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“Who against hope believed in hope.”
The Bible (active around 812) bartlett, Public domain source
“Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay.”
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (1808–1877) first seen 1840 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To the Duchess of Sutherland (c. 1840).
“There is a dark foreboding in thy speech; Thine eyes flash fearfully a moody joy That augurs a new downfall. Whence arise These desperate hopes, that seem to make thee fond Of lowest misery?”
Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No people can live in the past - not even in its own past. But if it no longer has a link with its history, it must of necessity perish. Persia, crowded with hardship and glory, ordeals and hopes. With the help of the Almighty, the lessons of the past constitute the best guide for the citizens of the future.”
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No matter what they say the time has come I'm ready now to start a new beginning With all our hopes and all our dreams And I know the stars will shine for you and for me From the moment you believe.”
Melanie C (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thou hast prevaricated with thy friend, By underhand contrivances undone me: And while my open nature trusted in thee, Thou hast slept in between me and my hopes, And ravish'd from me all my soul held dear. Thou hast betray'd me.”
Nicholas Rowe (1674–1718) first seen 1715 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lady Jane Grey (1715), Act II, scene 1, line 235.
“We must always have old memories and young hopes.”
Arsène Houssaye (1814–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed to Houssaye in: Forty Thousand Sublime and Beautiful Thoughts Gathered from the Roses, Clover Blossoms, Geraniums, Violets, Morning-glories, and Pansies of Literature, Christian Herald, 1915.
“We are in great hopes about poor Lydia.- An honest and ingenious motherly woman in our neighbourhood has undertaken the perfect cure of her, and we have every reason to think, with God's blessing, she will succeed- which is a blessing we shall owe entirely to the comfort of being poor, for had we been rich, the doctors would have had the honor of killing her a twelvemonth ago.”
Ignatius Sancho (1729–1780) first seen 1775 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (from vol 1, letter 28: 4 Oct 1775, to Miss L___ ) [sadly, little Lydia Sancho died in 1776]
“We cannot bank our hopes on possibilities. We must put our trust in ourselves, in our capabilities and efforts and strength and preparations not only for our success but even to avoid our own defeat.”
Aung San (1915–1947) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Presidential address to the AFPFL Supreme Council Session (August 1946)
“What, know you not […] That love must kiss that Mortal’s eyes Who hopes to see fair Arcady? No gold can buy you entrance there; But beggared Love may go all bare— No wisdom won with weariness; But Love goes in with Folly’s dress— No fame that wit could ever win; But only Love may lead Love in To Arcady, to Arcady.”
Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855–1896) first seen 1892 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Compare Louise Chandler Moulton, "The Secret of Arcady" (1892).
“Gods fade; but God abides and in man’s heart Speaks with the clear unconquerable cry Of energies and hopes that can not die.”
John Addington Symonds (1840–1893) first seen 1882 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the Sacro Monte". Animi Figura (1882) p. 96
“'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, — not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.”
Clement Clarke Moore (1779–1863) first seen 1823 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Visit from St. Nicholas, l. 1. Published anonymously in the Troy, New York Sentinel on December 23, 1823, and was reprinted frequently thereafter with no name attached; later attributed to Clement Clarke Moore and inc…
“The ploughman ploughs, the fisherman dreams of fish; Aloft, the sailor, through a world of ropes Guides tangled meditations, feverish With memories of girls forsaken, hopes Of brief reunions, new discoveries, Past rum consumed, rum promised, rum potential.”
Michael Hamburger (1924–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So tonight, in honor of my father's memory and my daughters' future — out of gratitude to those whose triumphs we mark this week, and those whose everyday sacrifices have brought us to this moment — let us devote ourselves to finishing their work; let us work together to fulfill their hopes; and let us stand together to elect Barack Obama president of the United States of America.”
Michelle Obama (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Far from mortal cares retreating, Sordid hopes and vain desires, Here, our willing footsteps meeting, Every heart to heaven aspires.”
Jane Taylor (1783–1824) said by 1824 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hymn, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're doing every day.”
