Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Woolf

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

Wallace Stegner

One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

Wangari Maathai

It's very important to remain optimistic and to see the silver lining in everything you do. Because no matter how sometimes things look difficult, and look like there is no hope, there is always a small glimmering of silver lining that is in everything, and I always look for that, and hang on that, and before I know it, another day comes and is gone.

W. H. Auden

To ask the hard question is simple.

Uri Geller

If you're brilliant and open-minded, you can start at the top.

Twyla Tharp

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

William Goldman

We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.

William Arthur Ward

The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.

Stephenie Meyer

Stop being so… optimistic. It’s getting on my nerves.

Thomas Friedman

I'm from Minnesota. I'm optimistic. I mean, that's just who I am.

Thomas J. Sargent

The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.

Viggo Mortensen

If you're not optimistic on some level, then you've given up.

Viggo Mortensen

I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

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.

Jeannette Walls

Optimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Jennifer James

The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace.

Jeff Cooper

It`s human nature to be optimistic. Any fool can enter a market, it takes talent to exit consistently and profitably.

Jeff Bezos

Though we are optimistic, we must remain vigilant and maintain a sense of urgency.

George Saunders

I am trying to remember that things have certainly been crazier in human history and they may get crazier here and now, and [here I am trying to be optimistic] it's even a good thing, to be going through all of this, if only to be reminded that history hasn't stopped - human existence is as fundamentally unmanageable now as it ever was.

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.

Esther Hicks

That is the optimal creative vantage point: To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation-with no feeling of impatience, doubt, or unworthiness hindering the receiving of it-that is the Science of Deliberate Creation at its best.

Esther Hicks

In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.

Harold Wilson

I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat.

Gough Whitlam

A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic.

Winston Churchill

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else

Frederick Wiseman

I think my movies aren't sentimental. I think my movies are funny and sad and realistic. Not realistic in the sense that they're documentaries, but realistic in the sense that they're not idealistic, they're not optimistic, not pessimistic, and not propagandistic. They're an analysis of a situation. I call it as I see it, so to speak.

Freeman Dyson

The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well.

George W. Bush

And I am an optimistic person. I guess if you want to try to find something to be pessimistic about, you can find it, no matter how hard you look, you know?

Felix Adler

An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist, however, is one who sees the light and the shadows, but in addition sees something else: the possibility of changing the picture, of making the lights prevail over the shadows.