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I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.

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• I really am a cockeyed optimist.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Really
  • Optimist
  • Am

• I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Relationship
  • Optimist
  • European

• You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.

  

  Ted Danson
  • You
  • Stupid
  • Optimist

• I've traveled to many countries in Africa, and to me, Benin felt the most hopeful.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Countries
  • Hopeful
  • Traveld

• I'd faced a lot of rejection from labels and the industry, and it was getting hard to keep believing in myself. But something wouldn't let me – inside – I had this voice that was relentlessly hopeful, and honestly, I just loved performing and writing too much to ever really quit.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Loved
  • Rejection
  • Believing

• I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Optimistic
  • I Can
  • Hopeful

• An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Lion
  • Optimist
  • Scenery

• The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Man
  • Knows
  • Optimist

• Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Information
  • Optimist
  • Pessimist

• A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Human
  • Improvement
  • Hopeful

• There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything." and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyways. Either way, nothing happens."

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Difference
  • Optimist
  • Pessimist

• Let's say for now, that I'm hopeful that Al will not run that kind of campaign.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Run
  • Campaign
  • Hopeful

• After the November elections gave Republicans control of the Senate, voters made clear they wanted change. We were hopeful our leaders got the voters' message. However, after our speaker forced through the (spending bill) by passing it with Democratic votes and without time to read it, it seemed clear that we needed new leadership.

  

  Louie Gohmert
  • Time
  • Change
  • Control

• I don't have any faith, but I have a lot of hope, and I have a lot of dreams of what we could do with our intelligence if we had the will and the leadership and the understanding of how we could take all of our intelligence and our resources and create a world for our kids that is hopeful.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • World
  • Kids
  • Hope

• The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world. I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me. But, I think it just came from being affected by strong, personal art.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• In the face of so much pain, I remain an incurable optimist. I am fueled by the passion of the women I have been privileged to meet and work with, buoyed by their hope for peace, justice, and democracy.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Work
  • Women
  • Hope

• People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Believe
  • Hope

• Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Difference
  • Optimist
  • Pessimist

• I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Right
  • Fool
  • Optimist

• The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'

  

  Vladimir Bukovsky
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Statistics

• Nobody can finish off anyone else. No political party can finish off another political party. Neither will we finish off anyone nor will the others finish us off. It is all a wrong notion. In fighting for the better prospects of his party, nobody can find fault with him.

  

  H. D. Deve Gowda
  • Political
  • Party
  • Fighting

• In truth, my husband and I were persons of “quite different construction, different bent, completely dissimilar views.” But we always remained ourselves, in no way echoing nor currying favor with one another, neither of us trying to meddle with the other’s soul, neither I with his psyche nor he with mine. And in this way my good husband and I, both of us, felt ourselves free in spirit.

  

  Anna Dostoyevskaya
  • Free
  • Husband
  • Spirit

• It's an incredibly limited sphere those tabloids have, isn't it? Basically, they can accuse people of being gay and they can accuse people of taking drugs, but they can't get any more sensational without entering into the realm of incredibly bad taste.

  

  George Michael
  • Gay
  • Taste
  • Drugs

• I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Optimist
  • Hopeful