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He who has never hoped can never despair.

George Bernard Shaw

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.

Douglas Adams

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

Epicurus

I'm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

That's what we hoped these plans would do...It's another indication that shows we're heading in the right direction.

John Goulter

NBC has to be a bit disappointed with numbers for Martha Stewart. They probably hoped it would do a bit better.

Bill Carroll

She had hoped to go to both countries. ... They are not facilitating her travel to the boundary region in Eritrea so she's not going.

Julie Reside

We got a check last week from a doctor in Oakland. He said he hoped that it would help in some way. It's kind of amazing.

Jack Burke

It was certainly a good quarter, way better than expectations, but futures orders were less than we had hoped for. With that said, I don't think the model is broken.

Jamelah Leddy

We just hoped for a better-than-dismal turnout.

Ralph Mervine

I was overbearing. I just hoped he would come to love basketball or find something like it that he could love just as much.

Chris Nichols

We've come through. This is the revolution I'd hoped for all along.

Larry Harvey

It's been as good as we could have hoped for. These guys look like they've played together.

John Mirabello

We hoped it would turn out this way, but we really weren't expecting it to. I've cried quite a bit on and off, but today's tears were tears of joy.

Dwight Landry

This is better than we could've all hoped for.

Mark Sneve

The outlook is worse than we had hoped.

Christian Maher

It's a dream we've hoped for since the beginning of the year.

Fernando Gauna

We hoped to get it down to six by halftime, but I was very pleased with the way we came back especially for this team, which has very little playoff experience.

Scott Slayton

We'd certainly hoped not to see it in Africa.

Michael Perdue

Primetime has not been as strong as we'd hoped.

Doug Brooks

Quality was not as high as we would have hoped. Company operated margins were lower than we were expecting.

Larry Miller

For some reason OTs haven't treated us as well as we hoped.

Taylor Vichorek

I believe that the deal we got is better than we could have hoped for. Our membership should be very happy with this agreement.

William Daniels

I'm just elated. I hoped, but I didn't think I'd really be able to do that.

Aaron Peirsol

We hoped to have another win or two, but the team played well despite a few untimely penalties. We gave up five goals due to penalties.

Jason Tapp

We worried and we hoped constantly. We never gave up hope.

Peter Bienert

There are no answers in it. Everyone finds their own truth. At the end, the answers are yours, ... That's what we hoped to do: cast bread on the water and let people feed off it.

Ward Powers

Just about everything he hoped to see has been accomplished over the years.

Wayne Dreggors

We did not play as well as I had hoped. But the competition was strong and we know what we have to do to get back to our early season form.

Lloyd Hulit

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

Dave Grohl

I remember with Baltimore, you hoped you either don't get the trip to Jupiter or it's cloudy. I couldn't see a thing out there.

Larry Bigbie

It was good to know it wasn't a serious injury and it was only a week, which is what we hoped for.

Michael Hagan

It was hoped political attitudes would change, but this was likely to take some time.

John Carlson

I am glad that Ali's decided to ante up. I hoped he would.

David Norden

I'd hoped to be at the next (supervisors) meeting before then to thank everyone, but that probably won't happen now.

Dan Bowling

We had hoped Dwayne would make it for Wasps but in the end he is another two weeks away from being fit.

Nigel Davies

There were a lot of people who thought we'd never get to this day. There were a lot of people who hoped we'd never get to this day.

Donald Williams

That was a great effort from our kids in the second half. We hoped our pressure would finally break them and I think it did.

Hugh Godsey

Now faith is the substance of things hoped' for, the evidence of things not seen.

Bible

I had always hoped to be able to play. I've always thought it would be really fun to be a D1 athlete and I'm really glad to get the opportunity.

Sarah Pedersen

It wasn't what I would've hoped, but we did make progress. I wouldn't say we're any closer to a deal, but we found new areas to explore.

Connie Slayback

He's always hoped I would have one. I never have.

Cokie Roberts

We predicted and hoped for a race for the ages. And we got one that will never be forgotten by those who saw it.

