We Hoped Quotes
25 quotes by 22 authors
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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it…
— Marcel Proust
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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…
— Mike Easley
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Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped…
— George H. W. Bush
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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…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When we renounce our dreams, we find peace and enjoy a brief period of tranquillity, but the dead dreams begin to rot inside us and…
— Paulo Coelho
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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…
— Abraham Lincoln
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If aliens from outer space ever come and we show them our civilization and they make fun of it, we should say we were just…
— Jack Handey
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Now in the light of past and present events the bitter truth must be spoken. We feared too little and we hoped too much. We…
— Chaim Weizmann
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The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. We hoped for…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The biggest breakthrough in the next 50 years will be the discovery of extraterrestrial life. We have been searching for it for 50 years and…
— Freeman Dyson
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We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.
— Jerome Cavanagh
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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…
— David A. Bednar
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What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world.
— Ken Kesey
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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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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…
— will.i.am
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The thing to remember about love affairs," says Simone, "is that they are all like having raccoons in your chimney." ... We have raccoons sometimes…
— Lorrie Moore
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The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest. Each of us had a first sentence, and most of us found the strength to…
— David Levithan
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Spoken forgiveness, no matter how heartfelt, works best when we do not demand the response we want. I mean that when we tell people we…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century. We've talked about it before and speculated about it, and…
— John Glenn
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Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while were here we should dance...
— Alfaaz
Who Wrote These We Hoped Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 25 We Hoped Quotes as follows: