#optimist

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else. ↗

— Earl Weaver

#anything #became #being #discovered #else

Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone. ↗

— Michelle Williams

#because #changing #gets #grief #heart

The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.' ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#birth #gave #land #optimistic #pessimistic

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat. ↗

— Harold Wilson

#i #optimist #who

I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#going #i #mean #most #offensive

We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, that he will be confirmed. ↗

— Alberto Gonzales

#confirmed #day #end #end of the day #fair

I think there's a lot projected on beautiful women, period. At least, maybe this is just my fear, but I do sometimes feel dismissed before I've even been allowed to participate. I have moments of feeling really wounded. But I am pretty optimistic, and I do enjoy a lot of my life. ↗

— Shalom Harlow

#am #beautiful #beautiful women #been #before

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#correct #events #ever #fun #march

But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt believed in himself, and he was optimistic about what he wanted to do. He just knew it will be okay, and Dali was the same way. They had a great deal in common that way. ↗

— John Hench

#believed #common #dali #deal #great

I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance. ↗

— Amanda Holden

#bad #balance #gets #good #i