguna (born 1962) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Facebook post in response to detractors, , 2016
“The second category of personal questions would be more relevant when I finally call it a day and find myself in a reminiscent or atavistic frame of mind. As it is, I am still on the move -- and intend to be so. It is not fair to ask me to anticipate the possible answers to such 'terminal' questions. I hope my reluctance to answer these questions will be understood in the right spirit.”
P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Well? I hope the people in the United States are sitting, enjoying this game. Because, they will never see a World Cup semi-final like this. For the rest of their lives. I am shell-shocked!”
Steve McManaman (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But now we come upon another objection, which I judge will be the last you can raise. You will say, I suspect, that this world of freedom, self-equipped for sin, is indeed a world which "lieth in wickedness," that in truth there is no real hope of good in it: it is a world of inherent and inexpugnable wrong, and not only damnable, but in fact already damned.”
George Holmes Howison (1834–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are continuing our endevours to normalize relations with China on the basis of mutual respect for sovereignty, territorial integrity, and non-interference in each other’s internal affairs. We hail the restoration of normal relations between Japan and China and we hope that it will contribute to peace and security in Asia.”
Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918–1999) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Kedar Nath Kumar Political Parties in India, Their Ideology and Organisation, Mittal Publications, 1 January 1990, p. 153
“… a pastime for helots, a diversion for uneducated, wretched, worn-out creatures who are consumed by their worries, … a spectacle which requires no concentration and presupposes no intelligence,… which kindles no light in the heart and awakens no hope other than the ridiculous one of someday becoming a ‘star’ in Los Angeles.”
Georges Duhamel (1884–1966) first seen 1930 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: describing cinema, Scènes de la vie future (1930), p. 58
“As well hope to start with a string of sausages and reconstruct the pig”
Burnett Streeter (1874–1937) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The four gospels: a study of origins, treating of the manuscript tradition, sources, authorship, & dates, Macmillan and Co., 1924
“You see the expansion of industrial power pushed forward by the energy, hope, and thrift of men, and you see the development arrested, diverted, crippled, and defeated by measures which are dictated by military considerations.”
William Graham Sumner (1840–1910) first seen 1899 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Conquest of the United States by Spain”, speech at Yale 1899 .
“I hope my fans remember my name is Gene Vincent and not Gene Autry.”
Gene Vincent (1935–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran: Rock'n'roll Revolutionaries (2004) by by John Collis, p. 181
“Every musician here has played these pieces many times, sometimes hundreds of times. Yesterday we looked at this music as if we had seen it for the first time. We never accept that the next note will played the same way it was played before. Thinking anew is our daily activity. I hope all the people of this region can take note of that.”
Daniel Barenboim (born 1942) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Daniel Barenboim brings 'solace and pleasure' to Gaza with Mozart concert", The Guardian (3 May 2011)
“We must live before we can attain to either intelligence or control at all. We must sleep if we are not to find ourselves, at death, helplessly strange to the new conditions. And we must die before we can hope to advance to a broader understanding.”
John William Dunne (1875–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hope your patriotic exertions, of which this is by no means the first, will be productive in time of the success they merit; but am afraid that the vices of government, which "infect to the north star," are inimical, at present, to every species of reformation.”
Joseph Ritson (1752–1803) said by 1803 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm amazed to be here still and doing all this. But then I look at Oscar Niemeyer in Rio, who was a hero of mine when I was a student at Manchester. Oscar's still busy at work at 102, so there's hope. In any case, I just wouldn't know how to stop.”
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our national story has its full share of grief and pain as well as triumph and expectation. But through it all, hope remains and dreams do not die.”
Alex Salmond (1954–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our churches are here to provide comfort and to offer hope as they always do in moments of extremity.”
Alex Salmond (1954–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When our society is tested - we depend on the strength of the institutions which sustain that society - our churches, trade unions, charities, our universities and colleges, our legal system. And, of course, our political institutions, which should be a source of hope, a source of purpose.”
