Hoped Quotes

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.

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

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

I hoped the chemistry was going to be there. There were six leading actors, and I wanted them all to mesh. I didn't know how they were going to relate. But a lot of them came out of a certain Hollywood generation, so they all knew each other and it was like a reunion. When I felt that click, I breathed a sigh of relief.

less than we had hoped for.

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.

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.

We hoped it would be an oasis in the desert.

This result is more than we dared hoped for. We knew the new Focus RS WRC would be good but we couldn't forecast that we would conquer one of the toughest rallies in the championship on our first full competitive event with a new car and driver line-up.

Me watching them and them watching me is kind of nerve-wracking. We all hoped we'd come out on top, but now we've got to take care of the next step.

I am saddened to have to report that, following emergency surgery that we had hoped would correct a sudden deterioration in her condition, my niece Susan Ann Catherine Torres has passed away after only five short weeks with us.

He said all of America sat and hoped, as they watched Ryder trucks going down the road bringing the ballots, that O.J. had murdered me, ... And that hit very hard.

We had hoped for a victory. We knew there was some opposition, but it was spread out. We were definitely surprised by the difference of those being in favor of us once the final vote was tallied.

You always hoped that eventually the ability that he had would show itself. For a while it's overwhelming, but he maybe has something that isn't immediately recognized. There's an inner toughness about him, a resolve or resiliency that maybe you aren't immediately made aware of that allowed him to get through some of the tough times.

Arthur Miller had hoped it would premiere in London and was so pleased the possibility was in the air that it would come to the Old Vic because he loved this theater. We want to see that particular dream of Miller's come true.

I?m a little disheartened to learn about it via press release. I would have hoped they would have called us to discuss it.

We hoped we'd be further along. It's a little frustrating. We were hoping at some point to turn the corner. You never know.

It's hoped that these essays will be discussed in classrooms, in dining halls, among friends, among those drawn together simply by a quest for greater understanding. And it's hoped that they'll be a catalyst for further reflection and dialogue in everyday interactions both on the campus and within the broader community.

It's not good news. Both sides of it -- productivity not as strong as we hoped for and labor costs finally starting to show some of that pressure we all thought was out there. For so long, we would sort of breathe a sigh of relief, but this tells us there's a lot of wage pressure in that tight market.

It's kind of a blur. I hoped we could maybe play it over. Maybe I could back into her, push her down -- I don't know -- do something different.

My dream was that I hoped one day I would be able to give back what people gave to me. Well now I can afford to do this and I'm trying to give back to a lot of other kids.

I had just prayed and hoped, and I seen the boss coming in with the trucks and trailers. We had only had communication with the police--we lost our cell phones and other phones the first night.

However, there was also a large group of investors that hoped that the company might decide to sell, instead of hiring a new CEO.

Today we initially hoped that stocks would rise and erase yesterday's losses, but Wall Street triggered a new wave of profit-taking.

That's practically business as usual. Given Michigan's recession and Detroit's past budget difficulties, it's not what I'd hoped for. But there does seem to be some restraint here, and that's a silver lining. Thirty-five million is a tiny increase in regards to the budget.