#optimist

If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm! ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#optimist #humor

In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination. ↗

— James Buchan

#eyes #financial #financial markets #forever #future

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic. ↗

— James Buchan

#alliance #beings #climate #convenience #diplomacy

I think when you watch the dailies, the film that you shoot every day, you're very excited by it and very optimistic about how it's going to work. ↗

— Joel Coen

#dailies #day #every #every day #excited

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? ↗

— Rene Descartes

#blow #light #may #must #none

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present. ↗

— Rudy Giuliani

#leaders #need #optimists #present #their

Barack Obama may have found the answer to his biggest rhetorical challenge: When millions of voters are unemployed or underemployed, how does a president simultaneously sound realistic and optimistic? ↗

— Ron Fournier

#barack #barack obama #biggest #challenge #does

I'm completely optimistic - I know the end is coming! ↗

— Lydia Lunch

#completely #end #i #know #optimistic

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience. ↗

— Don Marquis

#guy #had #much #never #optimist

An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice. ↗

— John McCarthy

#believes #even #extreme #his #humanity