#hoped

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. ↗

— Jack Dee

#bible #cling #closer #commentaries #contented

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

— Catherine Deneuve

#both #children #else #expected #hoped

The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure that I was making the right decision. I think they hoped I would change my mind about culinary school. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#before #change #culinary #culinary school #decision

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. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#australia #emissions #global #hoped #i

As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million. ↗

— George Wald

#as far as #attack #conservative #estimates #everything

I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled. ↗

— Sigourney Weaver

#dream #father #fulfilled #had #hard

We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

#good #home #hoped #sounded #us

I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#authors #been #certain #corners #explored

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#contested #danger #divine #enlightened #hoped

Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

#also #beginning #blocks #examining #forgot