1,548 quotes
We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.
James Laughlin
Poet · American · 1914 – 1997
Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
William Wordsworth
Poet · English · 1770 – 1850
The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.
Thabo Mbeki
Statesman · South African · b. 1942
Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.
Kofi Annan
Statesman · b. 1938
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
George Washington Carver
Scientist · American · 1864 – 1943
At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.
Stanislav Grof
Psychologist · Czechoslovakian · b. 1931
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln
President · American · 1809 – 1865
Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.
George Weinberg
Psychologist · American
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
Democritus
Philosopher · Greek
You kind of hope that the events themselves are interesting. I think that's what you have to hope for, that on a broad level it's an interesting story.
Chester Brown
Cartoonist · Canadian · b. 1960
Democrats were simply hoping to win some political points by getting their outlandish rhetoric published in the newspapers and heard on the talk shows.
John Doolittle
Politician · American · b. 1950
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson
Author · English · 1709 – 1784
I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.
Gustav Mahler
Composer · Austrian · 1860 – 1911
I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.
Charles Olson
Poet · American · 1910 – 1970
I don't know. I have incredible amounts of hope that things can change. It takes people who believe.
Morgan Spurlock
Director · American · b. 1970
He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
B. C. Forbes
Journalist · Scottish · 1880 – 1954
Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
Abraham Cowley
Poet · English · d. 1667
For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning.
John Thorn
Historian · American · b. 1947
We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages.
Sidney Altman
Scientist · Canadian · b. 1939
A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.
James Payn
Novelist · English · 1830 – 1898
You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.
Leon Uris
Writer · American · 1924 – 2003
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
Antonio Porchia
Poet · Italian · 1886 – 1968
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
Quintilian
Educator · Roman
The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.
Joe Biden
Vice President · American · b. 1942
In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program.
Seth Lloyd
Educator · American
All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.
David Attenborough
Journalist · British · b. 1926
It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished.
Eisaku Sato
Politician · Japanese · 1901 – 1975
Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.
Anne Stevenson
Poet · American
There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.
Anita Brookner
Historian · English · b. 1938
We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.
Ivan Illich
Sociologist · American · 1926 – 2002
Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.
John Le Carre
Writer · English · b. 1931
The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
Amelia Barr
Novelist · American
There are a lot of issues that I hope we deal with at some point that we haven't up to now, for various reasons. Some technical, and some more political.
Will Wright
Scientist · American · b. 1960
For hope is but a dream for those that wake.
Matthew Prior
Poet · English · 1664 – 1721
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George Washington
President · American · 1732 – 1799
To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist · Russian · 1821 – 1881
If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.
Eamon de Valera
Statesman · Irish · 1882 – 1975
Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
James A. Baldwin
Author · American · 1924 – 1987
So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful.
Jennifer Granholm
Politician · American · b. 1959
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
John Ciardi
Dramatist · English · 1916 – 1986
Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people.
I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.
Zhang Yimou
Director · Chinese · b. 1950
The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.
Charles Simeon
Clergyman · English
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
Malcolm Forbes
Publisher · American · 1917 – 1990
Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.
Corazon Aquino
Statesman · b. 1933
We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding.
Roy Barnes
Politician · American · b. 1948
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
Wendell Berry
Poet · American · b. 1934
It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.
Edward Livingston
Judge · American · 1764 – 1836