174 quotes found
“..there are two possible endings to every story.”
“Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" "I can't remember. Which?" "Do you know what those words mean?" "Not really." "An optimist is positive and hopeful. A pessimist is negative and cynical." "I'm a...”
“Instead of cursing the darkness, try to fix the lamp.”
“To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.”
“Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience"."What's pessimism?" I said."Religion without God.”
“Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions, knows about difficulties, but believes they can be overcome, sees the negatives but accentuates the positives, is exposed to the wor...”
“I have more enemies than I deserve," I said. "I am fighting a losing battle, me against the world. The next century is at stake. Time is running out and my optimism is sorely strained.""Yeah?" he s...”
“Author describes one character's optimism as, that quiet well-being which perhaps you and I have felt on a sunny afternoon when, in our brightest youth and health, life has opened a new vista for u...”
“So desperate was Kugel for things to turn out for the best, proclaimed Professor Jove, that he couldn't stop worrying about the worst. Hope, said Professor Jove, was Solomon Kugel's greatest failing.”
“There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.”
“Science fiction always has had strains of pessimism and optimism weaving through its historical development, sometimes one dominating and then the other, usually depending on the state of the world.”
“Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.”
“Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.”
“Optimism is the foundation of courage.”
“We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.”
“The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.”
“In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
“One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.”
“When I look in the glass I see that every line in my face means pessimism but in spite of my face - that is my experience - I remain an optimist.”
“An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.”
