I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.
Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.
I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.
I love the Restoration. It's a bit like coming out of the John Major era into the optimism of Tony Blair.
When you dream with optimism and trust, it becomes a reality fast.
Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.
I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
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Optimism / stung like grit in my swimsuit all the long ride home . . .
But optimism dribbles away when horror repeats.
The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world.
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What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism.
Who underestimates is buried in the optimism of the deads. (Qui sous-estime s'enterre - Dans l'optimisme des morts.)
There are no tragedies in life, only violent coup d’etats on the state of irrational optimism
Organizations may be better able to tame optimism than individuals are.