Alex Salmond (1954–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Chilcot will not be a verdict, that much is clear. However, it could still supply the damning evidence for the jury to bring a conviction in. In a triumph of hope over experience my political sense tells me to expect fireworks.”
Alex Salmond (1954–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“German erudition of his time he held in little esteem. “They go to work like galley slaves,” was his charge. “They do not write on a theme because inspired; but the theme comes first, and with assiduous and laborious study they hope to evolve something brilliant out of it.”
Oscar Levy (1867–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The total effective demand for commodities in the market is limited to the number of units of money of account that dealers are prepared to offer, and the number they are prepared to offer over any period of time is limited according to the number they hope to receive.”
Ralph George Hawtrey (1879–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight. The Universe did not create Life in the hope that the failure of the majority would underscore the success of the few. Spirtiuality atleast, we live in a democracy, an equal opportunity society.”
B. K. S. Iyengar (1918–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Almost every important choice in our lives is really just an expression of hope.”
John Twelve Hawks (born 2000) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In a time when so many artists have learned to confabulate with extremes of horror and alienation, the most daring thing an artist can do is to fill a book, a gallery, or a theater with joy, hope, and beauty.”
Theodore Roszak (scholar) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: with Betty Roszak, "Deep Form in Art and Nature" Alexandria 4, Vol.4 The Order of Beauty and Nature (1997) ed. David Fideler
“I hope that youngsters and civil society organizations and every Indian will feel proud. It is a noble cause to work for the rights of children. It is a movement against child labour and everyone must join it.”
Kailash Satyarthi (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It [Nobel Peace Prize] is a great recognition and honour for millions of children in the world. I hope many more people will join the fight against child slavery. This isn't just about India. It's a global phenomenon. We'll work for this globally. I've been working in 147 countries and my responsibility is with all the world's children.”
Kailash Satyarthi (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We work with broken families and broken people who've lost hope and are helpless. If people oppose my work, launch personal attacks, we know that we are on the right path. One colleague was shot, another was beaten to death. I've injuries all over my body. We work against a social evil. If this evil isn't reacting it means we aren't a threat.”
Kailash Satyarthi (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From a distance, there is harmony And it echoes through the land It's the voice of hope, it's the voice of peace It's the voice of every man.”
Julie Gold (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From a distance we are instruments Marching in a common band Playing songs of hope, playing songs of peace They're the songs of every man.”
Julie Gold (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To be alive is to inhabit a nightmare without hope of awakening to a natural world, to have our bodies embedded neck-deep in a quagmire of dread, to live as shut-ins in a house of horrors from which nobody gets out alive.”
Thomas Ligotti (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have a strong hope and conviction that, with moderation and good sense, and a policy of firmness, patience and good temper, these difficulties may yet be satisfactorily, if not immediately settled.”
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1854–1925) first seen 1897 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Milner, to the people of Kimberley, upon his arrival in South Africa on May 5, 1897, John Evelyn Wrench, cited in Martin Meredith, Alfred Lord Milner (1958), p. 167
“History has placed a tremendous responsibility on the shoulders of this country's leadership, namely the responsibility of moving our country away from the current course of conflict and confrontation... The hope of millions of South Africans is fixed on us. The future of southern Africa depends on us. We dare not waver or fail.”
F. W. de Klerk (1936–2021) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to Parliament (February 1990)
“There are not wanting, even to-day, chemists who advocate "purely chemical" methods in chemistry, and cannot appreciate the value of physical evidence in conjunction with mathematical calculations. We can only hope that their number is decreasing exponentially with time.”
J. R. Partington (1886–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dear Alf, I'm your number one fan. I like you because you're an alien but you're funny, unlike my brother who's an alien but just a jerk. Anyway, I hope you're enjoying your time here on our planet and have found things to eat other than cats. I recommend chicken nuggets. Sincerely, Missy Cooper, age 10. P.S. My favorite color is pink. What's yours?”
Chuck Lorre (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source