Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones

Jose Saramago

I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?

Jo Nesbo

I've been watching more American TV because of all the great TV series that have come out in the last five to 10 years. I'm a 'Sopranos' fan, I'm a 'Wire' fan, I'm a 'Mad Men' fan. I'm a 'Deadwood' fan. It makes me optimistic for the future of storytelling on TV that producers are willing to take that kind of jump.

John C. Reilly

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.

James Norton

I'm quite a smiley guy, I have my moments, but I think I'm generally of a relatively optimistic nature.

Norton Juster

So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

Emile M. Cioran

Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness -- that is, the improbable -- with becoming, and to coerce an optimistic, aerial vision to the point where it rejoins its own source: the very cynicism it sought to combat. In short, a monstrous fantasy.

John Nolan

Am I optimistic or pessimistic? I?d have to say I?m anxious.

Helen Clark

People are optimistic about the future.

Khalil Greene

I've always been optimistic. When things come together and I feel comfortable, I know I can be a productive player with an impact.

Khaled Hosseini

I returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their government, how optimistic they were about the future of their homeland.

Jonathan Nolan

Everybody is waiting for the end to come, but what if it already passed us by? What if the final joke of Judgment Day was that it had already come and gone and we were none the wiser? Apocalypse arrives quietly; the chosen are herded off to heaven, and the rest of us, the ones who failed the test, just keep on going, oblivious. Dead already, wandering around long after the gods have stopped keeping score, still optimistic about the future.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.

Norman Reedus

I went from a very pessimistic person to a very optimistic person sort of overnight, which is very weird. It's not even the success of my shows. I think it's the lifestyle change, I really do.

Orson F. Whitney

The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience.

Orison Swett Marden

A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.

Michael Gove

I am delighted by the support I have received from colleagues. It reflects the optimistic message that I've been putting forward.

Michael Jordan

Be optimistic about everything in life.

Martin Sorrell

One of the reasons why they are optimistic is that there is more competition. Red Bull has become more competitive, the races have become more attractive - and that is what fans want!

Martin Sorrell

Monaco was my first race of the season and I spoke with a number of people and all seemed to be very optimistic.

Ted Cruz

I am long term optimistic and short term pessimistic on immigration. Long term, I'm optimistic because there's a lotta bipartisan agreement outside of Washington on immigration. There's overwhelming bipartisan agreement, number one, that we need to secure the borders. That we need to finally do something to stop illegal immigration.

Ted Cruz

We're seeing is young people who are optimistic, who want a future, want our constitutional rights, are coming to our campaign.

Mamie Gummer

I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken.

Eric Liddell

Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God's plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins. God's love is still working. He comes in and takes the calamity and uses it victoriously, working out His wonderful plan of love.

John McCain

I'm very optimistic about my home state of Arizona.

John Hench

But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt believed in himself, and he was optimistic about what he wanted to do. He just knew it will be okay, and Dali was the same way. They had a great deal in common that way.

Michael Weatherly

I am blood type O-positive, which I remember by staying 'optimistic positive.'

Sherrod Brown

I think this group of people came together in a way that they haven't before in 2007. I'm very optimistic we can do something ... I want to get there, I want to support this.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'm optimistic. I see no longer people accepting fuzzy thinking in the world. The change is not that people aren't still saying under-informed things. The change is that if you're in power and you say something under-informed, there are people out there with a voice who will take you to task for having done so

John Templeton

The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.

John Templeton

The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.

John Templeton

The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be. It's self centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.

John Templeton

A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then.