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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.
Audrey Hepburn

Life, Time, Special

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus

Remember, Once, Among

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.
Eminem

Marriage, Family, Keep

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.
Maureen O'Hara

Family, Born, Remarkable

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.
Angelina Jolie

Happy, Place, Maybe

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
Alice Walker

Flower, Creative, Often

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

Here, Involved, Realized

For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away.
Richard J. Codey

Long, Problems, Away

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
Maria Montessori

Education, Future, Knowledge

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.
Colin Powell

Work, Government, Control

I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me.
Ellen DeGeneres

Funny, Everything, Strange

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

War, Reason, Progress

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.
William Ames

Nature, God, Everyone

When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Against, Steal, Teams

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

Children, Become, Else

I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.
Lena Horne

Woman, Become, Else

We as voters, have long hoped that we would get a businessman instead of a politician in order to help fix America's problems. Well, I am that businessman.
Herman Cain

Help, Long, America

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
Anne Lamott

Peace, Fear, Hate

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

Age, May, Danger

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

War, Iraq, Clearly

With reality TV, sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be everything you hoped, and the camera loves them and they just blossom on the show. And then sometimes it's not all you envision.
Alison Sweeney

Amazing, Reality, Everything

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

Hope, Enough, Anymore

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

Change, Family, School

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

Good, Hope, Nothing

I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them.
Ted Allen

Love, Time, Food

The Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City.
Mario Batali

Leave, Behind, City

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

Success, Someone, Give

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

Family, Society, Different

I hoped, hoped, that maybe I'd be lucky enough to do something on Broadway, in the chorus.
Jennifer Garner

Enough, Lucky, Maybe

During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem would go away.
John Boehner

Problem, Away, Leaders

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