1,548 quotes
If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
President · American · 1890 – 1969
I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Poet · American · b. 1919
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
Francois Rabelais
Clergyman · French · d. 1553
When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.
Judith Viorst
Author · American · b. 1932
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang
Author · Chinese · 1895 – 1976
My sense about Greta is that people ought to wait and see and see if she doesn't indeed turn out to be as balanced as we hope and expect she will. But there you are.
Brit Hume
Journalist · American · b. 1943
Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.
Edward Gibbon
Historian · English · 1737 – 1794
Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.
Gustav Heinemann
Politician · German · 1899 – 1976
All what we hope for is that a day will come, when we have all gone, when people will say that this man has tried, and his family tried. This is all there is to seek in this world.
King Hussein I
Statesman · Jordanian · 1935 – 1999
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
Bernard Berenson
Historian · American · 1865 – 1959
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.
Galen Rowell
Photographer · American · 1940 – 2002
Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
Jean Kerr
Playwright · American · 1923 – 2003
Marriage is the death of hope.
Woody Allen
Director · American · b. 1935
I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.
James Herriot
Writer · British · 1916 – 1995
A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.
Charles M. Schulz
Cartoonist · 1922 – 2000
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
Vaclav Havel
Leader · Czechoslovakian · b. 1936
People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and they are right.
Marcy Kaptur
Politician · American · b. 1946
We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.
Kofi Annan
Statesman · b. 1938
We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.
Richard Leakey
Environmentalist · Kenyan · b. 1944
I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
J. B. Priestley
Writer · British · 1894 – 1984
Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
Norman Cousins
Editor · American · b. 1915
Well, clearly, for me in the immediate future, it is grappling, like so many other governors are grappling, with the economic woes of these states. We were all hoping to see some federal relief.
Jennifer Granholm
Politician · American · b. 1959
The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation.
Steven Cojocaru
Critic · Canadian · b. 1965
Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it.
Mary Landrieu
Politician · American · b. 1955
Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.
Helen Dunmore
Poet · British · b. 1952
I hope in time N. H. as well as the other States will feel the importance of Sovereignty.
William Whipple
Politician · American · 1730 – 1785
Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.
Carlo Collodi
Writer · Italian · 1826 – 1890
One must not hope to be more than one can be.
Nicolas de Chamfort
Writer · French
Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
William Samuel Johnson
Politician · American · 1727 – 1819
Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle
Philosopher · Greek
They have a fine breeze and are now we hope, well on their way.
Lewis Tappan
Businessman · American
The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight.
John Barton
Poet · Canadian
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.
Alfred Marshall
Economist · English · 1842 – 1924
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
Oliver Goldsmith
Poet · Irish · 1730 – 1774
I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.
David Rockefeller
Businessman · American · b. 1915
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
Anwar Sadat
Statesman · Egyptian · 1918 – 1981
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Abraham Lincoln
President · American · 1809 – 1865
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Leader · French · 1769 – 1821
If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
Arthur Eddington
Scientist · British · 1882 – 1944
The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.
F. L. Lucas
Critic · English
The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.
Simone Weil
Philosopher · French · 1909 – 1943
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Author · Canadian · 1796 – 1865
I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of characters. It's really not all lesbians any more.
Alison Bechdel
Cartoonist · American · b. 1960
The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.
Claude Debussy
Composer · French · 1862 – 1918
It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.
Paul Tsongas
Politician · American · 1941 – 1997
If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.
Eldridge Cleaver
Activist · American · 1935 – 1998
I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.
Barbara Boxer
Politician · American · b. 1940
And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations.
George Carey
Clergyman · English · b. 1935