Quotes about Hoped

A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead? Votes: 3

I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story. Votes: 2

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for. Votes: 2

I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement. Votes: 2

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger. Votes: 2

I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else. Votes: 2

We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations. Votes: 2

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. Votes: 2

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family. Votes: 2

We as voters, have long hoped that we would get a businessman instead of a politician in order to help fix America's problems. Well, I am that businessman. Votes: 2

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book. Votes: 2

Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction. Votes: 2

I always had the dream that, once I became No 1 in the world, that if I had a child I hoped I would have it early enough so the child can see me playing. Votes: 2

I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before. Votes: 2

Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret? Votes: 2

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me. Votes: 2

I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me. Votes: 2

I went through my whole life wanting to feel I belonged. I was very, very lonely, so I would marry people that I wasn't really in love with, and who weren't right for me, because I hoped they would be. Votes: 2

With reality TV, sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be everything you hoped, and the camera loves them and they just blossom on the show. And then sometimes it's not all you envision. Votes: 2

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom. Votes: 2

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it. Votes: 2

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? Votes: 2

The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle. Votes: 2

I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way. Votes: 2

The rise of a ubiquitous Internet, along with 24-hour news channels has, in some sense, had the opposite effect from what many might have hoped such free and open access to information would have had. It has instead provided free and open access, without the traditional media filters, to a barrage of disinformation. Votes: 2

The Gospels record that nearly everywhere the Savior went, He was surrounded by multitudes of people. Some hoped that He would heal them; others came to hear Him speak. Others came for practical advice. Toward the end of His mortal ministry, some came to mock and ridicule Him and to clamor for His crucifixion. Votes: 2

Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith. Votes: 2

My mother hoped I'd be a plumber. Votes: 0

I had hoped God would be neutral. Votes: 0

He who has never hoped can never despair Votes: 0

We dreamt of light, but hoped for darkness. Votes: 0

What can be hoped for which is not believed? Votes: 0

It just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for. Votes: 0

My recovery, though slower than hoped for, is nevertheless assured. Votes: 0

Welcome will arrived, the hour that was not hoped for. Votes: 0

I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue. Votes: 0

As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish. Votes: 0

Jerry and I hoped that it would be a popular bestseller. Votes: 0

I hoped Lissa remained the only one with a surprise sibling. Votes: 0

His was not a lazy trustfulness that hoped, and did no more. Votes: 0

I was beloved. I had been hoped for. Somehow, I was necessary. Votes: 0

We did not hope for the same things, but we all hoped Votes: 0

He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught. Votes: 0

Other people's ideas of us are dependent largely on what they've hoped for. Votes: 0

Russell Defreitas plotted to commit a terrorist attack that he hoped would rival 9/11. Votes: 0

She hadn't slain the dragon. Not at all. She hoped no one ever would. Votes: 0

Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear Votes: 0

Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him. Votes: 0

We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home. Votes: 0

I hoped I could make people smile and laugh and have a good time. Votes: 0

What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world. Votes: 0

Hey, ugly!" Annabeth yelled. I hoped she was talking to the giant, not me. Votes: 0

The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped. Votes: 0

Now, evolution is the substance of fossils hoped for, the evidence of links not seen. Votes: 0

I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life. Votes: 0

I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me. Votes: 0

I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments. Votes: 0

Maybe I shouldn’t mouth off to the elemental I kinda hoped was my future mother-in-law. Votes: 0

For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection. Votes: 0

Because sometimes people who seem goodend up being not as good as you might have hoped. Votes: 0

My life/career is more filled with left-field thrills than I could ever have hoped for. Votes: 0

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrew 11:1 KJV) Votes: 0

Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared. Votes: 0

I hoped that the trip would be the best of all journeys: a journey into ourselves. Votes: 0

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction. Votes: 0

Me? I slept like the dead, which I hoped wasn't a sign of things to come. Votes: 0

I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped. Votes: 0

The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause. Votes: 0

The changes in your life aren't always what you hoped for. But they usually help you grow. Votes: 0

there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for. Votes: 0

The Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City. Votes: 0

I hoped there would be a better process. But it is final -- I will not participate . Votes: 0

