Christian D. Larson Quotes

The true optimist not only expects the best to happen, but goes to work to make the best happen. The true optimist not only looks upon the bright side, but trains every force that is in him to produce more and more brightness in his life….

Christian D. Larson

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• Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Culture
  • Popular
  • Force

• I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Force
  • Welcome
  • West

• The yogi should meditate on a firm seat, one that is clean - untainted by dirt or unspiritual vibrations of others. The thought or life force emanating from an individual saturates the objects he uses and his dwelling.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Force

• No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Forever
  • Force
  • Dictator

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

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Lion
  • Optimist
  • Scenery

• Stupid is a great force in human affairs.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • Stupid
  • Force

• Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Force

• There's no substitute to actually being in the room and having people in the room feel the force of your audition. It's very hard to beat that.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Force
  • Beat

• The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Force
  • Terror
  • Superior

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

  

  Idries Shah
  • Information
  • Optimist
  • Pessimist

• My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Music
  • Simple
  • Looks

• 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

• As you get older you have to force yourself to have new dreams.

  

  John Travolta
  • Dream
  • Force

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

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Difference
  • Optimist
  • Pessimist

• The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Mind
  • Driving
  • Force

• O.K., we had women's lib in the '60s, the women fought for their roles, they're out there in the work force. Now let's talk about how they're dealing with things as human beings.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • Work
  • Women
  • Force

• Kobe was waiting for his game to get hot and it never happened, and we tried to force the ball into him and it cost us.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Game
  • Waiting
  • Force

• You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers.

  

  Eamon Dunphy
  • Great
  • Needs
  • Poverty

• We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Force
  • Crush
  • Trials

• Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Politic

• The national conversation around white entitlement, around institutionalized racism, the Black Lives Matter movement, I think, came about in large part because of the widening and broadening of our understanding of inequality. That conversation was begun by Occupy.

  

  Cathy O'Neil
  • Black
  • Understanding
  • Racism

• I dream for a world which is free of child labour, a world in which every child goes to school. A world in which every child gets his rights.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • World
  • School
  • Dream

• Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Germany
  • Misfortune
  • Poisoned

• The true optimist not only expects the best to happen, but goes to work to make the best happen. The true optimist not only looks upon the bright side, but trains every force that is in him to produce more and more brightness in his life….

  

  Christian D. Larson
  • Force
  • Produce
  • Optimist