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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested. -- Edward Albee
O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her) Dashed all to pieces! O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished! -- William Shakespeare
What's that?" she asked the girl, wrinkling her nose. "Oh, that? That's just Pillover." "And what's a pillover, when it's at home?" "My little brother." "Ah, I commiserate. I have several of my own. Dashed inconvenient, brothers. -- Gail Carriger
You...you've been here quite a long time, haven't you?" What? Oh...yes. Ever since I married What's-her-name. Uh, Martha. Even before that. Forever. Dashed hopes, and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested. How do you like that for a declension, young man? -- Edward Albee
I sense that the road to Heaven is paved with dashed hopes. -- Michael Leunig
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained. -- Seamus Heaney
Everyone has expectations. You just don't want to have them dashed, so you're quiet about them. -- Josh Radnor
I was ten years old when my first 'Vogue' cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks of fashion obsession. -- Hamish Bowles
Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say! -- Mary Douglas
I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off. -- Clive Sinclair
I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows. -- Hermann Hesse
I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks. -- Jeff Buckley
I'm finding it increasingly difficult to simply walk down the street. In New York, I dashed in to buy a big pair of sunglasses to conceal myself, but the guy behind the counter shouted 'Hey! It's Dr. House.' -- Hugh Laurie
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. -- Sigmund Freud
The lifelong health problems of John F. Kennedy constitute one of the best-kept secrets of recent U.S. history - no surprise, because if the extent of those problems had been revealed while he was alive, his presidential ambitions would likely have been dashed. -- Robert Dallek
Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move. -- Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later. -- Jonathan Sacks
He said there is 80 of us, ready to come down and the next thing I knew is that Jo Brown dashed in and said your family has already moved and you have to move, the boat is ready to take you out. I didn't have time to ask, even ask a question. -- Kamisese Mara
A boy has never wept...nor dashed a thousand kin -- Dutch Schultz
They dashed on towards that thin red line tipped with steel. -- William Howard Russell
He had a dashing smile. It nearly dashed right off his face. -- Shannon Hale
When hopes of reform are dashed, people will rise up and seek revolution, -- Xu Zhiyong
Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction. -- Russell Brand
She walked beside Jared, four inches of rain-dashed darkness between her hanging wrist and his. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed-and all because of a ferret. -- Lisa Kleypas
They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall. -- Claudius Claudianus
Students, in particular, now find themselves in a world in which heightened expectations have been replaced by dashed hopes. -- Henry Giroux
He had high hopes for society, and though his hopes were too often dashed, he remained a raging optimist. -- Randy Pausch
The worst mistake that a statesman can make is to promise victory and to see it dashed, the hopes dashed. -- Winston Churchill
Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning. -- Robert Breault
From open sea she's chosen meand dashed the hopes of many.A life with her is worth the hopesmy love for her may bury. -- Uzoma C. Azuonye
My cup of sweets is not unmingled: it is dashed with a bitterness that I cannot hide from myself, disguise it as I will. -- Anne Bronte
That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence -- Jack Kerouac
I was ten years old when my first Vogue cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks of fashion obsession. -- Hamish Bowles
Get out of my way, you cakesniffers!â? said a rude, violent, and filthy little girl, shoving the Baudelaire orphans aside as she dashed by. -- Daniel Handler
One will never reach distant shores, if he chooses to remain upon the dock, In fear his little ship of dreams may be dashed against the rocks. -- Fethullah Gulen
Sometimes it seemed like the truth was a bandy-legged soul who dashed from one side of the world to the other and I could never find him. -- James McBride
Nothing has stolen more dreams, dashed more hopes, broken up more families, and messed up more people psychologically than our propensity to disregard God's commands regarding sexual purity. -- Andy Stanley
It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance. -- George Bernard Shaw
Winter hurled more wind and rain at the city than it ever had before. Clouds dashed about in all directions emptying their thunder, hail and rain. The horizon was choked in fog. -- Ismail KadarÃ©
Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish. -- Walter Scott
I don't know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I'm telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it. -- P. G. Wodehouse
I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows. -- Hermann Hesse
I have dashed across continents and oceans as a fugitive and have matched my wits with the police and secret agents seeking to deprive me of one of the greatest blessings man can have-liberty. -- Jack Johnson
God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, "Free-will" is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces. -- Martin Luther

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