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“I've told myself over and over during this (Republic of China 2020 legislative) election that: "You can't pretend to be someone else." I hope that voters can see my regular self, and that the Lai Pin-yu during election campaigning is the same as the regular Lai Pin-yu.”
Lai Pin-yu (born 1992) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lai Pin-yu (2020) cited in "From the Sunflower Movement to the DPP: An Interview with Lai Pin-yu" on New Bloom, 11 January 2020.
“What Heller finally offers us super-sensitive Westerners is a contemporary world in which we may ignore what threatens us, ... a world in which the summons to partisanship has been muffled if not ridiculed by a nihilism which has recently discovered gaiety, a despair which has learned to frolic in the ruins of a certain hope.”
Carl Oglesby (1935–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hope that one day we will be seen for the people we are, not for our race, gender, age or nationality.”
Roberta Flack (1937–2025) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On being told that her style was “too white” in “Roberta Flack: 'My music is my expression of what I feel in a moment'” in The Guardian (2020 Jan 21)
“I hope this (COVID-19) outbreak or this event may be over in something like April (2020).”
Zhong Nanshan (born 1936) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Zhong Nanshan (2020) cited in "New coronavirus cases lowest since Jan but experts disagree over peak" on Malaysia Kini, 12 February 2020.
“Our (Government of Hong Kong) primary duty is to care for (COVID-19) patients. Everyone can hold a different political view and different thoughts, as well as different views on the (Hong Kong) government's way of combating the pandemic. But I sincerely hope, amid choppy waters and at a critical moment, we can all put aside our conflicts ... and do our share for patients who need help.”
Anthony Wu (born 1954) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anthony Wu (2020) cited in "Hong Kong hospital strike kicks off as top doctor backs mainland China border closure calls amid coronavirus fears" on South China Morning Post, 3 February 2020.
“We may have more information about the risk of infection and the risk of severity of getting the (COVID-19) virus, so we can prepare. So we can have some precautions for infection control ... but I hope we can conduct the Tokyo Olympics as scheduled.”
Koji Wada (1974–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Koji Wada (2020) cited in "Japan hopefully has time to build virus defences before Olympics - professor" on The Star Online, 30 January 2020.
“I perceive... a dearth of voices speaking out against the modern anti-vaccination movement. Their false claims and public statements more often than not go unchallenged. I hope that this book might serve as a clarion call for other scientists and physicians to speak out on behalf of science.”
Peter Hotez (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As some are drawn to bars and others to churches, I’m drawn to bookstores and libraries. They’re sanctuaries. They’re sanctuary. Hope germinates in me that osmosis will take place and whatever goodness is in those books that got them a place on those shelves will leak into me and I’ll produce something that could someday go there.”
Tochi Onyebuchi (born 1987) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On where he finds inspiration in “THE PEN TEN: AN INTERVIEW WITH TOCHI ONYEBUCHI” in Pen America (2020 Jan 16)
“When I escaped from China and came to Hong Kong, the contrast was that China was like hell and Hong Kong, like heaven. Though I was very poor, I smelled the air of freedom and was full of hope for the future. That’s the way I thought heaven is.”
Jimmy Lai (born 1947) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: November 01, 2014 ‘Never Discouraged’: Pro-Democracy Newspaperman Joins Hong Kong Student Protesters
“I don't want to leave Hong Kong, the only thing we can do is persist, not to lose spirit or hope. And to think that what is right will eventually prevail.”
Jimmy Lai (born 1947) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: June 16, 2020, interviewed by AFP
“I hope one day not only Hong Kong people, but also people in mainland China, can enjoy freedom and democracy.”
Joshua Wong (born 1996) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: September 11, 2019 Hong Kong protesters pause to mark Sept. 11
“When you write your first book, you get to write it in a bit of a bubble. You don’t know if it will be published, as much as you hope and wish for it, you don’t really know that. It’s kind of a safer place to write. And then when you write the second book, you’re aware of readership, you’re aware of views, of an audience out there, of expectations, and it’s more work to shut that down.”
Ayelet Tsabari (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With 10 per cent of Nigeria's total land mass, 80 per cent of which is arable, Niger state symbolises the hope and greatness of Nigeria and has potential to feed the continent.”
Yemi Osinbajo (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Indians have always been justly proud of their age-old civilization and believing that this civilization was as ancient as any in Asia, they have long been hoping that archaeology would discover definite monumental evidence to justify their belief. This hope has now been fulfilled.”
John Marshall (archaeologist) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Marshall, John, quoted in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India.
