I Quotes
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“I hope, or I could not live.”
Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau: Top 100 Classic Novels
“I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.”
Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“I hope,” he replies softly, “to get to know you again. If you are open to it. There is a fog around you that I would like to clear away.”
Source: Champion: A Legend Novel
“I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.”
“I hoped and prayed that they would someday forgive me for leaving them. I hoped and prayed that I would someday forgive myself for leaving them.”
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“I hoped Claire would have a girl. A nephew would be fun until he got his first erection and then he'd be like the rest of them.”
Source: A State of Jane
“I hoped for a rose and got lilies.
I hoped for the sun and got rain.
I hoped for a cat and got puppies.
I hoped for Brazil and got Spain.
I hoped for a raise and got transferred.
I hoped for northwest and got south.
I hoped for ice cream and got yogurt.
I hoped for a kiss on the mouth.
I hoped for more time and got late fees.
I hoped for a cruise, got a flight.
I hoped for Poseidon, got Hades.
I hoped for long days over nights.
You may wonder why I keep hoping,
As fruitless as it seems to be.
But hope is a bow, not an arrow.
Its release depends much upon me.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“I hoped for love
When I look at you face to face
not even Hermioni
seems to be your equal.
I compare you to blond Helen
among mortal women.
Know that you can free me
from every care,
and stay awake all night long
on dewy riverbanks”
“I hoped for one of my people to do this. But maybe if you can, it will bond you to the land and you’ll be able to rid the white man of his crimes.”
Source: Fantastic Tales of Terror: History's Darkest Secrets
“I hoped for something else. It's a simple dream, but it speaks to us so powerfully because it is our dream - one that exists at the very center of the American experience. One that says if you're willing to work hard and take responsibility, then you'll have the chance to reach for something else; for something better.”
Source: Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House
“I hoped he'd take his dog and drive down to the ocean. I hoped there was still time. I pictured him sitting on the gray rocks with the waves crashing and spraying white foam. Maybe he'd hear something in the roar of the ocean, feel some limitless power, believe that there's something greater. Something more. Maybe his heaven was at the coast, with a dog's head in his lap, with nothing but water and depth from there to the horizon." -Delaney”
Source: Fracture
“I hoped I could make people smile and laugh and have a good time.”
“I hoped I could talk to you. Maybe you could tell me if I;m on the right track.
Track? You sound like you've come off the rails altogether.”
Source: A Life for a Life
“I hoped, I think, to recapture there a freedom I could not forget. In that spot, indeed, more than twenty years ago, I had spent whole mornings wandering among the ruins, breathing in the wormwood, warming myself against the stones, discovering little roses, soon plucked of their petals, which outlive the spring.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“I hoped I wasn't actually dead. That would make finding our parents and saving the world really hard.”
“I hoped I wasn't blushing. It was bad enough I had to depend on my mom to drive me to my battles.”
Source: The Sea of Monsters
“I hoped Lissa remained the only one with a surprise sibling.”
Source: Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel
“I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.”
“I hoped newness might knock grief clean out of me.”
Source: Arrangements in Blue
“I hoped our lives would continue this way forever, but inevitably the past came knocking. Not the good kind that was collectible but the bad kind that had arthritis.”
“I hoped she understood that I was hers, completely and undeniably, forever. That if I had all of this to do all over again, I would change everything. And that in any life, in any situation, I’d choose her. Every time.”
Source: Stealing Harper
“I hoped that Grace would be a little bit of the best of all of us: Scarlett's spirit, and my mother's strength, Marion's determination, and Michael's sly humor. I wasn't sure what I could give, not just yet. But I would know when I told her about the comet, years from now, I would know. And I would lean close to her ear, saying the words no one else could hear, explaining it all. The language of solace and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.”
Source: How to Deal
“I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.”
Source: Mistaken
“I hoped that if someone tried to feed the remote descendant of a goat to the remote descendant of a lizard for the sake of little more than a shudder of entertainment, that it would feel it was wrong. I hoped it wouldn't be too chicken to say so.”
