174 quotes found
“The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”
“Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.”
“So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.”
“No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won’t make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf)”
“Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.”
“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.”
“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, ...”
“An optimist is a braver cynic.”
“I know, but if I feel this bad for Gramps, how am I going to feel when it’s Dad?” Tyler told me. “You’ll feel even worse, of course, but you’ll carry on, because happiness has a way of creeping in ...”
“Up ahead stands the fun house, which you enter through a clown’s smiling mouth.“I would kill myself if I was prisoner here,” Shelby says.“No, you wouldn’t, just out of courtesy,” I say, “because yo...”
“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 b...”
“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.”
“The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser―in case you thought optimism was dead.”
“Nothing wrong with a little optimism, long as it doesn’t set policy....”
“Like success, failure is many things to many people. With a positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and pr...”
“It's called optimism — but I’m losing the hang of it fast.”
“If we have any role at all, I think it’s the role of optimism, not blind or stupid optimism, but the kind which is meaningful, one that is rather close to that notion of the world which is not perf...”
“But you knew what would happen. Why would you choose to walk right into a situation where you know the person is going to be hurtful? It kills me to see you do that, and you do it all the time. It'...”