Mary Wittenberg

It exceeded our expectations and went almost into the dream category. It was so much better than we could have even hoped for.

Steve Long

I prefer open space, ... We always hoped that it would stay that way.

Diane Williams

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.

Louis Bar

This is the worst-case scenario of what we hoped wouldn't happen.

Warren Bielenberg

I have fewer friends than people say, and more than I had hoped, ... I am very fortunate.

Carlos Salinas

Now it's all in our hands. Everything has fallen into place for us, like we hoped. Now we just have to win games.

Tim Chambers

We didn't get a signal at 8:30 p.m. We hoped we would.

Richard Cook

I hoped they learned from playing in the pennant race, from coming back from where we did. They learned the little things you have to do to win.

Ivan Dejesus

I think every law enforcement officer in Sedgwick County hoped to be the one with the magic bullet.

Randy Stone

He was an amazing player in high school. We always hoped we'd win the coin toss so we could see our offense go on the field first and see what he was going to do.

Ndukwe Kalu

That's a big 2-3 zone to be looking at. We'd never done it. Not even in practice. It went as well as we hoped.

Ben Maynard

We had wonderful crowds and they were larger than we could have hoped for.

George Burger

Her ankle is not responding like we had hoped.

Wayne Shelton

The goal at the beginning of the season was to be one of the top five teams. That there is only one team that is better than us in the final tally is much more than we could have hoped for.

John Lelangue

We would have hoped for there to be a willingness to calm things down.

Fouad Alaoui

It was a 50-50 ball that came off the keeper, ... I saw it and went all out for it, and just hoped it would go in.

Chris Patterson

It did everything we hoped it would do. It was very positive, it outlined for us the things that we have a potential to be very good at and some of the things that we're not so strong at yet.

Dana Eikenberg

We're very pleased with the way things are going. This has been everything we had hoped it would be.

Mike Dee

We've had a nice holiday season, just not as nice a season as we've had in the past or as I'd hoped for.

Patrick Byrne

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

Bonnie Raitt

I'd hoped we'd get proposals, and I hope we'll get something in three to four weeks.

Arthur Murphy

That's what we hoped to do - jump out on them and then hang on. I guess it worked.

Kelly Clark

It's not quite the crowd we had hoped for but everyone seems to be enjoying themselves.

Florence Paterno

They're pretty much cutting back on models that haven't done as well as hoped.

Guido Vildozo

Everything unfolded the way we thought it would and the way we hoped it would. This was a home run.

Todd Pletcher

It was the best news I could have hoped for. Receiving the Fulbright-Hays has allowed me to pursue a career in anthropology and experience things most people never have a chance to.

Angela Martin

As good a partner as anyone would have hoped for.

James Dimon

He's young and raw. He's got great hands. He came in and did everything we hoped he'd be able to do. He provided us with some fresh legs, which is why we decided to use him.

Adam Mueller

They're encouraged. Some of them felt they did not wrestle as they hoped, but they're working hard.

Dan Roton

I would say that this is definitely consolidation. I was very pleased with the productivity numbers and had hoped for a follow through today.

Lex Werkheim

Were in Japan the year before, and he had always had [sic] hoped there would be an earthquake that he could feel, and there wasn't any. And here was the big Long Beach earthquake, and they didn't feel it!

Gutenberg

I couldn't have hoped for anything better. This has been a true blessing to have all these students here and have everyone co-operating.

Christine Mitchell

We controlled our own destiny this year, and things didn't work out the way we had hoped for. We're coming down here with a good attitude.

Tony Brinkhaus

It was more than I had hoped for.

Sue Meyer

I said that in my box of dreams, I hoped that some day they would be exonerated.

Clemens Work

We hoped to file it today, but we want it to be accurate. Our anticipation is we will file an accurate report tomorrow.

Jim Farrell

The meeting was more formal than what we'd hoped for. This is a busy time of year for everybody, and there needs to be some flexibility.

