Foolish Optimism Quotes

#1. War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness to unintended secondary results.

Joseph Sobran

#2. We may not be of the same blood, but we are brothers. Every Warrior here is my brethren. Doona carry your burdens alone. They will eventually bury you.

Donna Grant

#3. I'm sure people will wonder if I could have hit all those home runs had I never taken steroids.

Mark McGwire

#4. The only thing that I know about Feyenoord, is that they are from the country of Ajax

Fabio Capello

#5. God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one who cheated, I am the one who performed miracles, I am the one accusing myself today, I alone can absolve myself; me, the man.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#6. And standing there ... old Abbie Deal began to cry. They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

#7. The power of mankind has always been in overlooking the finality of things and holding onto optimism even when doing so seems foolish.

Chris Dietzel

#8. I'm eternally grateful to the penal system in California for saving my life.

Frank Morgan

#9. Whoever said a horse was dumb, was dumb

Will Rogers

#10. Trust ... trust your fellow actors to support you; trust them to come through if you lay something heavy on them; trust yourself.

Del Close

#11. The pessimist may call the optimist a fool; but who is more foolish, the happy individual who expects more happiness or the one who fills his life with bitterness and has only more despair to look forward to?

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#12. Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.

Walter Lippmann

#13. We weren't meant to live forever, nor dwell in solitude. A life without change is no life.

Mark Lawrence

#14. Expect the worst and you can't be disappointed. Optimism is the luxury of the young, the foolish and the dullard.

Luke Scull

#15. I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants

Zig Ziglar

#16. When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.

Jeanne Moreau