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optimism effort battle
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.
optimism fearless enough
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.
optimism doubt soil
William Arthur Ward Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.
optimism mind anticipation
Samuel Johnson No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
optimism mind mirth
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.
optimism healthy mind
Margery Allingham The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.
optimism worry sides
Mike Dooley Impatience is a sign of hurrying; hurrying is a sign of worrying; worrying is a sign someone forgot time is on their side.
optimism sometimes pessimist
Mark Twain It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
sometimes dimitri dedicated
Richelle Mead Eddie was intensely dedicated too. Adrian sometimes called him mini-Dimitri
sometimes shops knickers
Trinny Woodall I literally change on the shop floor. I just stand there in my knickers sometimes.
sometimes enough responsible
Sarah Silverman Sometimes loving each other isn't enough. You have to be responsible for your own happiness. You can't stay in a relationship because you're afraid of the unknown.
sometimes breathe knows
Tori Amos Sometimes I breathe you in and I know you know.
sometimes easy taxes
Venus Williams Sometimes, you know, once you pay your taxes and once you pay your expenses, once you've lived this life, things add up quickly. And it's easy to become a statistic. And that's something I've always tried to avoid, and I've always said, hey - not that it won't be me, that, hey, it could be me.
sometimes rich prose
William Strunk, Jr. Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.
sometimes situation nepotism
Vikram Chatwal Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.
sometimes
Sandra Cisneros Sometimes hearing the stories is going to change people's lives much more than if they read it.
sometimes certain possessiveness
William Devane There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.
pessimistic nervous trouble
Joni Eareckson Tada Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.
pessimistic economy economist
Nate Silver The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
pessimist optimist wells
Mark Twain A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.
pessimistic pessimist optimist
Mark Twain Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.
pessimistic obligation
Eugene Ionesco Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
pessimistic resurrection notes
Bill Vaughan There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.
pessimist cronies call-me
Isaac Bashevis Singer Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.
pessimistic opinion fantasy
David Eddings If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.
pessimist projects optimists-and-pessimists
Colin Mochrie I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.