I hoped she didn't know just how much she affected me…

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

— Anne Hathaway

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…

— Tom Rachman

“At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude…

— Gustave Flaubert

My parents prepared me for the worst, hoped for the best.

— Darci Lynne Farmer

“I hoped he was right. I’d never heard of a university refusing money.”

— Kim Harrison

“I hoped his last sensation was the euphoria. The peace. The love. I had to believe it was the love.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

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

— Lillian Hellman

“Go find someone who will care for ye good, to sit quiet by yore side at the fire, an' if he treats ye decent…

— Brian Jacques

“And now, Irewen, I will ask what you hoped for all along. I have chosen you as my Protector. Will you allow me to…

— Andi O'Connor

“He whispered: ‘Is it this? Is this possible? I’ll put a marvel to you. That your cousin has always hoped. That from the very…

— E.M. Forster

When I came out I hoped it would empower others - and it has.

— Gareth Thomas

Life has not turned out as I hoped it would.

— Gyles Brandreth

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

— Ellen Glasgow

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

— Ronnie Barker

“This dream you had wasn’t a someday dream, it was a right-now dream. You would never be happy in New York. You would never…

— Jill Santopolo