Quotes About Optimism

There's so much to life than what you are feeling right now.

I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I felt that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actor, kidding ourselves on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between those two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.

But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It was a gross, physical salute to the fantastic possibilities of life in this country-but only for those with true grit. And we were chock full of that.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

Those were the good mornings, when the sun was hot and the air was quick and promising, when the Real Business seemed right on the verge of happening and I felt that if I went just a little faster I might overtake that bright and fleeting thing that was always just ahead.

Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it been clever? Yes, it had.

Hey, Wrobik; cheer up, yeah? You're going to shoot down a fucking starship. It'll be an experience.

Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.

Don't lose faith in your stars.

Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.

The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.

And feeling clever, I've always thought, is just a sigh away from being cheerful.

And I was with the man I loved and we were rabbiting on about how we were going to help change the world, and we were on our way home to start our lives together. I even remember thinking to myself, I've never been happier than this. This is it!

By what logic or motivation or helpless surrender did we all, hour by hour, transport ourselves within a generation from the thrill of optimism at Berlin's falling Wall to the storming of the American Capitol?

a sound principle being that nothing was ever as one imagined it, and this was an efficient means of excluding the worst.

He was happy and therefore bound to succeed.

Daylight delights you.

If the lot of you survives, Curran will flay the skin off your backs, Doolittle said. That's what I always love about you, Doctor. Raphael grinned. You're a cup-halfway-full kind of guy. All flowers and sunshine.

One day, she'd find a way to live her life to the fullest. She was sure of it. She just had no idea how she would manage it.

Eleven out of twelve work fine. I'd say that's better chances than getting an orgasm with a blind date and women still try. He blinked and laughed softly. I never know what you'll say next. I don't either.

Eleven out of twelve work fine. I'd say that's better chances than getting an orgasm with a blind date and women still try.

The world was going crazy. Nothing left to do but hold on and yell "Wheee!" at strategic moments.

To me, what I love about the draft is; first, you see the young men who are realizing their dreams that they've worked so hard for. That's a pretty cool thing. You saw the emotion from some of these guys the other day. And then, the second thing is this total sense of hope and optimism. And, I think that's great for everybody.