Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Scott

The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.

Walter Scott

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

Winston Churchill

Hope has returned to the hearts of scores of millions of men and women, and with that hope there burns the flame of anger against the brutal, corrupt invader ... In a dozen famous ancient States now prostrate under the Nazi yoke, the masses of the people ... await the hour of liberation ... That hour will strike, and its solemn peal will proclaim that the night is past and that the dawn has come.

Winston Churchill

I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.

Winston Churchill

It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift.

Winston Churchill

Nourish your hopes, but do not overlook realities.

Winston Churchill

The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.

William S. Burroughs

I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.

William Lyon Phelps

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

Woodrow Wilson

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

William Wordsworth

Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.

William Wordsworth

We live by admiration, hope and love.

William Shenstone

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

William J. Clinton

I still believe in a place called Hope, a place called America.

William J. Clinton

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

Will Durant

Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Expect to have hope rekindled. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.

Samuel Butler

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

W. H. Auden

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade

W. H. Auden

A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.

William Cowper

The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.

William Cowper

Folly ends where genuine hope begins.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Hope is a slow business.

Vita Sackville-West

To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.

Roseanne Barr

I try to tell people to keep having hope. It's always what you don't know and don't expect that's gonna be so great.

Robert Smithson

Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.

Yusef Komunyakaa

I knew life Began where I stood in the dark, Looking out into the light.

Yoshio Taniguchi

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

William Hazlitt

We dread life's termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope.

William Hazlitt

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

William Hazlitt

Hope is the best possession.

William Hazlitt

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.