#hop

I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars. ↗

— James Gunn

#expedition #hope #i #mars #off

I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#bishop #elizabeth #francisco #i #imprisoned

There's a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me. ↗

— Lusia Strus

#comfortable #go #grocery #grocery shopping #having

So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#causes #damaged #did #discovering #function

Our fumbling government's response since Beirut - during both Republican and Democratic administrations - has been to cut and run, or to flat ignore this growing threat, apparently hoping it would go away. ↗

— David Hackworth

#away #been #beirut #both #cut

I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#away #become #being #come #decide

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way. ↗

— Edward F. Halifax

#generally #good #good company #guide #hope

There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#come #conservatory #different #different parts #england

At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity. ↗

— William Hague

#east #every #government #hope #human

We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end. ↗

— William Hague

#darkness #end #hope #lived #long