Famous Quotes & Sayings

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!

Greg Rusedski

My biggest problem will be lack of match toughness but I am a positive, optimistic person.

Cassandra Clare

Look on the bright side," said Simon, "If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I'm not sure the rest of you qualify anyway.

Mike Royko

Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on.

Kevin Cramer

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

Mohsin Hamid

There really still is a deep wound, you know, in the collective psyche of Pakistan. And the violence has left enormous human and emotional and psychic damage. That's not going to go away. But that said, I think I'm cautiously optimistic that we're looking at a better future.

Milton Friedman

Hong Kong is the bellwether. If the Chinese stick to their agreement to let Hong Kong go its own path, then China will also go that way. If they don't, that is a very bad sign. I'm optimistic.

Ivan Krastev

The Church of TED is very optimistic. Bulgarians are some of the most pessimistic in the world. There are the Happy, the Unhappy and the Bulgarians.

Greg LeMond

I'm more optimistic about cycling right now than I've ever been.

Grace Paley

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.

Gloria Gaither

God walks with us. He scoops us up in His arms or simply sits with us in silent strength until we cannot avoid the awesome recognition that yes, even now, He is there.

Glenn Reynolds

One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low.

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.

I couldn't be more optimistic than I am now. I am real excited, and I feel I have something to prove.

Eoin Colfer

A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.

Elon Musk

I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least.

Hillary Clinton

I think that's why I'm so well-suited to this time, because I think the values reflect really profound American values, and I think my agenda would be the best way to really get Americans once again to feel more confident and more optimistic about our future and deliver results, which I think is what it's about.

Hillary Clinton

There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.

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.

Irving Kristol

The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it regards signs of one as evidence of unsoundness, irresponsibility.

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.

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'm cautiously optimistic that it will work out well for the industry.

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.

Andre Agassi

I really, really want to. I plan on it. I'm optimistic about it.

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

Jack Layton

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