#opt

That so many thousands of children around the world are available for adoption is a sign of our impoverished humanity. That so many persons around the world open their hearts and homes each year to embrace a few of these children is a lasting testimony to humanity's enduring nobility. ↗

— Deborah A. Beasley

#deborah-beasley #family-relationships #foster-care #parenting #psycology

I opted out of the band. ↗

— Lou Gramm

#i #opted #out

I try to avoid wearing black because sometimes it's the easy option. But I'm young, so it's nice to be able to play with color and not just wear black all the time. I can save that for when I'm older. ↗

— Emma Watson

#avoid #because #black #color #easy

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#get #just #optimism #pessimism #used

The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#maximum #optimum #population #than #then

The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance. ↗

— Shelley Berman

#allen #first #had #night #options

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