Lisa Hurd

Buffett told the students that at age 75, he tap dances to work everyday. He hoped students had a job where they felt the same about going to work.

Angeline Lavin

The good news is we got 30 free throws. We hoped to do that by using our height advantage and we did. The bad news is we made only 14.

Frank Rossi

We hoped it would be an oasis in the desert.

Josefina Campuzano

I hoped he'd get up with the ball and be all right. That says a lot when you make a play like that.

Fred Ray

We could have been sleeping on park benches now but fortunately everything turned out well, much better than we had ever hoped."

Barry Gibb

We had hoped to hear something this week.

Diane Altland

Some days the fielding is not going to be what you hoped it would be. But you got to battle through it and make pitches.

John Lalor

Our back-to school-season was not as robust as we hoped.

Brad Anderson

The Braves were very good to me, and I hoped to stay. But it's business. I hoped the Braves would match the offers.

Rafael Furcal

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.

Kory Bays

We did a good job on the big guy and kept him out of the game. We fronted and backed him and hoped they didn't hit the threes. If they hit the threes, we would have had to change the strategy.

Terry Goodson

There's been a lot of things that have been thrown at him this year. We haven't been as successful as we had hoped, but he's handled a lot of things well.

Jim Stack

He was just a man on a mission. You just always hoped the inning would last so he could have a chance to win it.

John Brennan

This allows us to continue work on phase II and continue the stadium in a manner we all hoped we would be able to.

Frank Duross

It's not as busy as I had hoped, but then every festival goes through tough times.

Bob Gould

I thought it was a good day, but we had hoped for a better day.

Thomas Yeager

It's kind of what we hoped and envisioned it could grow into.

Buddy Guillory

We had hoped to be able to make enough films to be able to rationalize the cost of being our own distributor. Sadly, we were never able to make enough films to make that economically sound.

David Geffen

You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

Jim Bakker

I did think he would make a big run today. He's been a really honest horse. We've always hoped he would develop.

Beau Greely

Today we got everything we could have hoped for.

Jim Saxton

Community support isn't wavering at all. It is our history. But we had hoped to be a bit further along than this.

Bev Dolan

I hoped that students would emotionally connect to the people and problems they saw around them and want to do something about it.

David Ives

Phase one has proven to work exactly as we had hoped it would.

Jim Lowe

We've been blessed because of the weather before. At least we got what we hoped for, at least four games against good competition.

Jodie King

I had hoped to be here in the capacity of town attorney, but I am here as a town citizen.

Dennis Curtin

I hoped that academy voters weren't swayed by the dogma that was being thrown around. Fortunately, they weren't.

Michael Chiklis

It's indescribable. It's exactly like you hoped it's going to be.

Colin Flynn

We hoped there came more Japanese airplanes, ... then we can shoot more down. But it never happened.

John Rossi

He's had bronchitis all week long and had hoped it would get better, but it didn't, ... All tickets will be honored next week.

Carol Stone

Yeah, I did what I hoped, what I potentially expected from the year.

Danica Patrick

I hoped that people would think it was a good idea and would come on board. And they did, in much greater numbers than I could ever dream of.

Ron Schaeffer

While Intel's news wasn't bad, it wasn't as bullish as some had hoped.

Todd Salamone

This is better than I even hoped for.

Tim Neece

There's always been talk about communication. I actually had hoped that we were going to work on the communication, because he had been talking about it.

Ned Carey

We, of course, had hoped for more years because of the children in the house.

Lorrain Croy

It's phenomenal. It's what we had hoped for, but we often hope for the best possible scenario. You don't often get it, but in this case we got it.

Robert Dowling

To be four games in at 3-1 is about as good as we could have hoped for.

Aaron Finch

They have 13 flights a day and had 60 before the storm. They haven't come back as much as we hoped or expected.

Michelle Duffourc

The process hadn't been as an easy as we had hoped, so we're looking at streamlining it further.

Jayme Kunz

Lots of things were going through my mind. I just hoped, I just hoped that he'd come up.