Marcus Buckingham (born 1966) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Author Marcus Buckingham, cited in: Michel Beaudry, "Sam Rees - making the Whistler leap," at piquenewsmagazine.com, November 28, 2013.
“But I account it worth All pangs of fair hopes crost— All loves and honors lost,— To gain the heavens, at cost Of losing earth.”
Theodore Tilton (1835–1907) said by 1907 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sir Marmaduke's Musings, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Time does more than erode a riverbank or wear mountains down into tired hills. It takes the edge from our memories as well, overlaying everything with a soft focus so that it all blurs together. What really happened gets all jumbled up with the hopes and dreams we once had and what we wish had really happened.”
Charles de Lint (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by;Yet in thy dark streets shineth The everlasting Light; The hopes and fears of all the years Are met in thee to-night.”
Phillips Brooks (1835–1893) said by 1893 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth, The longings after something lost, The spirit’s yearning cry, The strivings after better hopes,— These things can never die.”
Sarah Doudney (1841–1926) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Poem: Things that never die, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Tis been said that I should apply to the United States for a pardon, but repentance must precede the right of pardon, and I have not repented. Remembering as I must all which has been suffered, all which has been lost, disappointed hopes and crushed aspirations, yet I deliberately say, if it were to do over again, I would again do just as I did in 1861.”
Jefferson Davis (1808–1889) first seen 1881 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In 1881, in an address to the state legislature.
“Traditional men make their sacrifices in significant measure in the hopes of being appreciated when they come home, and having their learning experiences integrated into their homes.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah, were she pitiful as she is fair, Or but as mild as she is seeming so, Then were my hopes greater than my despair, Then all the world were heaven, nothing woe.”
Robert Greene (dramatist) first seen 1694 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Song, "Fawnia", l. 1 (ed. 1694); Dyce, p. 294
“When Gallic powers Columbia's fury found; And so may you, whoever dares disgrace The land of freedom's heaven-defended race! Fix'd are the eyes of nations on the scales, For in their hopes Columbia's arm prevails.”
Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784) said by 1784 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hail the mild morning, where the dawn began, The full fruition of the hopes of man. Where sage Experience seals the sacred cause, And that rare union, Liberty and Laws, Speaks to the reas'ning race “to freedom rise, Like them be equal, and like them be wise.”
Joel Barlow (1754–1812) said by 1812 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, after all, constantly going on about the business of witnessing in the hopes of making converts to their God and church. Would you want to shower with such people? You never know when they might try to baptize you.”
Stanley Hauerwas (born 1940) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From "Why Gays (as a Group) are Morally Superior to Christians (as a Group)" in The Hauerwas Reader (2001) eds. John Berkman and Michael Cartwright
“The Psalms are an everlasting manual to the soul; the book of its immortal wishes, its troubles, its aspirations, and its hopes; sung in every tongue, and in every age; destined to endure while the universe of God has light, harmony, or grandeur, while man has religion or sensibility, while language has sublimity or sweetness.”
Henry Giles (1809–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world, and vilifying human nature.”
George Henry Lewes (1817–1878) said by 1878 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ashamed of the many Frailties they feel within, all Men endeavour to hide themselves, their Ugly Nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true Motives of their Hearts in the Specious Cloke of Sociableness, and their Concern for the publick Good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy Appetites and the Deformity of their Desires.”
Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733) said by 1733 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He liked the style, that wry gallows humor armed with the semblance of omniscience; a most serviceable style it was, the dialect of the initiated, protecting them from their disillusionments, their fears, their well-concealed childish hopes.”
Imre Kertész (1929–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sensible of his ill-desert and helplessness, persuaded of the all-sufficiency of the Redeemer, the believer therefore makes a voluntary surrender of himself into the hands of Christ, to be saved upon His own terms. He relinquishes his vain confidences, and places all his hopes on Christ. He casts himself into His arms. " Lord, to whom shall I go but to Thee?”
