#hoped

What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for. ↗

— John Russell

#beautiful #beings #better #come #exactly

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#been #did #had #having #hoped

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church. ↗

— Charles Williams

#comments #day #divine #does #foundation

We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#american #dialogue #diplomacy #hoped #international

I had hoped that the board would accept Johnny Hon's offer of a loan to buy the stadium back for the club, as I think this would be best way of continuing the long tradition of Cambridge United in Cambridge - and it was a generous offer. ↗

— Anne Campbell

#back #best #best way #board #buy

We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough. ↗

— Jerome Cavanagh

#been #doing #enough #had #hope

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#concealed #detain #fastened #filled #first

You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings. ↗

— Richard Grant

#discrepancy #hoped #imagined #look #reality

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

— Dave Grohl

#had #hoped #i #really #seattle

To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope. ↗

— Jack Layton

#cancer #defeat #discouraged #gone #had