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William Shakespeare2 quotes
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings;
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. — William Shakespeare · 1597Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises, and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest and despair most shifts. — William Shakespeare · 1616Alexander Pope1 quote
Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never is, but always to be blessed. — Alexander Pope · 1733Andy Dufresne1 quote
Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. — Andy Dufresne · 1994Aristotle1 quote
Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle · 240Baruch Spinoza1 quote
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677Bertrand Russell1 quote
To acquiesce in despair is the very way to make despairing forecasts come true. — Bertrand Russell · 1951Cicero1 quote
While there's life, there's hope. — Cicero · 49 BCDante Alighieri1 quote
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding1 quote
Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. — Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding · 1994Francis Bacon1 quote
Hope is a good Break-fast, but it is a bad Supper. — Francis Bacon · 1625Hannah Arendt1 quote
The worst have lost their fear and the best have lost their hope. — Hannah Arendt · 1951Harvey Milk1 quote
I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. — Harvey Milk · 1984James Joyce1 quote
I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world. — James Joyce · 1915Lord Byron1 quote
What is Hope? nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of. — Lord Byron · 1815Michelle Obama1 quote
Don't ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility. Make decisions based on what should happen, not what shouldn't. — Michelle Obama · 2008Mignon McLaughlin1 quote
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent. — Mignon McLaughlin · 1963Pablo Neruda1 quote
Our original guiding stars are struggle and hope. — Pablo Neruda · 1971Paul Eluard1 quote
Hope raises no dust. — Paul Eluard · 1946Pier Paolo Pasolini1 quote
We never have despair without some small hope. — Pier Paolo Pasolini · 1961Reinhold Niebuhr1 quote
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. — Reinhold Niebuhr · 1952Seamus Heaney1 quote
History says, Don't hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme. — Seamus Heaney · 1990Studs Terkel1 quote
Hope has never trickled down. It has always sprung up. — Studs Terkel · 2003Yevgeny Baratynsky1 quote
Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm. — Yevgeny Baratynsky · 1823