“I would hope we were just part of an epic [Friday] and the last shot wins. All roads to anywhere go through Chester, I've said that a million times.”

Good or bad, words have an impact on each of us. As a writer, I can only hope that the effects my words have on others are more often good than bad.

“We haven't closed any trails, and we hope it doesn't come to that. But we are now issuing notices for certain 14ers: If you summit this peak, you are trespassing on private property.”

In other words, it was a struggle with himself. And the product of that struggle: anger, bitterness, resentment, envy or transformation, aspiration, hope, decency..the product of that struggle is the quality of your life and the nature of your soul.

“I hope Nokia can stabilize its selling prices. That's the hardest point because if volume does slow down and they're still at these levels, Nokia could be in trouble.”

“One thing that's noticeable are plastic shopping bags; they're caught up in the plants and landscaping. We hope most people just don't dump things out of their vehicles.”

“That's what we have to hope for. This is an outstanding group of kids. They have outstanding senior leadership and they all get along well. You don't always have that type of chemistry.”

“We had a waiting list then and we hope to have another one soon. Even though we lost some folks over the years, that group remains our largest.”

“Smoking is so addictive that pregnant women often can't stop the habit, no matter what the consequences. Our hope is that this study will show expectant mothers another danger of lighting up.”

she should have told me that times slides away on a hillside of lose shale and takes everything in its path-dreams, opportunities, hopes. And youth. It takes that fastest of all.