Molly Ivins Quotes

And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

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• Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • May
  • Cry
  • Milk

• If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • World
  • American
  • History

• I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Me
  • Balance
  • Moderation

• How can you be an atheist and have an ideology to go with it? To be an atheist is to be free of some areas of belief. I don't see how that can become an ideology.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Free
  • Belief
  • Atheist

• 'Taxicab Confessions' always cracks me up. And if you are in the mood for a good game show, I like 'Survivor' because it's well made.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Good
  • Game
  • Always

• There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.

  

  Mark Twain
  • American

• I always played soccer in Adidas, but I always wore Nikes. I love street sportswear.

  

  Ian Astbury The Cult
  • Soccer

• You need to know what is worth letting go. And this generally comes with time and patience.

  

  Sahir Ludhianvi
  • Know
  • Need
  • Patience

• Anyhow, I don't think Don King's a very good man. But then again, I doubt that a good man *could* succeed in his business. I'm sure boxing was a dirty sport before he came around. He may have just made it moreso. So that's about all I've got to say about him.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Business
  • Think
  • Boxing

• It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a deux. But those who dismiss him as shallow because his rhetoric was fustian err.

  

  William Manchester
  • Rhetoric
  • Eloquence
  • Shallow

• I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart. Hope is the feeling that life and work have a meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you. Life without hope is an empty, boring, and useless life. I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me. I am thankful to God for this gift. It is as big as life itself.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Heart
  • Dark
  • Stories

• I try to put my culture in all my music, as much as I can.

  

  Karl Wolf
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Put

• Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio.

  

  George Will
  • World
  • Citizens
  • Canada

• Well,” Naomi said cheerfully, “what’s the worst that can happen?” They were silent, considering that, because there were just so many possibilities. But in the end, it was a better idea than Facebook.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Idea
  • Possibilities
  • Facebook

• And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Optimist
  • Disorder