Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Julia Ward Howe

Don't you think that the best things are already in view?

I. F. Stone

The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the ingenuity of science and no limit to the deviltry of human beings.

Hyman Rickover

Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.

J. Michael Straczynski

When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.

J. K. Rowling

I would assume that you were going to offer me refreshment, but the evidence so far suggests that that would be optimistic to the point of foolishness.

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.

I am optimistic that these talks won't collapse.

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

James Branch Cabell

Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

Jacqueline Woodson

I couldnt be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because Im pretty optimistic.

Elton John

I have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you'd go nuts.

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.

Paul Hawken

If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, you don’t have the correct data. If you meet the people in this unnamed movement and aren't optimistic, you haven’t got a heart.

Paul Hawken

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse. What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.

Patrick Marber

I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.

There were two different expectations in this land of the future. On the one hand the the optimistic belief in an unending progress with millenarianistic overtones and on the other hand the doomsday expectation of the final battle of Armageddon. Both are perspectives are uniquely American and both are inter-related.

Miguel de Unamuno

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.

Nicholas D. Kristof

I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight

Nelson Mandela

I am fundamentally an optimist.

Nelson Mandela

There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested...

Neill Blomkamp

It's just my maybe naive, optimistic view that whatever knowledge we gain, and if it comes to pass that we can somehow understand what consciousness is, if we can somehow create that, it will ultimately be used for the good.

Mike Huckabee

America needs optimistic leadership to revive national soul.

Nick Cannon

I always try to be optimistic, but not to the point where I'm getting on people's nerves.

Olivia Wilde

My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.

Margaret Atwood

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

Kid Cudi

Some people just don't want to see change, but thankfully there are a lot of people more optimistic for something new in music, even with the bigger picture like with Obama getting elected.

Ken MacLeod

I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.