Famous quotes containing the word hoped:
“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
—Bible: New Testament St. Paul, in Hebrews, 11:1.
“Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)
“He took up his pen, which seemed to parch like a martyr in his hand. He began to write, nevertheless, addressing the nine-and-ninety lies of the moment he hoped with for a night of saloperie at the side of the twisted strumpet, Fiction, who lasciviously rolled her eyes at him, hiked up her skirt, and beckoned him on.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)