„No one, it seems to me, can hope to equal Augustine. Who, nowadays, could hope to equal one who, in my judgment, was the greatest in an age fertile in great minds?“

„To be American is to be a kin
To a courageous hope:
The trust that even if just for a moment
We can, we must, close rank as people,
One heart, one voice, one mind, created equal.“

—  Amanda Gorman American poet and activist 1998

The Republic Gives Thanks (2018)

„Youthfulness is not determined by age. It is determined by one's life force. One who possesses hope is forever young. One who continually advances is forever beautiful.“

—  Daisaku Ikeda Japanese writer 1928

„One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils of the world can be cured by legislation.“

—  Thomas Brackett Reed U.S. Representative from Maine, and Speaker of the House 1839 - 1902

Quoted by George W. Stimpson in A Book About American Politics http://books.google.com/books?id=5eQ5AAAAMAAJ&q=%22One+of+the+greatest+delusions+in+the+world+is+the+hope+that+the+evils+of+the+world+can+be+cured+by+legislation%22&pg=PA342#v=onepage (1952)

„I miss my friends in Paris. Holland is fine to paint, but Paris is the only place to follow one's studies. One can find judges there who will encourage you, who wil tell one what is necessary and what is missing. My great hope is to return as soon as the weather and luck are on my side for he journey.“

—  Johan Jongkind Dutch painter and printmaker regarded as a forerunner of Impressionism 1819 - 1891

Quote of Jongkind in his letter, Oct. 1856 from The Netherlands, to Martin Beugniet in Paris; as cited by Victorine Hefting, in Jongkinds's Universe, Henri Scrépel, Paris, 1976, p. 46
Martin Beugniet in Paris buys many new works of Jongkind and tried to persuade him to come back to France

„One shouldn't write one's own epitaph. I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism.“

—  Margrethe II of Denmark Queen of Denmark 1940

Unsourced

„“What can you do?”
“I can bring you in dream to one who dreams of you.”
“Will that help me?”
“No. But you will come, because you will hope that it will.”“

—  John C. Wright, libro Orphans of Chaos

Fuente: Orphans of Chaos (2005), Chapter 23, “Dreams and Desires” Section 1 (p. 305)

„If anything ever happened to any one who eagerly longed and never hoped, that is a true pleasure to the mind.“

—  Gaio Valerio Catullo, list of poems by Catullus

CVII, lines 1–2
Carmina
Original: (la) Si quicquam cupido optantique optigit umquam
insperanti, hoc est gratum animo proprie.

„If I died, would it get me out of my geometry test tomorrow? One could only hope.“

—  Kristin Cast, libro Marked

Fuente: Marked

„Now, suppose that the English community and the army were to leave India, taking with them all their cannons and their splendid weapons and all else, who then would be the rulers of India?…. Is it possible that under these circumstances two nations—the Mohammedans and the Hindus—could sit on the same throne and remain equal in power? Most certainly not. It is necessary that one of them should conquer the other. To hope that both could remain equal is to desire the impossible and the inconceivable… But until one nation has conquered the other and made it obedient, peace cannot reign in the land.“

—  Syed Ahmed Khan Indian educator and politician 1820 - 1898

Sir Syed Ahmed Khan (1817–1898), Speech in March 1888, Quoted by Dilip Hiro, "The Longest August: The Unflinching Rivalry Between India and Pakistan" https://yaleglobal.yale.edu/longest-august-unflinching-rivalry-between-india-and-pakistan

„My longings, my hopes, my dreams, and my every effort has been to live for Him who rescued me, to study for Him who gave me this mind, to serve Him who fashioned my will, and to speak for Him who gave me a voice.“

—  Ravi Zacharias Indian philosopher 1946

Fuente: Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

„My hope is in Christ, who strengthens the weakest by His divine help; I can do all in Him who strengthened me!“

—  Pope Pius X Catholic Pope and saint 1835 - 1914

As quoted in Life of Pius X (1918) by Francis Alice Forbes, p. 35
Variant translation: My hope is in Christ, who strengthens the weakest by His Divine help. I can do all in Him who strengthens me. His Power is infinite, and if I lean on him, it will be mine. His Wisdom is infinite, and if I look to Him counsel, I shall not be deceived. His Goodness is infinite, and if my trust is stayed in Him, I shall not be abandoned.
Contexto: I shall spare myself neither care nor labour nor vigils for the salvation of souls. My hope is in Christ, who strengthens the weakest by His divine help; I can do all in Him who strengthened me! His power is infinite, and if I lean on Him it will be mine; His wisdom is infinite, and if I look to Him for counsel I shall not be deceived; His goodness is infinite, and if my trust is stayed on Him I shall not be abandoned. Hope unites me to my God and Him to me. Although I know I am not sufficient for the burden, my strength is in Him. For the salvation of others I must bear weariness, face dangers, suffer offences, confront storms, fight against evil. He is my Hope.

„If we look at the reality of the world from the viewpoint of the industrial era, it is clear that there is no hope But there is another way to look at our situation. We can discover the large number of people who have decided to change. … If we do this, it seems equally impossible that we shall fail to solve our problems.“

—  Marilyn Ferguson American writer 1938 - 2008

The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Two, Premonitions of Transformation and Conspiracy

„An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile — hoping it will eat him last.“

—  Winston S. Churchill Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874 - 1965

In Reader's Digest (December 1954).
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Variante: An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

„I hope we may be able sooner or later to federate, to bring together, all these great dependencies of the British Empire into one supreme and Imperial Parliament (cheers), so that they should be all units of one body, that one should feel what the others feel, that all should be equally responsible, that all should have a share in the welfare and sympathize with the welfare of every part. That is what I hope, but there is very little hope for it if you weaken the ties which now bind the central portion of the Empire together.“

—  Joseph Chamberlain British businessman, politician, and statesman 1836 - 1914

Cheers.
Speech in Rawtenstall (8 July 1886), quoted in The Times (9 July 1886), p. 6
1880s

„Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.“

—  Samuel Johnson English writer 1709 - 1784

The Life of Cowley
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)

„If I died, would it get me out of my geometry test tomorrow? One could only hope." - Zoey Mongomery (Redbird)“

—  P. C. Cast, libro Marked

Fuente: Marked

„I could never have signed this treaty. I hope that that is clear to all who have heard me.“

—  Margaret Thatcher British stateswoman and politician 1925 - 2013

Speech to the House of Lords http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=108314 rejecting the Maastricht Treaty (7 June 1993)
Post-Prime Ministerial

„It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?“

—  Ludwig Wittgenstein Austrian-British philosopher 1889 - 1951

„A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are. “

—  Чонси Депью American politician 1834 - 1928