Quotes by Optimism For women, marriages foreclosed often resulted in an accumulation of booty; for men, these failed projects of implausible optimism were more likely to manifest themselves in material lack. It was hard to resist the metaphorical impression that women got to keep the past itself, whereas men were simply robbed of it. Lionel Shriver optimismmenpast Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy Louise Imogen Guiney optimismbornchildren I might not be able to use the word "hope," but I could certainly use the word "optimism." I'm very optimistic. I don't feel that it helps to be pessimistic. At some point in my life I made a conscious decision that I would try to be optimistic - not blind to anything at all - but to always hear the way that had the best chance for happiness. Louise Erdrich optimismoptimisticdecision You can think everything is dire, but you act as if there's possibility. I see children coming into the world as an expression of this. Sometimes, not always - it can just be somebody that wasn't on the birth control pill or didn't have access to abortion. But I usually see a wanted child as a sign of optimism, and I like that. Lynne Tillman optimismchildrenthinking I am by nature a worried optimist. Madeleine Albright worriedoptimismoptimist Optimism is America's birthright.... There is no social problem Americans Maggie Gallagher optimismmarriageamerica What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism. Madeleine Albright optimismpeopleworld To lose patience is to lose the battle. Mahatma Gandhi optimismpatienceinspirational I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy. Madeleine L'Engle optimismtragedybelieve I ignore all the doomsaying nonsense. I'm in a business where the odds of ever earning a living are a zillion to one, so I know itcan be done. I know the impossible can become possible. Marcia Wallace optimismoddsdone The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable. Margery Allingham optimismhealthymind I was saying to Paul Schrader that he missed the idealism and the passion of that era in Hollywood, but also in American life, that '60s sense of optimism and hope. Margot Kidder idealismoptimismpassion Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls was made all about drugs, when to most of us, that just meant pot and magic mushrooms. He made it seem like we were all shooting heroin into our eyeballs. But that's part of the whole '60s and what it represented: feminism and civil rights and trying to stop the war. Hopefully we're starting to see some of that optimism again, through the excitement around Barack Obama. Margot Kidder optimismdrugwar I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism . . . and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years. Margaret Thatcher optimismoptimisticyears Optimism can be relearnt. Marian Keyes optimism If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives. Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne optimismpatiencegiving Plague has hung over human history. The biggest human extinction was after 1492 in North and South America when the mortality rate was 95 per cent, which is enormous. But again, I'm actually giving you grounds for optimism: There were enough to continue. The five per cent who made it through are what you need to survive a bottleneck, which we have been through before. Margaret Atwood optimismgivingamerica There's too much negativity in the world. Staying positive is a better investment. Mark Kostabi negativitystay-positiveoptimism Rereading Candide, I was struck by the link between optimism and the optimal, the idea that we have been placed in this optimal world rather than some other. Mark Ravenhill optimismworldideas Optimism and happiness are not the same thing, but they are becoming interchangeable, and it seemed to me that Voltaire's Candide gave me a way into something important happening in modern-day culture. Mark Ravenhill optimismimportantway«1213141516171819202122»
