Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Kasich

And, look, think about it, there were 16 people in the race, including a number of governors, and there's only one left. And I think that at the end we have to make sure that we have somebody that can go to that town, change that system, grow employment, change the whole way in which it works and ship power money and influence back to the states. So I'm optimistic about it.

John Cusack

I feel close to Lloyd in 'Say Anything'. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I'm not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.

Luke Bryan

I'm a really, really optimistic and really, really positive person. My main thing is, 'Enjoy life. Celebrate life.'

Gail Collins

I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.

Frank Lowy

Invincible is never how I felt, but optimistic... yes.

Juan Manuel Santos

More than 70 percent of Colombians want peace. The rest are afraid of the price to be paid. But even they will realize that their worst fears will not come true. I'm quite optimistic that Colombians do back an agreement with the FARC.

Paul Kurtz

Life, when fully lived under a variety of cultural conditions, can be euphoric and optimistic; it can be a joy to experience and a wonder to behold.

M. Russell Ballard

Of this you may be certain: The Lord especially loves righteous women-women who are not only faithful but filled with faith, women who are optimistic and cheerful because they know who they are and where they are going, women who are striving to live and serve as women of God.

Maxim Gorky

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

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!

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

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.

Margaret Thatcher

I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism . . . and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years.

Lydia Lunch

I'm completely optimistic - I know the end is coming!

Mark Twain

Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

Mark Twain

The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.

Mark Twain

...fry me an optimist for breakfast.