Quotes with hopes

  • No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.
  • A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
  • To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.
  • Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
  • As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.
  • Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
  • Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
  • Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
  • A.N. hopes in the next world for his felicity to live with Raphael, Mozart, and Goethe. But how can they be happy if they must live with him?
  • A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
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  • Lydia M. Child A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • John Ruskin Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Euripides To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Horace A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • A. A. Milne I suppose that everyone of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Peter F. Drucker Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Irvin S. Cobb A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
    Irvin S. Cobb
    American author, humorist, editor and columnist (1876 - 1944)
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  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    German musician and composer
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  • Berthold Auerbach A.N. hopes in the next world for his felicity to live with Raphael, Mozart, and Goethe. But how can they be happy if they must live with him?
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Barack Obama As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bernard Mandeville Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true motives of their hearts in the specious cloak of sociableness, and their concern for the public good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy appetites and the deformity of their desires.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Henry Ford Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Martin Amis Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
    Martin Amis
    British novelist (1949 - 2023)
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  • Bonnie Hunt Everyone hopes to get a fall slot, but I'm just happy to get on the air.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Gore Vidal Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Ada Cambridge Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
    Ada Cambridge
    English-born Australian writer (1844 - 1926)
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  • Samuel Smiles Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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