Gardiner Spring (1785–1873) said by 1873 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Out into the cool of the evening, Strolls the Pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams Begin and end there”
Jackson Browne (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had this lump in my throat, but I couldn't even cry. I thought, I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up. I was just sitting there in my car that I was two months behind on payments for, knowing I didn't have money for rent.”
Katy Perry (born 1984) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On not getting signed by Capitol Records, after months of negotiations, in 2007.
“We don't live in our fears, we live in our hopes.”
Mike Tomlin (born 1972) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Following the Steelers win over the Rams in 2007, quoted in "Steelers Notebook: Turf wars — Natural or artificial at Heinz Field?" by Gerry Dulac in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (22 December 2007)
“Our prayers can be more than empty wishes, vain hopes or feeble aspirations – but only when they are prayed from faith-filled hearts.”
Bill Hybels (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why freedom? If we accept that God is love, and that it is human beings who are to respond to this love, the explanation is simple. Love cannot be forced, ordered, or made obligatory. It is necessarily free. If God liberates, it is because he expects and hopes that we will come to know him and love him.”
Jacques Ellul (1912–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.”
Sidney Hook (1902–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must feel all the emotions that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humor will stimulate a like mood in the listener.”
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788) said by 1788 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Composers on Music : An Anthology of Composers' Writings from Palestrina to Copland (1956) by Sam Morgenstern, p. 60
“The world awakens on the run And will soon be earning With hopes of better days to come It's a morning yearning.”
Ben Harper (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dying visions of angels and Christ and God and heaven are confined to credibly good men. Why do not bad men have such visions? They die of all sorts of diseases; they have nervous temperaments; they even have creeds and hopes about the future which they cling to with very great tenacity; why do not they rejoice in some such glorious illusions when they go out of the world?”
Enoch Fitch Burr (1818–1907) said by 1907 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Gonna pull in the shutters on this heart of mine Roll up the carpets and pull in the blinds And retreat to the chambers that I left behind In hopes there still may be love left to find Still may be love left to find.”
Dan Fogelberg (1951–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Remember that you are to venture the whole salvation of your soul on Christ, and on Christ only. You are to cast loose completely and entirely from all other hopes and trusts. You are not to rest partly on Christ,—partly on doing all you can,—partly on keeping your Church,—partly on receiving the sacrament. In the matter of your justification Christ is to be all.”
J. C. Ryle (1816–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The cycle of violence will continue far into the new millennium. Hopes for peace will probably not be realized, because the great that shape the international system fear each other and compete for power as a result. Indeed, their ultimate aim is to gain a position of dominant power over others, because having dominant power is the best means to ensure one's own survival.”
John Mearsheimer (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I cannot hear thy voice with others' ears, Who make of thy lost liberty a gain; And in thy tale of blighted hopes and fears Feel not that every note is born with pain.”
Jones Very (1813–1880) said by 1880 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It came about like a typical audition where the actress doesn’t know a soul in the room, and exposes her heart and vulnerability in hopes of winning a handful of strangers’ affection.”
Masiela Lusha (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm certainly somebody who hopes for more 960 in classical format because I feel like 960 is not that suited to rapid and blitz because you're just gonna play too poorly. You're just gonna have absolutely no clue, but if you actually have time to sit down and think for half an hour on your first five moves, then maybe you can get some more understanding of the game.”
Magnus Carlsen (born 1990) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in a stream with Eric Hansen, April 2021 53:29 - 54:36 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTJ100arAbw
“I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in a way which was essential to the realization of Communism in the future. Regarded as a splendid attempt, without which ultimate success would have been very improbable, Bolshevism deserves the gratitude and admiration of all the progressive part of mankind.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The hopes which inspire communism are, in the main, as admirable as those instilled by the Sermon on the Mount, but they are held as fanatically and are as likely to do as much harm.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The strangest mores of the most of-the-way societies will, in spite of everything, be relatively comprehensible to the person who has a flesh-and-blood knowledge of man's needs, anxieties, and hopes. If, on the other hand, this experience is lacking, he will not even be able to understand the customs of those about him.”
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source