Justin Rowntree

That's what I hoped for. It was nice to see it, particularly on their court.

Regina Miller

It's exceeded my expectations, in every way, really. The people are nicer than I imagined they could have been. They were more supportive of me than I hoped they would be.

Rick Schroder

That kind of technique, which was used a lot during the early days of ESPN2, really didn't work the way we hoped.

Burke Magnus

We're going to weigh all of that public opinion. We had hoped all along the casino can be a good neighbor.

Anne Swager

I had hoped to visit all the schools in San Diego, but I didn't quite make it. Eventually, I hope to get to know every employee here.

Leslie Fausset

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

Lotte Lehmann

It didn't work as well as we hoped it would.

Al Gaiss

I just closed my eyes and hoped it was a dream.

Logan Hawley

This was probably our most complete game since the Christmas tournament. Everything went the way we hoped it would.

Brad Hemphill

I would say we didn't get the data we had hoped to have, ... The question of whether it's an absolute need or not is one that the secretary (of defense) and the president will be deciding.

Jacques Gansler

The year 2006 is not going to be the year we had hoped it to be last year.

Andrew Steer

Realistically, I think we accomplished what we hoped to do. He is [now] a convicted felon, his business is shut down and he's going to be locked up.

Caroline Shepherd

That was the best start we could have hoped for.

Mike Eaves

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.

Joey Gathright

We executed our game plan defensively, as far as I'm concerned, to a T. I had hoped that we could score 40 points on them.

Heidi Deery

It's hoped that competition will bring premiums down as more insurers enter the field.

Kevin Carr

When you go out like that at home, it hurts. I had hoped to see a lot more effort today.

Gary Apodaca

We're not seeing the returns that we had hoped to.

Phil Brady

Everyone has bought BP for its U.S. exposure. It's delivered on that to an extent, but not as much as people had hoped, and now the U.S. environment is easing; refining margins are coming back, gas prices are easing off.

Jon Wright

Some of it is because things haven't worked out as well as we hoped.

Sallie Krawcheck

Athletically and academically, it has been a great experience to come to LMU. To get a top education and be a part of a special team has been terrific ... I could not have hoped for anything better.

Mike Wojnarowicz

I just shut my eyes, hit it and hoped! [on scoring his first goal for Man United since Nov '03 in Feb '05].

Roy Keane

I had hoped that we would be six points ahead of Stenhousemuir before we meet them next.

John Coughlin

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles Ii

The operation has proved more difficult than hoped but it is proceeding in a focused and orderly fashion.

Georg Grabner

I'm speechless - it's better than we had hoped.

Marla Miller

I hoped my freshman year would go like it has, but it's been better than I ever dreamed of. I'm just excited.

Courtney Paris

I had hoped we would never see the NHL owners and their commissioner do the unthinkable and cancel an entire NHL season.

Bob Goodenow

We hoped that we could come out and get the first and the energy would pick us up, but they kept getting the bounces.

Patrick White

We just hoped that someone would get it, would like what we could do.

Jon Heder

The policy of constructive engagement has shown some dividends but not as much as we had hoped.

Najib Razak

This is a total smoke-free bill, not a compromise that would balance the various interests I had hoped for.

Carol Schwartz

I think he's come through in as good shape as the Republicans could have hoped.

Jeffrey Segal

It's as optimal a situation as we could have hoped for here.

Alfonso Felder

I'm a little better (this year). Not as much as I hoped to be, but I am a little better.

Ali Lacey

Being 20 ahead is a whole lot more than we hoped for. Now, it's not over, but we really put ourselves in good shape to win this thing.

Bobby Dunn

This is the best we could have hoped for, I'd be lying if I said the whole thing is settled forever.

Tom Wellman

Thanks for the eight years, Charlottesville. It was everything we hoped for and more.

David Wyatt

I sincerely hoped to achieve my objectives without harming innocent civilians.

Eric Rudolph

I hoped I would win when I entered, but I didn't actually think I would win.

Zach Miller