Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Safran Foer

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

Henry Rollins

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Henry Rollins

Humans are pretty amazing at living pretty much anywhere and so that makes me optimistic that perhaps humanity will be able to survive itself, because the reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century.

Mamie Gummer

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

James Redfield

We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.

James Redfield

We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions...this especially applies to what we used to call bad things...the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative.

Larry Gelbart

I'm a recovering optimist.

Jon Anderson

I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.

M. Russell Ballard

Of this you may be certain: The Lord especially loves righteous women-women who are not only faithful but filled with faith, women who are optimistic and cheerful because they know who they are and where they are going, women who are striving to live and serve as women of God.

Eric Kripke

Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.

James Black

[There is no shortage of scientific talent.] But [I am] much less optimistic about the managerial vision [of the pharmaceutical industry] to catalyse these talents to deliver the results we all want.

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.

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.

It's tracking very strong. We feel very optimistic about this season.

It's been tough so far, but the weather is picking up. I'm very optimistic that we'll get this program going.

Nelson Mandela

I am fundamentally an optimist.

Nelson Mandela

There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested...

Neill Blomkamp

It's just my maybe naive, optimistic view that whatever knowledge we gain, and if it comes to pass that we can somehow understand what consciousness is, if we can somehow create that, it will ultimately be used for the good.

Mike Huckabee

America needs optimistic leadership to revive national soul.

Nick Cannon

I always try to be optimistic, but not to the point where I'm getting on people's nerves.

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.

Kevin Cramer

I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile.

P. G. Wodehouse

So always look for the silver lining And try to find the sunny side of life.

Paul Begala

I'm very sunny. You know, I'm always optimistic.

Martha Beck

I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.

Paul Hawken

If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, you don’t have the correct data. If you meet the people in this unnamed movement and aren't optimistic, you haven’t got a heart.

Paul Hawken

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse. What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.

Patrick Marber

I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.