The girl had hoped for fog, but the gods ignored her prayers as gods so often did. Votes: 0

What matters more? What you said you'd do, what you hoped to do, or what you did? Votes: 0

I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else. Votes: 0

I wish you the best that can be hoped for, and no worse than can be expected. Votes: 0

I hoped, hoped, that maybe I'd be lucky enough to do something on Broadway, in the chorus. Votes: 0

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen. Votes: 0

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped. Votes: 0

It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party. Votes: 0

Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know? Votes: 0

She fixed a smile that she hoped looked authentic. Pretending to be content continued to be hard work. Votes: 0

I hoped I wasn't actually dead. That would make finding our parents and saving the world really hard. Votes: 0

I had hoped that he has mouth smell or something other repelling, but nothing! It was even charming. Votes: 0

All that existed was Jace; all she felt, hoped, breathed, wanted, and saw was Jace. Nothing else mattered. Votes: 0

Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not. Votes: 0

I think ABC sort of hoped I would be really like Carol Burnett. I mean literally, I think. Votes: 0

When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories. Votes: 0

Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected. Votes: 0

Certainly I had my preference, and I very much hoped that George W. Bush would be our next president. Votes: 0

Surely, no one hoped for so many things. Hold the flowers close to your heart; they may someday bloom. Votes: 0

In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal. Votes: 0

Dad rubbed his foreheadNo Sophie, its alright. That's what I hoped you would do. You hoped I'd commit mirrorcide? Votes: 0

For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be. Votes: 0

Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to. Votes: 0

..."I ran out of stock around midnight and dropped by a place, got some Chinese." I hoped he meant takeout. Votes: 0

Everything that I have ever hoped to accomplish, she has done and done better than anyone I have ever seen. Votes: 0

I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter. Votes: 0

Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength. Votes: 0

I hoped that, you know, France wouldn't mind about, you know, the wife of their president to having a job. Votes: 0

I hoped they couldn't run very fast with those stubby little legs and flippers, but they waddled along pretty well. Votes: 0

My name is Mortimer Alexander and I am a licensed summoner." "Darn. I'd hoped you were the pizza delivery guy. Votes: 0

There are a lot of things about my career now that are as I imagined, hoped for and worked towards. Votes: 0

It is an extraordinary thing to meet your heroes and find them to be everything you hoped they would be. Votes: 0

The U.S. Forces are winning in Iraq. It is to be hoped that they will win at home also. Votes: 0

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. Votes: 0

We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough. Votes: 0

My life might not turn out to be easy I thought. I just hoped I'd turn out to be strong. Votes: 0

A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be... Votes: 0

Her Majesty said she hoped I would have time for my horses - I own two and have shares in four. Votes: 0

The United States enjoy a scene of prosperity and tranquility under the new government that could hardly have been hoped for. Votes: 0

Jesus did not only serve the needs of the people, but truly hoped that the people and Jesus would be one. Votes: 0

I obviously hoped that everything that I found would make a difference, ... It ended up being way behind my wildest dreams. Votes: 0

Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped. Votes: 0

So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped. Votes: 0

A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped. Votes: 0

For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away. Votes: 0

For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away. Votes: 0

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again. Votes: 0

I've never made the film I wanted to make. No matter what happens, it never turns out exactly as I hoped. Votes: 0

Being an action star is all I had ever hoped to be. I ultimately knew I would be an action star. Votes: 0

If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible. Votes: 0

What I really hoped to do with my work was to at least be able to define my relationship to race. Votes: 0

I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be. Votes: 0

It is hoped that by God's assistance, some of the continents in the Ocean will be discovered ... for the Glory of God. Votes: 0

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it. Votes: 0

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg. Votes: 0

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work. Votes: 0

You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings. Votes: 0

I hoped I wasn't blushing. It was bad enough I had to depend on my mom to drive me to my battles. Votes: 0

My father believed a real man didn't read, and my parents hoped I'd get some sense and find a job in insurance. Votes: 0

I didn't want to see you." "They told me." "I was afraid that I'd still love you." "I hoped that you would. Votes: 0

