William Arthur Ward Quotes
The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.
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I really am a cockeyed optimist.
Vicki Lawrence
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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
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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
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
Oscar Levant
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An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
Walter Winchell
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To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.
Umberto Eco
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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Francis Bacon
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God's grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious.
R. C. Sproul
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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
Idries Shah
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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
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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
Gaston Bachelard
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To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.
Walker Percy
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If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.
Andrew Solomon
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The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.
Alex Grey
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True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no greater Lord than God; neither can there be a more ardent lover than He.
Alphonsus Liguori
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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
Oscar Wilde
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Good taste is the enemy of creativity.
Pablo Picasso
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My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain.
Michele Lee
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God is the foundation of all authority, He exercises that foundation because He is the author and the owner of His creation. He is the foundation upon which all other authority stands or falls.
R. C. Sproul
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As for companies invested in the space - I think its important to distinguish between a good investment and a material climate change technology - you can have the first without the second, even in the "clean tech" space.
Vinod Khosla
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Last year, a lot of times the first-team offense would be out in the third quarter, ... Now, we're playing all four quarters, and that's only going to help us down the road.
Jason White Green Day
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The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.
William Arthur Ward