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.

Larry Elder

Optimism. It's not just a mind-set, it is behavior.

Pierre Trudeau

For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.

Phyllis McGinley

O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.

Sheikh Ahmad

He is very stubborn. When he puts his mind into something, he will do it.

Laura Vandervoort

A lot of people think that reptiles don't feel, and they do. I think everyone should keep in mind what it is they are buying and if it is really worth it to them.

Alex Solis

He really won it very easy. That's what I had in my mind, not to squeeze him.

Jeff Judkins

Havlicek was my idol, so I didn't mind one bit.

Sandra Allen

Her mind was very sharp and never aged.

Heywood Broun

Her mind is so open that the wind whistles through it

Dave Tippett

His mind is in the right place now.

Susan Dolan

I think it's important to be mindful about how you live every day - what you think, and how you live. It's part of a mindful lifestyle.

Phil Jackson

I think the only thing it did was take our mind off the game.

Thomas Glynn

Kids are bombarded by images of smoking. It is hard to pin any one thing as the cause of something when we are dealing with a behavior this complex.

Karl Hill

Keeping children from smoking starts with parents and their behavior. Some parents say they disapprove of teenage smoking, but continue to smoke themselves. The evidence is clear from this study that if parents don't want their children to start smoking, it is important for them to stop or reduce their own smoking.

Gianfranco Fini

Italy had not activated behavior intended to hide anything from the ally.

Thomas R. Insel

Reports that online cognitive behavioral treatment can be as effective as in-person psychotherapy suggest that technology will expand access, extend the impact of a therapist, and expedite treatment for people who might not find 'seeing' a therapist acceptable.

Charlie Strong

He's always harping on that; he's always talking about the behavior of the team. Now he's where he trusts this football team. The guys, they know how to act, they understand how to act. No one has gotten into any trouble, and I think they understand. Nobody wants to be the first one to get in trouble.

Kim Clark

It involved serious risk to the students, ... The behavior was intended to humiliate the victims.

John Hughs

I think when you look at the rally last week, the behavior we're seeing from the market today is pretty constructive, ... We're digesting the gains from last week, and if historical trends prove right, we should close the week a little higher. Technically and objectively, the market is doing everything it can.

Bruce Allen

We talked a lot about individual responsibility, ... We talked about being a part of a team, which he understood well. It's not the behavior you expect from a coach, whether part-time or full-time. ... I'm not going discuss publicly what we'll do as a club as far as discipline.

Doug Davidson

I think that 9/11 is a greater loss if we do not change our behavior in some way. I think that if we don't turn it into a positive change in some way, those innocent people really died for no purpose. I would like to think they had some important purpose. What I see, that I don't like, is the product of what our land of opportunity can breed.