Quotations About / On: HOPE

  • 91.
    Help me, Obi Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
    (George Lucas (b. 1944), U.S. director, screenwriter. Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), Star Wars, message sent on a hologram of Leia and carried by robot R2D2 (1977).)
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  • 92.
    My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.
    (Thomas Arnold (1795-1842), British educator, scholar. Letter, March 2, 1828. The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, DD, vol. 1, ch. 2, ed. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1845). Written on appointment as headmaster of Rugby School.)
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  • 93.
    I love Germany so dearly that I hope there will always be two of them.
    (François Mauriac (1885-1970), French author. quoted in Newsweek (New York, Nov. 20, 1989).)
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  • 94.
    Down went the owners—greedy men whom hope of gain allured:
    Oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured.
    (Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911), British librettist. "Etiquette," The "Bab" Ballads (1866-1871).)
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  • 95.
    And then in the fulness of joy and hope,
    Seemed washing his hands with invisible soap,
    In imperceptible water.
    (Thomas Hood (1799-1845), British poet. "Her Christening," Miss Kilmansegg (1841-1843).)
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  • 96.
    I hope there are some who will brave ridicule for the sake of common justice to half the people in the world.
    (Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1827-1891), British feminist. As quoted in Barbara Bodichon, Introduction, by Candida Lacey (1987). Written in 1849, shen she was twenty-two. Bodichon was a radical activist who formulated the unsuccessful Married Women's Property Bill in England in 1857.)
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  • 97.
    In Arms not worse, in foresight much advanc't,
    We may with more successful hope resolve
    To wage by force or guile eternal Warr
    Irreconcileable, to our grand Foe,
    (John Milton (1608-1674), British poet. Paradise Lost (l. Bk. I, l. 119-122). . . The Complete Poetry of John Milton. John T. Shawcross, ed. (1963, rev. ed. 1971) Doubleday.)
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  • 98.
    Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.
    (Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), British poet, lyricist. Hope Is Like a Harebell. Harebell = bluebell.)
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  • 99.
    I hope to "stand firm" enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
    (Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), U.S. president. letter to Zachariah Chandler, Nov. 20, 1863. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 7, p. 24, Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990).)
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  • 100.
    The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
    (John Gay (1685-1732), British dramatist, poet. Peachum, in The Beggar's Opera, act 1, sc. 10 (1728), ed. F.W. Bateson (1934).)
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