Bettany Hughes Quotes

The highest hope of Socrates’ peers, of young Athenian men, was to serve Athens by dying for her.

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• There is a big divergence between views on a variety of policy issues from fiscal stimulus to financial regulation. It's my hope and my ambition for the economics profession that as we advance our knowledge, that those discussions will narrow in their focus, and that it will help to have more prudent policy-making down the road.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • Help
  • Hope
  • Knowledge

• You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • People
  • Hope
  • Moral

• What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Time
  • Work
  • Why

• We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Future

• I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best.

  

  Wale
  • Hope
  • Think
  • Best

• The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.

  

  Aberjhani
  • America
  • Hope
  • Past

• I think it's important to be diverse, and I hope we continue to see that as a trend in the fashion industry.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Important
  • Hope
  • Fashion

• When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Business

• The Internet is the hope of an integrated world without frontiers, a common world without controlling owners, a world of opportunities and equality. This is a utopia that we have been dreaming about and is a world in which each and every one of us are protagonists of a destiny that we have in our hands.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • World
  • Hope
  • Destiny

• I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Time
  • Hope

• The happiest day - the happiest hourMy sear'd and blighted heart hath known,The highest hope of pride and power,I feel hath flown.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Heart
  • Power
  • Hope

• I have learned not only that the colors and the sounds of war are the same, but the fears of war are the same. You know, there is a fear of dying.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • War
  • Fear
  • Dying

• Awakening hope has named the nameOf love, or blown its spark to flame.Restlessness, but as the winds rangeFrom leaf to leaf, from flower to flower;Changefulness, but as rainbows change,From colour'd sky to sunlit hour.Ay, well indeed may minstrel sing,-What have the heart and year like spring?

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Heart
  • May
  • Hope

• Mother, mother There's too many of you crying. Brother, brother, brother There's far too many of you dying. You know we've got to find a way To bring some lovin' here today.

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • Mother
  • Today
  • Brother

• I hope that with our music we can inspire other people to be creative and to use their imagination, because it is something that is so lacking nowadays. You have virtual reality, MTV, video games and VCR's. Nobody really wants to think about things or create things. You have programs on a computer which will write a poem for you.

  

  Brian Hugh Warner
  • People
  • Music
  • Hope

• There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Up
  • Long
  • Heart

• I might have preferred iron, but bronze will do. It won't rust. And, this time I hope, the head will stay on.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Time
  • Hope

• It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope. lf we are united, we may be able to produce a world in which our children and other people's children will be safe.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song for a very experienced side.

  

  Michel Platini
  • World
  • Song
  • Team

• My long struggles as a soldier of the Chinese Revolution have forced me to realize the necessity of facing hard facts. There will be neither peace, nor hope, nor future for any of us unless we honestly aim at political, social and economic justice for all peoples of the world, great and small.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • World
  • Great
  • Long

• I never felt ready to have a baby until I was about 37 years old. I knew I always wanted kids someday, but I needed to be 'ready,' ya know?

  

  Constance Marie
  • Kids
  • Baby
  • Knew

• At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to that moment. If he's being installed as Chieftain or receiving a Nobel Prize, that's a fulfilling notion. But if he's in a sleeping bag at ten thousand feet in a snowstorm, parked in the middle of a highway and waiting to freeze to death, the idea can make him feel calamitously stupid.

  

  William Lewis Trogdon
  • Done
  • Moments
  • Sleep

• The highest hope of Socrates’ peers, of young Athenian men, was to serve Athens by dying for her.

  

  Bettany Hughes
  • Hope
  • Dying
  • Athens