The war in Iraq clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.

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

Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology but still in the old style.

I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

I hoped I could make people smile and laugh and have a good time.

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.

I have an orthopedic pillow that's made out of a sponge material. I have a plate in my throat and I have to be careful or I could end up with a bad neck in the morning. That pillow is a must everywhere I go.

I decided very early on just to accept life unconditionally I never expected it to do anything special for me yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

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.