#opt

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#arrangement #attempt #delusion #grows #keep

I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general. ↗

— Jude Law

#champion #feel #few #general #great

When you're young, you think you can do anything, and that was really a gift. That's why I can never understand someone telling me 'no' today. 'No' just isn't an option. ↗

— Sandra Lee

#gift #i #i can #just #me

I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose. ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

#general #humanity #i #optimist #suppose

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#i #i am #optimism #pessimism #story

Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person. ↗

— Phillip Lim

#being #believed #business #business person #doctor

Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#america #between #brighter #commitment #contrast

That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#ago #assistance #case #catastrophe #couple

The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes. ↗

— Art Linkletter

#ask #depression #depths #job #options

Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us. ↗

— LaToya London

#after #album #came #coming #focus