174 quotes found
“Everyone tries to be an optimist. But being an optimist is a bit boring and not honest. Losers are more interesting than winners.”
“Some people see the liquid and thing half full. Others only see the air and think half empty. Sometimes I get the sense Chatham sees it all, which is kind of terrifying. I don't know if I want him ...”
“He was incapable of anticipating to-morrow's griefs.”
“You will never forget what has happened to you. You cannot. And I will never replace your mother. I cannot. But you must believe that this is a beautiful world. People are basically kind and loving...”
“We must lay to, if you please, and keep a bright lookout. It's trying on a man, I know. It would be pleasanter to come to blows. But there's no help for it till we know our men. Lay to, and whistle...”
“The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraserin case you thought optimism was dead.”
“Horrle was nodding gravely, humoring him, probably thinking that out of all these two hundred fun-loving people it was just his luck to have run into a doom merchant. McIntyre had committed the sin...”
“cheered by the optimism that one sometimes had at the beginning of strenuous exercise, a kind of helium that filled our lungs and carried us along”
“Nothing wrong with a little optimism, long as it doesnt set policy....”
“In the Soviet Union we have a saying, a pessimist is someone who believes things can't get any worse. An optimist thinks maybe they can.”
“I always see the crack in the glass before I see the window.”
“If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.”
“At the end of the line, lies a new beginning.”
“The short-lived crash and burn of an eternal optimist is far more deeply felt than the day-to-day misery of an eternal pessimist.”
“You are born to win. But to become that true winner, you must make living a winning life your priority.”
“Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this.”
“optimism, where it is not just the thoughtless talk of someone with only words in his flat head, strikes me as not only absurd, but even a truly wicked way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the unsp...”
“I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.”
“No matter how bad things got, no matter how anxious the staff became, the commander had to preserve optimism in himself and in his command. Without confidence, enthusiasm and optimism in the comman...”
“It's called optimism but Im losing the hang of it fast.”
