1,548 quotes
Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Author · American
I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.
Oliver North
Soldier · American · b. 1943
My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you.
Keith Miller
Author · American · b. 1927
Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998.
Robert MacNeil
Journalist · Canadian · b. 1931
When I get into bed at night, I hope I don't get into it alone!
Calvin Klein
Designer · American · b. 1942
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.
Norman Cousins
Editor · American · b. 1915
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
Edsger Dijkstra
Scientist · Dutch · 1930 – 2002
I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.
Tom Hayden
Politician · American · b. 1939
As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.
Bob Beauprez
Politician · American · b. 1948
There's a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity, and the hope, later, that is expected to apply to what the changes are in humans as well.
Linda M. Godwin
Astronaut · American · b. 1952
Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much.
Daniel Greenberg
Educator · American
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.
Ivan Illich
Sociologist · American · 1926 – 2002
Hope is but the dream of those who wake.
Matthew Prior
Poet · English · 1664 – 1721
It is our hope that in future discussions with the Mexican government, you will encourage Mexico to do its part to address illegal immigration rather than encourage their citizens to illegally enter the U.S.
Elton Gallegly
Politician · American · b. 1944
My sweetest hope is to lose hope.
Pierre Corneille
Dramatist · French · 1606 – 1684
As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased.
George Steinbrenner
Businessman · American · 1930 – 2010
Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
Jesse Jackson
Activist · American · b. 1941
I've never been a cop nor hope to be a cop, thanks.
Evan Hunter
Author · American · 1926 – 2005
The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.
Story Musgrave
Astronaut · American · b. 1935
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Evan Esar
Writer · American
I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.
George Muller
Clergyman · English · 1805 – 1898
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
Ouida
Novelist · English · 1839 – 1908
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
Aristotle Onassis
Businessman · Greek · 1906 – 1975
I hope it goes beyond meeting with them to a willingness to listen and compromise on issues.
Dennis Moore
Politician · American · b. 1945
A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.
Howard Thurman
Educator · American · 1900 – 1981
In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
Leader · South African · b. 1928
My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.
Alex Haley
Novelist · American · 1921 – 1992
And I hope very much that the ALP will become increasingly engaged in the international discussions that are taking place amongst centre-left parties generally.
Patricia Hewitt
Politician · British · b. 1948
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
Erma Bombeck
Journalist · American · 1927 – 1996
Where there's life, there's hope.
Terence
Writer · Roman
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
George Dennison Prentice
Editor · American
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Philosopher · Swiss · b. 1821
A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
Daisaku Ikeda
Writer · Japanese · b. 1928
A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.
Stanislav Grof
Psychologist · Czechoslovakian · b. 1931
Ah, I hope to live to 87 and drink from the the goblet of life to the dregs.
Theo Van Gogh
Director · Dutch · 1957 – 2004
The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.
Ralph Bunche
Diplomat · American · 1904 – 1971
As a regent, I hope to bring that important perspective of a typical family visitor in combination with my background as a Member of Congress and a proponent of the Smithsonian's efforts to reach all Americans.
Xavier Becerra
Politician · American · b. 1958
The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm.
Gay Talese
Author · American · b. 1932
If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity.
Johann Most
Revolutionary · German · 1846 – 1906
Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure.
Ernest Lawrence
Scientist · American · 1901 – 1958
Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.
Christina Rossetti
Poet · British · 1830 – 1894
The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.
Charles Bradlaugh
Activist · English · 1833 – 1891
I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.
Nora Roberts
Author · American · b. 1950
Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.
Charles Wesley
Clergyman · English · 1707 – 1788
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
Anne Lamott
Author · American · b. 1954
I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
Ogden Nash
Poet · American · 1902 – 1971
Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Historian · American · 1917 – 2007
Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
Jeffrey Archer
Politician · English · b. 1940