Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm probably the most optimistic person in the country, ... The only way for me to go is up.

I'm not as optimistic as I was, but it's not all over. The parties are still talking,

Jonathan Safran Foer

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kevin Cramer

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

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.

Patrick Marber

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

There were two different expectations in this land of the future. On the one hand the the optimistic belief in an unending progress with millenarianistic overtones and on the other hand the doomsday expectation of the final battle of Armageddon. Both are perspectives are uniquely American and both are inter-related.

Mohsin Hamid

There really still is a deep wound, you know, in the collective psyche of Pakistan. And the violence has left enormous human and emotional and psychic damage. That's not going to go away. But that said, I think I'm cautiously optimistic that we're looking at a better future.

Milton Friedman

Hong Kong is the bellwether. If the Chinese stick to their agreement to let Hong Kong go its own path, then China will also go that way. If they don't, that is a very bad sign. I'm optimistic.

Julia Ward Howe

Don't you think that the best things are already in view?

Mark Twain

Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

Mark Twain

The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.

Mark Twain

...fry me an optimist for breakfast.

Mark Twain

That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.

Mark Twain

It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

Mark Twain

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

Mark Twain

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

Nicki Minaj

I took a learjet to cop some lipstick Yeah Imma risk it I'm optimistic

Miguel de Unamuno

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.

Olivia Wilde

My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.