“Since 1997, I think the human rights situation in Hong Kong has been regressing slowly. It could be that in China, the situation has been improving slowly, and when both sides eventually meet, they can move forward together. My hope is that the regression in Hong Kong will be a little slower, and the improvement in China a little faster, so that both sides meet at a higher point.”
Szeto Wah (1931–2011) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Before Handover of Hong Kong (1997), Quote of the Day: Szeto Wah on democracy in Hong Kong and China
“My trust towards China was both built up and broken down by Deng Xiaoping. There was hope due to his economic reforms, but the 4 June massacre killed all that.”
Szeto Wah (1931–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is the front line against terrible organisms. Like terrorism, you can’t fight it just within our borders. You’ve got to fight epidemic diseases where they emerge. [...] Either we help or hope we get lucky it isn’t an epidemic that travelers will catch or spread to our country.”
Tom Frieden (born 1960) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About the CDC downsizing its epidemic prevention. Quoted in CDC to cut by 80 percent efforts to prevent global disease outbreak (February 1, 2018) by Lena H. Sun,
“I choose to change things from within. That is probably more difficult, it is longer and more complicated but it is a more concrete solution. To work from within to change monetary, financial, agricultural, commercial, industrial policies. We are growing, and we are allying with other European countries to change the E.U. from within. If we leave, it would be the end of hope.”
Matteo Salvini (born 1973) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'We Want to Change Things from Within.' Italy's Matteo Salvini on His Goal to Reshape Europe", Time (13 September 2018).
“I’ve made my choice, Sam,” she had written. “I had to choose between what I wanted and what I could get. There are times when the ideal is just too unattainable and when the second best becomes, in the long run, the best. Maybe this also has a universal application. I hope so.”
Richard Wilson (1920–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But for a long time to come the prime movers in these operations must continue to be European. And we hope that a great Christian, and if we may use the term, ecclesiastical army will be raised, the rank and file consisting of natives, while the captains and generals are highly qualified Europeans.”
Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet (1826–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Oriental experience; a selection of essays and addresses delivered in various occasions" in Shourie, Arun (1994). Missionaries in India: Continuities, changes, dilemmas. New Delhi : Rupa & Co, 1994
“Thus India is like a mighty bastion which is being battered by heavy artillery. We have given blow after blow, and thud after thud, and the effect is not at first very remarkable; but at last with a crash the mighty structure will come toppling down, and it is our hope that some day the heathen religions of India will in like manner succumb.”
Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet (1826–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quoted in 'The Invasion That Never Was' by Michel Danino (1996) and
“The Indians will, I hope, soon stand in the same position towards us in which we once stood towards the Romans.”
Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet (1807–1886) first seen 1838 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On The Education Of The People Of India" 1838 Chapter 7, The Political Tendency of the different System of Education in use in India. in Shourie, Arun (1994). Missionaries in India: Continuities, changes, dilemmas. New …
“Our goal is actually to have about 75% utilization if we had one hundred CPU we would hope that our program will go 75% faster without tweaking it.”
Joe Armstrong (programmer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let us hope the bad times are ended for good," [said Mr. Tan.] "Good business for one is good business for all," said Girija. "Very true." Now, Mr. Tan decided, they were coming to the point. Reference to mutual advantage was the accepted preliminary to a squeeze.”
Eric Ambler (1909–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A world with no place for God is dark, empty without hope.”
Massimo Introvigne (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I fear that there will be blood. I hope and pray that there won’t be, and I will be looking for any way to avoid it.”
Rod Dreher (born 1967) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mao More Than Ever" (25 June 2020), The American Conservative
“The cruelty, the injustice, the implacability, and at times the sheer stupidity of the imperial Russian government and social order in no way justifies all that followed—but it does explain why the revolutionary Russian generation was so eager to place its hope in communism.”
Rod Dreher (born 1967) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents (2020)
“The Cold War could have produced a hot war that might have ended human life on the planet. But because the fear of such a war turned out to be greater than all of the differences that separated the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies, there was now reason for hope that it would never take place.”
John Lewis Gaddis (born 1941) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Cold War: A New History (2005)
“Trumpism is...a celebrity-driven , forged by its leader’s unique reality-television appeal. This has made it relatively easy for the Republican Party’s leaders to hope that his campaign is sui generis, that when he loses in November (as most of them still expect) there won’t be a coherent Trumpism after Trump.”
Ross Douthat (born 1979) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Cure for Trumpism", The New York Times (July 17, 2016)
“Two things make the future real, the artist's imagination and the worker's hope. Fascism destroys both. Therefore the artist and the worker must unite to destroy Fascism. The Fascist artist is a traitor, the neutral is already dead. Art and anti-Fascism are synonymous.”
