Quotes About Optimism

the guy could fall in a barrel of titties and come out suckin' his thumb.

You can be happy anywhere, if you have the right point of view. And the ability to ignore the smell of an entire planet.

It's not too bad. I'll live." "Can you walk?" Sagan asked. "As long as I'm not required to like it

And of course, just like in the movies, as soon as you mention that life is good, that means something needs to come by and sqaut one out on your life.

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.

And because they were in some way one thing and one purpose, she smiled with him. And they began this day with hope.

At one point, as Samuel urges Adam to raise his boys well regardless of the blood that might be in them, Adam tells him, You can't make a race horse of a pig. Samuel replies, No, but you can make a very fast pig.

With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.

A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.

You can't make a race horse of a pig. No, said Samuel, but you can make a very fast pig.

chuckling—the sound he made when any force in the world defeated him. He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

In Russia it is always the future that is thought of. It is the crops next year, it is the comfort that will come in ten years, it is the clothes that will be made very soon. If ever a people took its energy from hope, it is the Russian people.

Things are neither so good nor so bad as they seem to you now

Don't roust your faith bird-high an' you won't do no crawlin' with the worms.

It seems to me that young people have lost their faith in America. Our ancestors had faith.

Try to believe that things are neither so good nor so bad as they seem to you now.

Tu quello che puoi fare devi farlo lo stesso. L'importante,' diceva, 'è sapere che ogni volta che c'è un piccolo passo avanti, poi c'è pure una scivolata indietro, ma mai così indietro come prima. E' la differenza,' diceva, 'dimostra che quello che hai fatto era giusto farlo. E non era una perdita di tempo pure se magari sembrava di sì.

George si alzò in piedi. «Ce la faremo,» disse. «Prenderemo quella casetta e andremo a viverci.» Tornò a sedersi. I tre stettero queti, tutti imbambolati nel portento della cosa, ciascuno lanciato nel futuro dove la cosa tanto bella si sarebbe avverata.

To hell with that rotten century! Let's get it over and the door closed shut on it! Let's close it like a book and go on reading! New chapter, new life. A man will have clean hands once we get the lid slammed shut on that stinking century. It's a fair thing ahead. There's no rot on this clean new hundred years. It's not stacked, and any bastard who deals seconds from this new deck of years— why, we'll crucify him head down over a privy.

There's people that when they see Samuel Hamilton the first time might get the idea he's full of bull. He don't talk like other people. He's an Irishman. And he's all full of plans—a hundred plans a day. And he's all full of hope.

He don't talk like other people. He's an Irishman. And he's all full of plans - a hundred plans a day. And he's all full of hope.

I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.

The faith in an afterlife, however much our reason ridicules it, very modestly extends our faith that each moment of our consciousness will be followed by another - that a coherent matrix has been prepared for this precious self of ours. The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, of what we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.