I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and... →
Herbert Croly
My optimism for life carried through my work.
John Dyer
Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
Steve Earle
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
Havelock Ellis
Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.
Ron Fournier
I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
Paul Fussell
I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.
Tom Hanks
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes... →
Vaclav Havel
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
Stephen Hawking
Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
Robert Hewison