I'm not so optimistic as to think that you would ever be able to garner a majority of an American Congress that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You can hope, because it is contagious. You can be optimistic because it breeds action. You can have faith and belief because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has been said that the United States was deceived into entering and expanding the Vietnam War by its own overoptimistic propaganda.… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
My father enabled me to really believe in myself. And yet I've heard very similar stories - from many, many people. It's… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
I served for 42 years on the board of trustees of the largest Presbyterian seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, and we had brilliant… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
Sectarian divide has created a schism in our society that is a major challenge. As monarch of all Bahrainis, it pains me… — Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Copy Share Image
When people talk about people who are optimistic about gold, they call them 'gold bugs.' A bug is an insect. I don't… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
I kind of know what my job is, it's to develop a message that's hopeful and optimistic about the future of the… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future.… — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
“And I can’t help but feel that Whitman, for all his blustering beauty, might have been just a bit too optimistic. We… — John Green Copy Share Image
Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible.… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The New Age movement looks like a mixed bag. I see much in it that seems good: It's optimistic; it's enthusiastic; it… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Smile, though your heart is aching. Smile, even though it's breaking. When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by if… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Men will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic or optimistic, as I am.… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
In my 45-year career as an investment counselor, humility did show me the need for worldwide diversification to reduce risk. That career… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
I have a very optimistic view of my future right now. I'm very excited to see where it goes, but I try… — Melissa Benoist Copy Share Image
I think the satirist is always basically optimistic. The satirist's complaint about society is always that it doesn't measure up to a… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
A flower is a miracle, but it does not have the sight or speech to describe us. And our own ability is… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
Although I'm perceived as very optimistic and upbeat, it comes out of being the opposite of that - feeling isolated or lonely,… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
I want to win. [...] We're not going on win by doing what Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton do each and every… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
The boom produces impoverishment. But still more disastrous are its moral ravages. It makes people despondent and dispirited. The more optimistic they… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
It remains to be seen whether the more optimistic scenario for Sino-American relations can be realised. Much rests on the shoulders of… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The investment business has taught me – increasingly as the years have passed – that people, especially investors (and, I believe, Americans),… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
“Never blame circumstances for your condition, you yourself are responsible for what you go through. If someone's treating you bad, its your… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
“Everything's gonna be fine. Stay optimistic. If there's dark clouds coming, they'll leave again. They always do. The world is round. Everything… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
If you believe suicide will bring you peace, or at the very least just an end to everything you hate- you are… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Look, we're Americans: optimistic, addicted to the quick fix, constantly on the hunt for the new and exotic. It's much easier for… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
It takes a long time for women to feel it's alright to be chingona. To aspire to be a chingona!...You are saying,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I try to look at it like an angry optimist. In other words, I'm not happy with the state of affairs that… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
I asked her, "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" She looked at her watch and said, "I'm optimistic." "Then I have… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Success for me is to feel happy - 80 percent of the time. That's been my goal in life. I think that… — January Jones Copy Share Image
My view is that the U.S. market will eventually join the emerging markets on the downside because if you take a bearish… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
More than 70 percent of Colombians want peace. The rest are afraid of the price to be paid. But even they will… — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
The vicar, whose name is Reverend Waite, leads us in prayers that all begin with 'O Lord' and end with our somehow… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Looking to the future, the words uncertain and scared near the top but hopeful and optimistic prevail and beneath the division one… — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
“You are unique. You have different talents and abilities. You don’t have to always follow in the footsteps of others. And most… — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
I always remain optimistic. There are three levels of music production: the majors, indies, and what I call "inties," music distributed via… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image