When the dead body said, "Good evening," Annabel had to face the grim conclusion that it wasn't as dead as she'd hoped. Votes: 0

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for. Votes: 0

I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems. Votes: 0

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty. Votes: 0

There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief. Votes: 0

I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted out. Votes: 0

In terms of how [Allied] looks, it's fantastic and much better than I had hoped because it's so lush and so beautifully executed. Votes: 0

During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem would go away. Votes: 0

250,000 species of plants and animals recorded and deposited in museums throughout the world did not support the gradual unfolding hoped for by Darwin. Votes: 0

Then was ashamed of myself. I should be happy for what I'd been given. I hoped God hadn't noticed my lapse in appreciation. Votes: 0

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day. Votes: 0

I was hoping to get a reception like this, I'd just hoped that it would be on Thursday night instead of Tuesday night. Votes: 0

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for. Votes: 0

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet. Votes: 0

When you long you can not achieve anything when you repeatedly have to lose all that you had hoped, you gradually become still. Votes: 0

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist. Votes: 0

It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth. Votes: 0

It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past. Votes: 0

Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment. Votes: 0

She'd rather hoped for something simple, like a lined piece of notebook paper with MY EVIL PLAN written across the top, but no luck. Votes: 0

Instead of receiving the help that she had hoped for, Mr. Cain instead decided to provide her with his idea of a stimulus package. Votes: 0

She simply stood there and waited for him to show her the next move. And hoped it only involved sword fighting and not seduction. Votes: 0

She had picked up life where she had left off... and hoped that would be enough to get the universe to politely overlook her. Votes: 0

I believed we needed someone who would be able to build a team, lead and unite. I hoped that person would be Boris Johnson. Votes: 0

Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing. Votes: 0

He hurried to car and set off home, hoping he was imagining things, which he had never hoped before, because he didn't approve of imagination. Votes: 0

The world he saw was sadder than the one he hoped to find. But it wasn't near as lonesome as the one he left behind. Votes: 0

Sometimes love means not being able to bear seeing the one you love the way they are, when they're not what you hoped for them. Votes: 0

Lillian shut her eyes briefly, as if she hoped when she opened them she would behold a world in which people never said ridiculous things. Votes: 0

We'd hoped for love of a different kind, love that knew and forgave our human frailty but did not miniaturize our grander ideas of ourselves. Votes: 0

I thought about the cameras following me in the terminal and pictured my family watching my entrance on TV. I hoped they’d be proud. Votes: 0

When I run into disappointment - say, for example, not getting a role I'd hoped for - I just try not to take it personally. Votes: 0

Today, she had yielded the sovereignty of her country to Eugenides, who had given up everything he had ever hoped for, to be her King. Votes: 0

For years, the West supported Mubarak and gave aid for what it hoped was stability - but was actually stagnation - in the Middle East. Votes: 0

Est autem fides sperandarum substantia rerum, argumentum non apparentium. – Faith is the hypostasis of things hoped for; the proof of things not seen. Votes: 0

I remember the way we parted, The day and the way we met; You hoped we were both broken-hearted And knew we should both forget. Votes: 0

We had hoped to have been bringing you Arthur the Human Chameleon, but this afternoon, he crawled across a tartan rug and died of exhaustion. Votes: 0

. . . she dreamed of nothing, for she hoped for nothing and expected nothing. It was as cold and dark inside her as out in the frosty night. Votes: 0

I always hoped that I would settle down with someone. Marriage, I could really give two shits about, as an institution, but it makes things easier. Votes: 0

He was as obsequious as a Japanese ivy plant. Wringing his hands as if he hoped to squeeze the milk of human kindness from his fingernails, ... Votes: 0

One thing I had hoped [Barack] Obama would be is a good cheerleader for the country. He's really brought the opposite in spirit to the country. Votes: 0

Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Votes: 0

I hoped and prayed that they would someday forgive me for leaving them. I hoped and prayed that I would someday forgive myself for leaving them. Votes: 0

...once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding. Votes: 0

I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing. Votes: 0

And taking care of somebody else made me feel good. Like discovering you're more than you thought you were. More even than you hoped to be. Votes: 0

Twitter is growing up, expanding into other countries, and recognizing that the Internet is contrary to what people hoped; the government does reach into the Internet. Votes: 0

From the warmth of her fondness for her horse she constructed a fragile and changeable thing that almost resembled courage. She hoped it would be enough. Votes: 0

Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me. Votes: 0

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. Votes: 0

Melbourne, I always knew you'd need to learn about this kind of thing. I 'd just kind of hoped you'd learn it on a real guy. Votes: 0

I never thought that Spider-Man would become the world wide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I'd keep my job. Votes: 0

Today is the tomorrow you were optimistic about yesterday. What are you doing today to make tomorrow as rewarding as you had hoped today would be? Votes: 0

I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored. Votes: 0

Almost all photographers have incurred large expenses in the pursuit of tiny audiences, finding that the wonder they'd hoped to share is something few want to receive. Votes: 0

There are all kinds of futures. There is a hoped-for future, there is a feared future, there is a predictable future, and there is an unimagined future. Votes: 0

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do Votes: 0

In Lilly's eyes her beautiful clear water eyes there is what I have sought and never found, wanted and never had, hoped for and never discovered. Love. Votes: 0

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do. Votes: 0

Most aspects of my training didn't agree with me. There wasn't as much bossing around as I'd hoped for, and there was way too much following orders. Votes: 0

I hoped Claire would have a girl. A nephew would be fun until he got his first erection and then he'd be like the rest of them. Votes: 0

Marriage was a goal. A family, for me as a young girl, was my image of what I hoped for. It was part of the big picture. Votes: 0

I'd always hoped that when i said 'I Love You' to a girl, she'd say 'I Know' like Leia did to Han in Return Of The Jedi Votes: 0

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for Votes: 0

I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now. Votes: 0

In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out. Votes: 0

You can feel good about failure. Failure means you did something. You finished the story even if it wasn't what you'd hoped. Failure means you're learning. Growing. Doing. Votes: 0

Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it. Votes: 0

Strong faith in the Savior is submissively accepting of His will and timing in our lives, even if the outcome is not what we hoped for or wanted. Votes: 0

Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods. Votes: 0

Clary stopped dead in her tracks. "Simon?" "Oh, God," said Jace, sounding resigned. "And here I'd actually hoped I'd got hold of something interesting." -Clary and Jace pg. 114 Votes: 0

Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasn't visible beneath her fitted bodice. Votes: 0

I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong. Votes: 0

On second thought she hoped she never met a woman that attractive.. If she did, she would be morally obligated to run her over with her car.." Bride Votes: 0

He scarcely knew who was battling whom, who was winning, who was losing, as though he hoped that by doggedly ignoring the war it would return the favor Votes: 0

All of us ambitious young writers hoped to have a cover story in Esquire, of course. The idea was to write the best, most entertaining article that you can. Votes: 0

I hoped you would consider it seriously instead of laughing at it.' 'Mr. Chamkanni said much the same thing in bed the first night home from the hospital Votes: 0

History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing. Votes: 0

In fact, he sorely hoped that it would happen, because otherwise, the world made no sense, there was no justice, and life was just a tangled ball of chaos. Votes: 0

She hoped he was running to his red deer woman, and that when he tapped on the door of her heart, she'd open it wide and let him in. Votes: 0

John was still making comments regarding violent things that he shouldn't, but I hoped he was just being a big mouth. Nobody was going to listen to me anyway. Votes: 0

Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for. Votes: 0

In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one hoped nor as badly as one feared. Votes: 0

I hoped our lives would continue this way forever, but inevitably the past came knocking. Not the good kind that was collectible but the bad kind that had arthritis. Votes: 0

I had to wrestle daily with both my inadequacy and my uncontrollable jealousy. I didn't want to kill her, but hoped someone else might do the job for me. Votes: 0

Do I really have moves like Jagger? F**king A, no, I don’t. But I was going to tell everybody that I did and hoped they believed me. Votes: 0

But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it. Votes: 0

Life was what happened when all the what-if's didn't, when what you dreamed or hoped or "“ in this case "“ feared might come to pass passed by instead. Votes: 0

