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The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

Edward Kennedy

I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

Katherine Mansfield
New Zealand short story author (1888 - 1923)

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French author & moralist (1613 - 1680)

America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.

President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.

Woodrow Wilson
28th president of US (1856 - 1924)

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.

Albert Camus
French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960)

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

La Rochefoucauld

The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.

Kenneth Patchen

More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and despair, the other to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Woody Allen
US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

W. Somerset Maugham
English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)

What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.

Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets
English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784)

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles F. Kettering
US electrical engineer & inventor (1876 - 1958)

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

Poet Louise Bogan

...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from "Love in the Time of Cholera"

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

Duke of Wellington

Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.

Mae West
US movie actress (1892 - 1980)

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Robert H. Goddard
US physicist & pioneer rocket engineer (1882 - 1945)

Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.

Julius Frontinus, 1st century A.D.

Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.

Stephen Jay Gould
US author, naturalist, paleontologist, & popularizer of science (1941 - 2002)

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