Best Hoped Wisdom
549 Hoped quotes by 452 unique authors
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As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to that unhappily small extent…
— Simone Weil
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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.…
— Mary McCarthy
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A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he…
— Beryl Markham
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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…
— Jack Dee
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To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its…
— Thomas Sowell
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The most dangerous thing Iraq could have ever had was a nuclear weapon. The nuclear weapon Iraq was trying to build was not deliverable by…
— Scott Ritter
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I have an unquenchable desire to slow down and find my life going deeper in my walk with Christ. I want to meet him in…
— Joseph Stowell
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The vast majority of the people who populate our planet live lives of quiet desperation that are all too often quite harsh and painful, lives…
— Frederick Lenz
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Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime-if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something…
— Jess C Scott
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I don't think any of us could have possibly anticipated how successful Mad Men has been. When we were working on the pilot, we loved…
— Elisabeth Moss
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Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how…
— Isaac Marion
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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…
— Michael Moritz
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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.
— Kris Kristofferson
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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.…
— Jim Bakker
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The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure that I was…
— Giada De Laurentiis
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Beginning writers are often advised to 'write what you know,' and since I knew about quilters - their quirks, their inside jokes, their disputes and…
— Jennifer Chiaverini
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In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment…
— Sydney Brenner
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I have to admit that 'Psychology Today' was one of the first magazines I started reading, back when I was 13 or 14, because I…
— Dan Chaon
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My life/career is more filled with left-field thrills than I could ever have hoped for.
— Michael Cerveris
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I hoped that, you know, France wouldn't mind about, you know, the wife of their president to having a job.
— Carla Bruni
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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…
— Anna Godbersen
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The annual award of $5,000 goes to an author for a meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young adults. Scott O'Dell…
— Scott O'Dell
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The most important lesson I learned...was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if…
— Wyatt Earp
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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…
— Joseph E. Johnston
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George W. Bush was a very bad president. The Iraq war was a big mistake. The U.S.A. needed a political change. I hoped Barack Obama…
— Marc Rich
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