Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm an optimistic person. I think about it, but I'm not paralyzed by fear.

Harold Wilson

I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat.

Jack Layton

So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.

Isabel Allende

I am very optimistic because I have seen the changes in my lifetime. I have seen the world change for the better. We always think that present times is terrible, that what's happening today, it was never worse, that the world is going in the most awful direction. But I think that the world that my grandchildren will have will be better than the one I had when I turned 20.

Harry A. Blackmun

I am more optimistic though, that this court will eventually conclude that the effort to eliminate arbitrariness while preserving fairness in the infliction of [death] is so plainly doomed to failure that is - and the death penalty - must be abandoned altogether. I may not live to see that day, but I have faith that eventually it will arrive.

Guy Pearce

I can be fairly optimistic, but I'm probably more a realist, I think. I mean, optimism's an interesting quality, isn't it, because I'm always slightly dubious as to what's behind it?

Graeme Base

Im a relentlessly optimistic person, and I think The Waterhole is a story of hope and that even though nature goes through cycles, we prevail in the end.

Gwen Ifill

Aspiring black leaders are often asked to transcend race, even though no one ever asked, say, Hillary Clinton to transcend gender. This is a precarious race straddle that most members of the breakthrough generation seem to reject. Even the most well meaning white Obama supporters seem to take deep satisfaction in this idea. Obama, they insisted, could be raceless, a reasurringly optimistic view of America's deepest burden that ignores countless peices of evidence to the contrary.

He's optimistic about his participation at the World Cup.

I'm very optimistic on the long bond. The fundamentals are there and the technical underpinnings are still positive.

I'm trying to be optimistic but it's hard.

I am relatively optimistic that by the end of the day there will be statements that we have substantive agreements.

And when thinking about it, not everyone's an optimist quite yet.

Paul Allen

As I said before, I am optimistic about that.

At this point, I'm cautiously optimistic and we'll see what happens.

We are very, very optimistic about Connecticut, particularly Bristol.

Sumner Redstone

We are very optimistic on the rest of the year.

We're very optimistic that it will be, but you have to go through the process.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.

It would be optimistic to say we'd get to 2 million.

We are cautiously optimistic that we can secure more MK services in the future.

I'm not optimistic we can somehow diplomatically get them to give them up.

Kevin Cramer

I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile.

Jim Cramer

We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.

Jenny Holzer

Usually going places makes me feel optimistic. And I'm a hillbilly, so heading to the countryside made sense a number of ways.

Gilda Radner

It's such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death. What spirit human beings have!

It's tracking very strong. We feel very optimistic about this season.

It's been tough so far, but the weather is picking up. I'm very optimistic that we'll get this program going.

Everything remains challenging in telecom. I'm not optimistic in the near-term.

Everything remains challenging in telecom, ... I'm not optimistic in the near-term.

Mark Shapiro

It's not done yet, but I'm optimistic that we can get it done.

Jeff Koons

I don't think irony is about judgment; I think irony is something like, "Oh, that's interesting," because it's not something I think one starts off to achieve. I think it's just something that presents itself. And if it does, I find it's usually optimistic, not negative in its terms.

James Buchan

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.