Source: Last Chance To See
“I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.”
“I hoped that moment in time would never end, but as time goes, it unfortunately did”
Source: Baghdad: The Final Gathering
“I hoped that my weary pilgrimage in the world would be short; and that it would not be long before I should be brought to my heavenly home and Father's house.”
Source: The Works of President Edwards;: Narrative of conversions. Life and diary of the Rev. David Brainerd. Mr. Brainerd's journal. Mr. Brainerd's remains
“I hoped that the trip would be the best of all journeys: a journey into ourselves.”
Source: You Can Get There From here
“I hoped that was because someone more honest with him than I could bring myself to be told him they were rubbish.”
Source: Fangs For Nothing
“I hoped that, you know, France wouldn't mind about, you know, the wife of their president to having a job.”
“I hoped the hunter would come. I imagined him pushing through the thickets in the foothills. I've thought of him like that often since, as if he's still out there, game in his sights, intending to check on me on his return.”
Source: This Census-Taker
“I hoped there would be a better process. But it is final -- I will not participate .”
“I hoped they couldn't run very fast with those stubby little legs and flippers, but they waddled along pretty well.”
Source: Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth
“I hoped this was true. Even if it wasn‟t, all I could do was hand over what I could, with the hope of something in return. But of course, this was easier said than done.”
Source: Lock and Key
“I hoped to get instruction in Yoga, expected wonderful teachings, but what the teacher did was mainly to force me to face the darkness within myself and it almost killed me.... I was beaten down in every sense until I had to come to terms with that in me which I kept rejecting all my life.”
“I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.”
“I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.”
“I hoped what little dinner I'd eaten wasn't something my new baby-rich body didn't like. I didn't want to throw up all over the bad guys, or then again maybe I did. It would certainly be distracting.”
Source: Divine Misdemeanors
“I hoped wherever she was, she was having a shitty time, had an itch in a place she couldn't scratch.”
Source: Black Sheep
“I hoped with every ounce of my being that he would have the pleasure of knowing love and heartache in the way that I did. It might sound strange me wanting my five-year-old son to experience heartache, but without it I wouldn't have met his mother - a wonderful woman who taught me just how uncomplicated falling in love can be when it is with the right person, as well as highlighting the notion that timing is everything. If I had met her earlier in life I've no doubt that I'd have made a complete mess of the whole thing. I wouldn't have been ready to receive her love or to give the love I'd spent year accumulating.”
Source: You're the One that I Want
“I hoped you would consider it seriously instead of laughing at it.' 'Mr. Chamkanni said much the same thing in bed the first night home from the hospital”
Source: The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted
“I hoped, hoped, that maybe I'd be lucky enough to do something on Broadway, in the chorus.”
“I hoping to make it [decision] sometime next week. I love the academics at Tech. I can get a great degree there in engineering. Georgia has the ability to win it all next season. I think I can play early at both schools. It's going to be tough.”
“I horse ride. I find it is the best way to maintain my fitness and stay physical. I have to practise anyway for my equestrian front. I do dressage and schooling too. I also do physical training where I work on my neck and upper body strength. Racing is a high endurance sport and you are in the car for a long time so this area is crucial.”
“I hospitalized a rock, killed a brick...I'm so bad I make medicine sick!”
“I hosted Soul train but I listen to everything.”
“I hosted the Producer's Guild Awards, and it went well, and I was very happy in the moment, and it was a fun night. But I wake up the next day like someone who did crack the night before and told off the world, and I'm ashamed of the whole idea that anyone should listen to me, or the idea that I need that much approval.”
“I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience.”
Source: The Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatra
“I hover over the expensive Scotch and then the Armagnac, but finally settle on a glass of rich red claret. I put it near my nose and nearly pass out. It smells of old houses and aged wood and dark secrets, but also of hard, hot sunshine through ancient shutters and long, wicked afternoons in a four-poster bed. It's not a wine, it's a life, right there in the glass.”
“I, however, am as trustworthy as a Boy Scout, as loyal as a dove.”
Source: The Art of Inheriting Secrets