Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salman Rushdie

optimism is a disease

Robert Louis Stevenson

We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.

Sarah Dessen

He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything.

William Arthur Ward

Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.

Samuel Johnson

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

Joseph Addison

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.

Norman Vincent Peale

Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.

Bill Ryan

It was a discouraging verdict, but we think there's plenty of reason for optimism on an appeal.

Steven Pressley

It's the first time in six or seven years that there's been this sense of optimism and that's been reflected in the season ticket sales.

John Hoffman

Jacobson was the least stoned at the time, I guess. But he was plenty stoned during the interview.

Sue Hales

If you haven't filed yet, you're not alone, and you have plenty of company.

Craig Bellamy

I have seen plenty of level-headed kids, but I don't think I have seen any with his sort of talent.

Jesse L. Martin

I have plenty of 'Law & Order' on my resume.

John Asher

It's very quiet back here for this time of the year. There's not a lot going on. But they will all be here in plenty of time for May 6.

Trent Johnson

They've had plenty of time to adjust, and someone else will step up.

John Dryden

It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.

Adam Timmerman

There's been plenty of weird things going on this year.

Tim Howard

I've made plenty of mistakes as a keeper, that's for sure. I'll make plenty more before I'm through.

Brian Sabean

I would say it has to be somebody who's a veteran, who's an innings-(eater) who's had reasonable success on a winning team.

Joanna Lumley

I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.

Susanna Moore

Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.

Mohamed ElBaradei

If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.

Terri Johnson

He's a big reason why we're having the success we are as a program.

Jeff Tarter

I think it's a reasonable model. It eliminates flakiness of patching and upgrading software.

Joel Fox

There is every reason to take it seriously when they are involved.

Sen Sears

I think we have come to a reasonable consensus. I think it will have strong support in the Senate.

Ron Ellis

It has been frustrating, but there is no reason why he can't come back at 100 percent.