Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gwen Ifill

Aspiring black leaders are often asked to transcend race, even though no one ever asked, say, Hillary Clinton to transcend gender. This is a precarious race straddle that most members of the breakthrough generation seem to reject. Even the most well meaning white Obama supporters seem to take deep satisfaction in this idea. Obama, they insisted, could be raceless, a reasurringly optimistic view of America's deepest burden that ignores countless peices of evidence to the contrary.

He's optimistic about his participation at the World Cup.

Jack Layton

So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.

Stephen is progressing well. We are optimistic about his prospects for the weekend.

C. S. Lewis

Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would become pessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic.

Carl Rogers

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

Beth Riesgraf

It's so weird, not knowing what your life is going to be. I'm being optimistic. And when 'Leverage' comes to an end, I have lots of ideas for other things. You can't really sit and wait for things to come to you.

Bill Bryson

Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best - life wouldn't be worth living if we didn't have hope. And I also do think that human beings often do do wonderful, correct, brilliant things. So, on balance, I'd like to be optimistic about the future.

I was really optimistic going into practice. I thought we were a little more comfortable at the plate today.

We are therefore optimistic about the outlook for UBS -- for 2006 and beyond.

We had kind of a rough day. But we're optimistic that things will be better (today).

You can also be pessimistic and worry that there will be so many disagreements that nothing will come of it. Let us remain optimistic in that regard for the time being.

Buzz Aldrin

Knowledge of the past and an optimistic view of the present give you great opportunities.

Janet Fitch

I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

Jane Roberts

In terms of earthly life as you understand it, it is overly optimistic to imagine that eventually all illnesses will be conquered, all relationships be inevitably fulfilling, or to foresee a future in which all people on earth are treated with equality and respect.

Harold Wilson

I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat.

Gough Whitlam

A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic.

James Branch Cabell

Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

Jacqueline Woodson

I couldnt be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because Im pretty optimistic.

Gloria Gaither

God walks with us. He scoops us up in His arms or simply sits with us in silent strength until we cannot avoid the awesome recognition that yes, even now, He is there.

Glenn Reynolds

One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low.

Jim Cramer

We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.

Jenny Holzer

Usually going places makes me feel optimistic. And I'm a hillbilly, so heading to the countryside made sense a number of ways.

Gilda Radner

It's such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death. What spirit human beings have!

Greg Rusedski

My biggest problem will be lack of match toughness but I am a positive, optimistic person.

I. F. Stone

The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the ingenuity of science and no limit to the deviltry of human beings.

Hyman Rickover

Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.

Elton John

I have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you'd go nuts.

J. Michael Straczynski

When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.

J. K. Rowling

I would assume that you were going to offer me refreshment, but the evidence so far suggests that that would be optimistic to the point of foolishness.

Ivan Krastev

The Church of TED is very optimistic. Bulgarians are some of the most pessimistic in the world. There are the Happy, the Unhappy and the Bulgarians.

Greg LeMond

I'm more optimistic about cycling right now than I've ever been.

Grace Paley

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.