#opt

It does seem fair to give them the option of a better return. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#does #fair #give #option #return

In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on. ↗

— May Sarton

#optimism #experience

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#account #claim #enables #enemy #essence

My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that. ↗

— Jo Brand

#arena #deserved #felt #go #i

I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome. ↗

— Christie Brinkley

#crash #fall #helicopter #i #love

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#been #century #destroys #families #family

In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#iraq #must #option #succeed

In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination. ↗

— James Buchan

#eyes #financial #financial markets #forever #future

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic. ↗

— James Buchan

#alliance #beings #climate #convenience #diplomacy

If I want to run around a field when I'm 70, I would like to have that option. ↗

— Amanda Burton

#field #i #like #option #run