Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Fay Vincent

I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.

Eugene O'Neill

I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

I'm possibly more optimistic than I was the first time.

I'm probably the most optimistic person in the country, ... The only way for me to go is up.

Jacques Chirac

I'm optimistic we'll get the resolution vote tomorrow, I'll put it to you that way.

Henry Miller

Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, naïve, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am I but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles.

They're optimistic about the second half, and I think that's reasonable.

Jane Roberts

In terms of earthly life as you understand it, it is overly optimistic to imagine that eventually all illnesses will be conquered, all relationships be inevitably fulfilling, or to foresee a future in which all people on earth are treated with equality and respect.

Joel Coen

I think when you watch the dailies, the film that you shoot every day, you're very excited by it and very optimistic about how it's going to work.

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.

Greg Rusedski

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

Buzz Aldrin

Knowledge of the past and an optimistic view of the present give you great opportunities.

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.