Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Davis

Stephen is progressing well. We are optimistic about his prospects for the weekend.

C. S. Lewis

Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would become pessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic.

Carl Rogers

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

Beth Riesgraf

It's so weird, not knowing what your life is going to be. I'm being optimistic. And when 'Leverage' comes to an end, I have lots of ideas for other things. You can't really sit and wait for things to come to you.

Bill Bryson

Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best - life wouldn't be worth living if we didn't have hope. And I also do think that human beings often do do wonderful, correct, brilliant things. So, on balance, I'd like to be optimistic about the future.

Ray Tanner

I was really optimistic going into practice. I thought we were a little more comfortable at the plate today.

Constance White

I think it's partly the war. Pink is very sweet, childish, optimistic color.

Russ Granik

I don't have any reason to be optimistic here.

Rodrigo Rato

I find these views optimistic to the point of willful blindness.

Bill Crawford

Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.

Bill Crawford

Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes.

Bernard Beckett

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

Bill Vaughan

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

Martin Charnin

Her spirit and her optimism are organic to the American spirit, and that's what this show is about.

Cameron Crowe

Optimism is a revolutionary act

Dick Thornburgh

That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each.

Denis Hayes

I suppose I'd characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian.

Walter Benjamin

What most impressed me about Cuba was the optimism.

Bill Sienkiewicz

To me, that's one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this piece in watercolor, and then work on something else on the computer, or work on something else that's a completely different approach

Bernadette Peters

George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection.

Bill Hicks

If you are living for tomorrow, you will always be one day behind.

Billie Joe Armstrong

History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.

Ayn Rand

I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics.

Camila Alves

We are all going to die one day. Everything else, my friend, I am not sure.

C. S. Lewis

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship.

Alan Garner

I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.

David Bowie

I woke up one day and realized I was a closet hetero