939 private quotes tagged hope

“The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.” — Tony Blair

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“At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.” — William Hague

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“Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.” — Bryant H. McGill

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“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.” — William Cowper

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“When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.” — John Adams

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“I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.” — Jack Kerouac

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“I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.” — Chief Joseph

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“The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.” — Jacques Yves Cousteau

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“If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.” — David Brainerd

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“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” — Joseph Addison

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“It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.” — Ricky Skaggs

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“I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.” — George McGovern

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“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

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“It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.” — Richard P. Feynman

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“To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge, and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking, 'My ear looks weird from this angle, why is the camera over there?'” — Anna Kendrick

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“The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most.” — Curt Schilling

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“I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.” — Brian Clough

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“To live without Hope is to Cease to live.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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“That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.” — William McKinley

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“Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.” — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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“In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

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“Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.” — Bruce Barton

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“Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.” — John Quincy Adams

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