Studs Terkel Quotes
With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.
Studs Terkel
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There is a fine line between optimism and delusion. I cross it often.
Hal Elrod
I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.
Ian Mcewan
Teach hope to all, despair to none.
Abraham Lincoln
Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.
Norman Vincent Peale
Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.
Friedrich Nietzsche
For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.
Hermann Hesse
You've got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
Bette Davis
I mean, if we try to 'fluff up' 'Nikita?' We're done. If we try to 'fluff' 'Nikita,' I don't want to be involved and I don't want to watch the show.
Maggie Q
Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary.
Kiefer Sutherland
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
William James
Harvard meant a lot in my writing life from the beginning, even though I didnt actually do much composition on the spot.
Seamus Heaney
With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.
Studs Terkel