Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

Byron Katie

For me, the future lives only here in my mind, as thoughts and images, just as the past does, and I love those thoughts and the world that it produces. I am entirely optimistic about the future.

Chetan Bhagat

Be so busy Improving your self that you have no time to criticize others.

Chaka Fattah

The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.

Charles Sanders Peirce

The difference between a pessimistic and an optimistic mind is of such controlling importance in regard to every intellectual function, and especially for the conduct of life, that it is out of the question to admit that both are normal, and the great majority of mankind are naturally optimistic.

Bob Brown

I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I’m extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.

Bob Seger

My management tells me, Don't be optimistic, because it's the young people's world now. They want to hear what they want to hear, and you're a classic rocker. I don't know if you're gonna get the play.

Charlie Pierce

Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.

Carlos Ghosn

I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.

Carlos Fuentes

I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.

In his career, he's cautiously or guardedly optimistic when he does new things. He's not a pie-in-the-sky idealist. He's one of the most realistic assessors of what's really going on that you'll meet.

I'm not as optimistic as I was, but it's not all over. The parties are still talking,

I'm quite optimistic on how much support will be given.

Arthur C. Brooks

Conservatives are better talking about opportunity and growth in the abstract, while liberals talk more about poor people. We [americans] need a good, optimistic, conservative opportunity ideology that is totally geared toward lifting up the poor. That's what I most want to see in candidates.

This is the most optimistic manufacturing survey we've seen in some time.

Sterling Marlin

This is the most optimistic I've been in a long time. I've got some unfinished business.

Dorothy Fields

Grab your coat, and get your hat Leave your worry on the doorstep Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Change is the law of life and of relations between nations. When two great peoples such as ours, energetic and optimistic, live side by side in all the diversity that freedom offers, change is rapid and brings in its wake problems, sometimes frictions.

Claudia Rankine

I don't think people want to look at problems. They want a continuous narrative, an optimistic narrative. A narrative that says there's a present and a future - and what was in the past no longer exists.

Dalai Lama

I am basically optimistic.

Andre Agassi

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

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.

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.