John Langdon-Davies (1897–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would hope that by the time I'm gone, things like this will not be as prevalent. But if they are, perhaps this film will encourage others to do the same and do a better job that I've been able to do.”
Daryl Davis (born 1958) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Accidental Courtesy (2016) (at 1h34m53s)
“Hope and fear are like the two wings of a bird, when it is flying straight to its destination; of one wing fails its flights fails and if both fails, it dies.”
Al-Qushayri (986–1072) said by 1072 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hope is the vision of God in His perfect Beauty.”
Al-Qushayri (986–1072) said by 1072 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our 87-year-old neighbor has no power, so we’re storing his food on a freezer hooked to a generator. Our family friend is dying of pancreatic cancer and had to be transferred from home hospice, because he has no power. Hope your shareholders feel good about their dividends.”
Katherine Maher (born 1983) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter, (9 Aug 2020)
“What in all the world has courage to do with hope?”
Julius Bahnsen (1830–1881) first seen 1830 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Harry Slochower in "Julius Bahnsen, Philosopher of Heroic Despair, 1830-1881" (1932), The Philosophical Review, 41(4), p. 381
“People don't know... They... are so fascinated by what's going on in the White House, they're not paying attention to what matters. ...[T]he reason I hope every single one of you reads my book (and if you can't afford to buy the book, it's in the library...) is that people need to know this or we will not get change.”
David Cay Johnston (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Next time you go to a talk by me, because I'm sure I'll be back with one of my future books. Maybe the one I hope to have out next year, which is a whole new tax system that's simple and... you can't cheat under my system without committing a crime. Bring a young person.”
David Cay Johnston (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I shall put the case somewhat from the standpoint of the militant suffragettes themselves, trying to give some idea of the philosophy and ethical principles underlying the militant propaganda and, above all, with the hope of making clear to American readers some of the radical differences between English and American conditions.”
Mary Winsor (1869–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Solidarity does not assume that our struggles are the same struggles, or that our pain is the same pain, or that our hope is for the same future. Solidarity involves commitment, and work, as well as the recognition that even if we do not have the same feelings, or the same lives, or the same bodies, we do live on common ground.”
Sara Ahmed (born 1969) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (2004), p. 189
“A Pioneering man does not lie to his family, Not joking, no serious, neither in April nor anytime, the worst lie is that the man has lied to his family "a lie of hope".”
Hisham al-Hashimi (1973–2020) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 31 March 2020
“You urge us today to vote no, and I would hope you would exercise your constitutional duty to cast your vote yes or no in accordance with your conscience.”
Dick Bond (Kansas politician) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Parsons Sun (February 18, 1994)
“There is no hope for anybody else. You might as well give up the ghost now.”
Colm O'Rourke (born 1957) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Dublin's dominance, RTÉ, February 2020
“Even bolder action is needed if there is to be any hope of eliminating the damage done by the global food system. A crucial first step is to raise awareness of the costs of the current system, and the multiple benefits of local food.”
Helena Norberg-Hodge (born 1946) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won’t Destroy the Environment, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Truthout (1 December 2018)
“I close my eyes and try to chew the root of some grass to suck the juice of some grass to suck the bitter juice of melancholy indeed there's no hope for anything there life's just a series of meaningless melancholies”
Sakutarō Hagiwara (1886–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have no more hope no more honor no more future. And irretrievable remorse alone scurried away like a field mouse.”
Sakutarō Hagiwara (1886–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lee fitted the key into his pocket ring and looked around once at the pitifully small room. Well, he told himself, you walk the ice and hope she's solid all the way across.”
Harold Keith (1903–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“....I grew up in a world where feminism was all around me like a beacon of hope cutting through the opposing ideas I was being taught at home....”
Yasmine Mohammed (born 1974) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Yasmine Mohammed in "MOHAMMED: Celebrating 'burkini' is betrayal, not benevolence",torontosun.com 2019, May 05.
“But, as for us, when we lack something, instead of struggling courageously against our difficulties, we come fawning to the rich, like puppies wagging their tails in the hope of being tossed a bare bone or some crumbs. To get what we want, we call them benefactors and protectors of Christians, attributing every virtue to them, even though they may be utterly wicked.”
Nilus of Sinai (365–430) said by 430 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The various positivities produced ... by the logic of political hope depend on the mathematical illusion that negated negations might somehow escape, and not redouble, such negativity.”
Lee Edelman (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But I have faith in the Korean people. I believe in their resilience and the potential of our dynamic nation. And so I pledge to embark on the making of a “Second Miracle on the Han River” premised on a new era of hope hand-in-hand with the Korean people.”
Park Geun-hye (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source