Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to.
I had to wrestle daily with both my inadequacy and my uncontrollable jealousy. I didn't want to kill her, but hoped someone else might do the job for me.
I hoped there would be a better process. But it is final -- I will not participate.
I think, first of all, I'm very proud of Sam Saunders in general. I am happy to see him playing well and his performance has been good. He is coming on as I hoped he would at this stage of his life. He is a fine young man as well as a fine golfer. He is doing things the right way.
But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
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 commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.
That’s how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something we’d like to think we’ve grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It’s something you’d hoped was healed.
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 hoped for the rest of the year.
I hoped Lissa remained the only one with a surprise sibling.
As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one hoped nor as badly as one feared.
Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses
Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.
I always had the dream that, once I became No 1 in the world, that if I had a child I hoped I would have it early enough so the child can see me playing.
I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.
A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be.
I know that so many of us hoped that, by electing our first black president, we had turned the page on this chapter in our history. But, despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.
It just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for.
My lifecareer is more filled with left-field thrills than I could ever have hoped for.