My life/career is more filled with left-field thrills than I could ever have hoped for.

- Michael Cerveris

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

- William Hague

I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now.

- will.i.am

The most important thing, in anything you do, is always trying your hardest, because even if you try your hardest and it's not as good as you'd hoped, you still have that sense of not letting yourself down.

- Tom Holland

Jerry and I hoped that it would be a popular bestseller.

- Tim LaHaye

Being an action star is all I had ever hoped to be. I ultimately knew I would be an action star.

- Steve Carell

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

- Richard Grant

As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.

- Rickie Lee Jones

My mother hoped I'd be a plumber.

- Richard Flanagan

I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.

- Om Puri

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

- Christopher Reeve

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

- Lillian Hellman

For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.

- Kevin Spacey

When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was - and that my real parents were going to come get me.

- Gloria Steinem

My recovery, though slower than hoped for, is nevertheless assured.

- Frederick William Borden

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

- Douglas Adams

I had hoped God would be neutral.

- Darrell Royal

I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.

- Charlotte Gainsbourg

I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.

- Catherine Deneuve