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"No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up." Lily Tomlin
"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work." -Thomas Alva Edison
OPTIMIST, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner. Karl Krause
A good listener is usually thinking about something else. - Kin Hubbard
The world is divided into people who do things--and people who get the credit. ~Dwight Morrow
An optimist is someone who tells you to cheer up when things are going his way.
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them." -Thoreau
So much havoc has optimism wrought in this world that pessimism appears not only a legitimate way of looking at things but a moral duty. - Christopher Spranger, The Effort To Fall
I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do? - Ronnie Shakes
Optimism is the madness of maintaining that everything is right when it is wrong. - Voltaire
We're giving you a new chance at life, and an opportunity to screw it up in a new and original way. --Holly, "Red Dwarf"
Show me an idealistic person who says that life must be preserved at any cost and I will show you a practical person who will betray anyone, anytime, to remain alive.
"Average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top."
"I may only be a pothole in the road to you, but I'm gonna be one heck of a deep pothole."
"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work." -Thomas Alva Edison
"'He means well' is useless unless he does well." -Plautus
“Some guys are chick magnets, if you know what I mean. I tend to attract cars.” ~Smiling Bandit
"No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up." >>>Lily Tomlin
You see things, and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were, and say "Why not?" -- George Bernard Shaw
OPTIMIST, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner.-Karl Krause
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. - Aldous Huxley
The world is divided into people who do things--and people who get the credit. ~Dwight Morrow
An optimist is someone who tells you to cheer up when things are going his way.
If at first you don't succeed, well, so much for skydiving. Victor O'Reilly, Games of the Hangman
"Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?" -J Michael Straczynski.
So much havoc has optimism wrought in this world that pessimism appears not only a legitimate way of looking at things but a moral duty. - Christopher Spranger, The Effort To Fall
Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousend are bastards. - Theodore Dreiser
I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do? - Ronnie Shakes
Optimism is the madness of maintaining that everything is right when it is wrong. - Voltaire
When there are two conflicting versions of the story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst. - H. Allen Smith
Abandon hope early and avoid the rush.
I used to be lost in the shuffle. Now I just shuffle along with the lost.
No man is an island, save I, eroded by this sea of despair. -ThunderFoot
The madness of demons is rage - the madness of angels - hope. --A. A. Attanasio, "The Dragon and the Unicorn"
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts, that hope always triumphs over experience, that laughter is the only cure for grief, and that love is stronger than death." - Robert Fulgahm
Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets. -William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust
The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you. -Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow
They've promised that dreams can come true - but forget to mention that nightmares are dreams, too. -Despair, Inc.
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