#hoped

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#between #day #disappointing #fear #feeling

I had hoped to hear the President tonight tell the Congress and the American people exactly how he plans to tackle some of the important issues facing this country, unfortunately I did not. ↗

— Frank Lautenberg

#american people #congress #country #did #exactly

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

— Lotte Lehmann

#had #hoped #i #please #protest

The U.S. Forces are winning in Iraq. It is to be hoped that they will win at home also. ↗

— John Linder

#forces #home #hoped #iraq #will

Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we'd never hoped for! ↗

— James MacArthur

#completed #episode #five-o #good #had

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

— James Madison

#folly #hoped #much #progress #reason

I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion. ↗

— Patrick Marber

#couple #dramatic #elegant #emotion #every

I had hoped God would be neutral. ↗

— Darrell Royal

#had #hoped #i #neutral #would

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many. ↗

— James McGreevey

#american politics #benighted #career #closet #compromises

It's always been really important for me to try to maintain a balanced life, professional and personal, and this was absolutely something that my husband and I had hoped for. ↗

— Debra Messing

#always #balanced #been #had #hoped