We will not be recasting J.J. Murphy. He was a lovely man, and the best Denys Mallister we could have hoped for. And now his watch is ended. Votes: 0

A small part of her secretly hoped she caught him in bed. But that really was a very small part. The bigger part hoped he was in the shower. Votes: 0

I didn't try to think what my audience wanted and then make the music accordingly. I made the music and hoped that as many people liked it as possible. Votes: 0

I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them. Votes: 0

my mother hoped that i would die etcetera bravely of course my father used to become hoarse talking about how it was a privilege and if only he could Votes: 0

I was going as soon as the ball hit the bat, it was lucky that it was a chopper. I just ran and hoped to God I was safe. Votes: 0

He[ Italo Calvino] always said it would be impossible to try to make films out of his books, though he hoped it would happen because that's where the money was. Votes: 0

It's always been really important for me to try to maintain a balanced life, professional and personal, and this was absolutely something that my husband and I had hoped for. Votes: 0

We certainly hoped perestroika would win out and that there would be changes. We knew all along that socialism could flourish only with a certain amount of freedom and democracy. Votes: 0

Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style Votes: 0

Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style. Votes: 0

We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think. Votes: 0

To be friends is a beautiful thing, Tessa, and I do not scorn it, but I have hoped for a long time now that we might be more than friends. Votes: 0

... tried praying for him ...but I couldn't. I just couldn't. Don't ask me why. I hoped that he was okay, but I couldn't summon the strength to pray for it. Votes: 0

I unfolded the note, and it took me a few seconds to decipher Adrian's writing. If he did write me a dating proposal, I really hoped he would type it. Votes: 0

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss. Votes: 0

If you think with enough energy about a hoped-for event, it will in the end happen. Not because you willed it. Because it was all the time in your nature. Votes: 0

The washing-up was so dismally real that Bilbo was forced to believe the party of the night before had not been part of his bad dreams, as he had rather hoped. Votes: 0

Trump said that he hoped bin Laden suffered a lot. It looks like he got his wish, because the CIA said bin Laden spent his last hour watching 'Celebrity Apprentice.' Votes: 0

America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future. Instead, he has written his past. Votes: 0

Whenever we have seen a crevice in the crust of convention, we have called attention to it, because we have hoped for a force underneath, which will someday come to light. Votes: 0

Play along, the wink said. I'll get you out of this. At least Artemis hoped this was what his wink communicated and not something like 'Any chance of another kiss later? Votes: 0

Catherine thought Simon was in the locket, and in heaven, and with them still. Lucas hoped she didn't expect him to be happy about having so many Simons to contend with. Votes: 0

We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water. Votes: 0

I just dreamed about living in Paris and being French. I always loved the visual arts, film and theatre, and I hoped to be involved in creating beautiful products and images. Votes: 0

Cause there was a time when all I did was wish You'd tell me this was love. It's not the way I hoped Or how I planned But somehow it's enough. Votes: 0

We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me. Votes: 0

The washing-up was so dismally real that Bilbo was forced to believe the party of the night before had not been part of his bad dreams, as he had rather hoped." Votes: 0

I believe my friends and neighbors there are misguided. I think they are not going to get what they hoped for. But they feel betrayed by the Democratic and Republican establishment. Votes: 0

I hoped that my weary pilgrimage in the world would be short; and that it would not be long before I should be brought to my heavenly home and Father's house. Votes: 0

Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward. Votes: 0

They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove. Votes: 0

I certainly hoped that in the Eastern part of Germany, what was just beginning to be called the German Democratic Republic, you would develop a system of socialism with freedom and democracy. Votes: 0

I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year. Votes: 0

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. Votes: 0

Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She only hoped to inspire young people to achieve great things. Votes: 0

Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain. Votes: 0

[My work] is designed to speak for itself. as mementos of the fearful struggle through which the country has just passed, it is confidently hoped that it will possess an enduring interest. Votes: 0

I had hoped all of Congress would recognize that it is imperative for our health, economy, and national security that we address the effects of climate change before they get even worse. Votes: 0

My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope that journalism would be a creative, thrilling environment. Votes: 0

I have always hoped that it might be possible to conclude my ministry as I had begun it, as a parish priest, and this I believe to be the call of God. Votes: 0

I had hoped, at my departure, I would feel sure and knowledgeable about everything that lay ahead -- after all, I had been "analyzed." Instead, all I could see were question marks. Votes: 0

I have always hoped that it might be possible to conclude my ministry as I had begun it, as a parish priest, and this I believe to be the call of God. Votes: 0

We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein. Votes: 0

I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year. Votes: 0

Go out there and do your part to change the world. You may not change all you had hoped but the world will be better for the caring demonstrated by your effort. Votes: 0

I'd love to make a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' The film didn't do as well at the box office as we all hoped, but it has endured and generated a following. Votes: 0

I had hoped that the rest of the world would stand still while I got myself together again, but Chaos and Tragedy had marched into other lives close to mine as well. Votes: 0

she's the only thing that's made my life worth living and if that's all I get, a few months with her- a few days, it's more than I've ever hoped for (Luke) Votes: 0

I'd love to make a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' The film didn't do as well at the box office as we all hoped, but it has endured and generated a following. Votes: 0

And you asked why people always expected you to smile in photographs. And I told you it was because they hoped that in the future, there would be something to smile about. Votes: 0

And you asked why people always expected you to smile in photographs. And I told you it was because they hoped that in the future, there would be something to smile about Votes: 0

So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove. Votes: 0

We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings. Votes: 0

They've got to deliver twenty-six episodes a season and they're not going to beat their heads up against a wall if they feel something didn't, like, pan out the way they had hoped. Votes: 0

They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't have known how to explain why. Here lay the great discrepancy between aesthetic truth and sleazy reality. Votes: 0

Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because"”like all real love stories"”it will die with us, as it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me. Votes: 0

I dreamed about these moments, and I think I hoped I would have them, but you don't know. So when the lucky break hits, it's like being Cinderella and hopefully midnight doesn't come. Votes: 0

I don't have a car." His eyes sliced into mine. "I walked here," I explained. "I'm on foot." "Angel," he said in a way that sounded like he sincerely hoped I was joking. Votes: 0

I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset. Votes: 0

When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years. Votes: 0

The skanky vamp biting for bucks on the dark end of state street is your ex boyfriend?" William asked. The look on William's face implied he hoped I washed after interacting with Parrish Votes: 0

I had hoped to hear the President tonight tell the Congress and the American people exactly how he plans to tackle some of the important issues facing this country, unfortunately I did not. Votes: 0

The evil lot who did that thing on September 11 did it because they wanted to create a war between America and Islam. And by invading Iraq, we gave them what they hoped for. Votes: 0

What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that that is the attitude with which you should go into these things. Votes: 0

You have just got to face the facts, don't you? I face it head-on. I knew what I was coming in to. I didn't make the impact I hoped for and I believed in. Votes: 0

My heart was a little bit broken, but I still had to go to school. I buttoned my dress shirt over it and my winter coat, too. I hoped it didn't show too much. Votes: 0

The wonder is not that some married people are less happy than they hoped to be, but that any married people, out of the honeymoon, or even in it, are ever happy at all. Votes: 0

I'm a huge romantic comedy fan and have been in this business for 17 years and I think for all 17 I'd hoped and dreamed and wished to some day be in a romantic comedy myself. Votes: 0

Back in 2003, when I was home secretary, I introduced the victim surcharge on offenders to substantially expand the support available and, I hoped, the protection of witnesses who were brave enough to come forward. Votes: 0

I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way. Votes: 0

Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest. Votes: 0

Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses. Votes: 0

Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses Votes: 0

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy. Votes: 0

Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me. Votes: 0

If the police believed that they were planning any form of resistance against the state, then you were just gone. Nobody knew where you were, and you just hoped to see that family member again. Votes: 0

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church. Votes: 0

Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we'd never hoped for! Votes: 0

Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having. Votes: 0

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things. Votes: 0

The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live. Votes: 0

Delicious... Everything I'd hoped for in a new Wild Cards book. The character interactions and plot twists have exactly the complexity, surprise, and unsentimental realism I'd expect out of a George R. R. Martin project. Votes: 0