174 quotes found
“When I look at the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes!”
“Thou hast seen nothing yet.”
“I'm no optimist", she said as she opened the cabinet door. " I'm just a realist who smiles too much.”
“I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance of being dis...”
“Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.”
“My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising fro...”
“It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.”
“Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you.”
“Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.”
“Perpetual Optimism is a Force Multiplier.”
“And you? Did you find the doorknob?Hadrian picked up a jug and downed several swallows, drinking so quickly some of the water dripped down his chin. He poured some in his palm and rinsed his face, ...”
“What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide."That is because I know what life is," said Martin.”
“A word about my personal philosophy. It is anchored in optimism. It must be, for optimism brings with it hope, a future with a purpose, and therefore, a will to fight for a better world. Without th...”
“Pessimistic" is a word for "realistic" that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about their unrealisticness).”
“Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push - a smile. A word of optimism and hope, a 'you can do it!' when things are tough”
“The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick.”
“And the candle by the light of which she had been reading that book filled with anxieties, deceptions, grief and evil, flared up brighter than ever, lit up for her all that had once been darkness, ...”
“Pessimism never won any battle.”
“...if you live feeling likeYour glass is half empty, well,It may as well be empty all the way.”
“Everyone has something to hide. And if they couldn't hide it the world would be in a lot worse mess than it is.”
