174 quotes found
“Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness.”
“We're living among infinite possibilities. And the prevalent philosophies of post-modernist pessimism that come out of the universities are really a major tragedy. The opportunities for progress an...”
“I think I am going to have to supercharge my optimism to arm myself for the battle ahead. Trust me, it is going to be a battle.”
“Make every misadventure an adventure.”
“You could be the ugliest, nastiest most miserable piece of shit known to man, but if you had a beating heart there was always a chance you'd turn into a diamond after a million years.”
“An optimist is a braver cynic.”
“I know, but if I feel this bad for Gramps, how am I going to feel when its Dad? Tyler told me. Youll feel even worse, of course, but youll carry on, because happiness has a way of creeping in again...”
“Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous.”
“My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.”
“Up ahead stands the fun house, which you enter through a clowns smiling mouth.I would kill myself if I was prisoner here, Shelby says.No, you wouldnt, just out of courtesy, I say, because your body...”
“They will also tell you how far along we are along the depletion curve; the optimists among them will even claim that there is nothing to worry about, because we have two or three decades of produc...”
“The secret idea she was forming of an afterlife gave her the foothold she needed to endure the agonies to come, a newfound courage and optimism which found instant expression through SHOPPING.”
“Have a smile for breakfast, you'll be shitting joy by lunch.”
“SIR ROBERT CHILTERN: But may I ask, at heart, are you an optimist or a pessimist? Those seem to be the only two fashionable religions left to us nowadays.MRS CHEVELEY: Oh, I'm neither. Optimism be...”
“If optimism is the highest form of courage -- as I am beginning to believe it is -- then these students are all heroes.”
“I said, 'Yes theres a lot to look a head to. Like croaking iron at Widders Dump. We do the croaking and they get the iron.'He said, 'Riddley theres other things to do as wel.'I said, 'Yes and they ...”
“My optimism? Where I grew up our principal cultural expression was the funeral. Whatever keeps me going, it isn't optimism.”
“So many powerful, inspirational, insightful, hopeful and connected speeches today. It's been a joy to feel the energy of the women's marches all over the country and world. Feeling optimistic and e...”
“Nothing wrong with believing good things will happen.And if it doesn't, there's always whiskey.”
“It is our non negotiable responsibility to always stay positive, no matter what! The only thing that can make you negative is the thing you allow to make you negative! Think well and stay positive!”
