Top 100 Glass Full Quotes
#1. I didn't really like the taste of booze. I liked the effect it did on me. But I can't say I savored a glass full of Chablis Chablis 1932. I drank whatever s - - was in front of me and got me buzzed.
Ozzy Osbourne
#2. For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced.
Francis Bacon
#3. I think that the vice president is a person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality.
George W. Bush
#4. I forgot to sup
annoyance
from his glass full of
mingled dread and rage
Now let me take
a small draught of solace
from my own little cup
full of predicaments!
From the poem- Draught
Munia Khan
#5. Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
[From: 19 Lessons On Tea]
Alexander Pushkin
#6. If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really and truly composed of H-2-O, or even mineral water, or sake. Meditation is Drinking it!
Taisen Deshimaru
#7. Kush rolled, glass full, I prefer the better things.
Drake
#9. Here are poems from a new generation of writers who honor the magnetic fields of the real; who feel and think with full and open-eyed passion; who focus heat as the magnifying glass focuses sun: until the paper catches. Read them.
Jane Hirshfield
#10. I'm a glass-is-half-full person now, and your sorry ass is still in half-empty country.
Janet Evanovich
#11. After expressing his appreciation that his glass is half full rather than being completely empty, he will go on to express his delight in even having a glass: It could, after all, have been broken or stolen.
William B. Irvine
#12. 99% of the people in the world would say there's something that they'd like to change about their lives, because nothing's perfect, and nobody's perfect. I suppose I could look at the glass half-empty instead of as half-full.
Morris Chestnut
#13. You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.
Richard Paul Evans
#14. He was a glass half full kind of person and she was ... what? The glass is going to break before you can even pour kind of person. Yikes.
Erin McCarthy
#15. [My mum] was always like that: grateful for life itself. Her glass was not only half full, it was gold plated with a permanent refill.
Sarah Winman
#16. We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.
Jon Bon Jovi
#17. Rainstorms are incredible: falling shards of glass, the air full of diamonds.
Lauren Oliver
#18. My mom was an enthusiastic, positive, glass-is-half-full type of person and that is how I live my life and I owe that to her. She was an amazing woman.
Kliff Kingsbury
#19. Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr
#20. Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.
George Carlin
#21. Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be, Yet hold I off.
William Shakespeare
#22. plews." Glass paid the captain his full attention. Every citizen of St. Louis knew some version of Drouillard's story, but Glass had never heard a first-person account. "He did that twice, went out and came back with a pack of plews. Last thing he said before he left the third time was,
Michael Punke
#23. Optimists see the glass as half full.
Pessimists see the glass as half empty.
Experiential trainers see the whole glass and its context.
Bogdan Vaida
#24. Some people look at a glass and see it as half-full. Others look at a glass and call it a dragon.
Jon Stewart
#25. ...it looked as if she had eaten a bowl full of glass and it was twisting and cutting her up inside.
Michele Greene
#26. You're just Little Miss Optimist, aren't you? Do you come with accessories, like a glass half full and lemons to make into lemonade, too?
Rachel Caine
#27. My kids and I figured out that there's a third kind of person, and I don't know what you call them, but it's somebody who sees that the glass is always full because it's half full with water and half full with nothing, so that's the third kind of person. I don't know what it is.
Louis C.K.
#28. I've always been blessed with confidence. I am a glass-half-full person. My first movie, 'Private Benjamin,' got turned down by every studio until the very last one, but I just kept thinking, 'Why are you people not seeing that this is a hit movie? What is wrong with you?'
Nancy Meyers
#29. i'm a realist, miss randall. if you show me a glass, i see it as neither half-empty nor half-full. i see enough water to drown a man, if i can find a way to put it in his lungs.
D.L. Snell
#30. Carolyn Maloney is really constantly thinking, "How do we improve things?" You know, sees the glass always half-full, and you have to be an optimist to work in Washington. So that's what I - we admire so much about her.
Eleanor Smeal
#31. Pardon me for finding the glass half full.
Rupert Giles
#32. He isn't bashful, but an asshole who'd sooner smash his glass because it was half full.
Gordon P. Bois
#33. My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.'
Abraham Verghese
#34. Their homeopathic letters,
Envelopes full of carefully broken glass
To lodge behind your eyes so you would see
Ted Hughes
#35. I see the glass half full ... but of poison.
Woody Allen
#36. I never quite understood the question that says, is the glass half empty or half full? What's the difference? Eventually it'll end up empty and in the trash.
Cyndi Goodgame
#37. Glass half empty, glass half full. Well, either way you won't be going thirsty, count your blessings not your flaws ...
Lauren Aquilina
#38. Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty.
I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.
George Carlin
#39. Perception can be one-sided or variant: "Glass half empty or half full." There usually is more than one way of perceiving. Thoroughly check your inner dialogue.
T.F. Hodge
#40. If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.
Peter Drucker
#41. I'm a confirmed negaholic. I don't just see a glass that's half full and call it half-empty; I see a glass that's completely full and worry that someone's going to tip it over.
Peter McWilliams
#42. I like to see the glass as half full, hopefully of jack daniels.
Darynda Jones
#43. Some say the glass is half full and blush,
Some say it's half empty and sink,
I feel you are in the midst of,
reaching out for another awesome drink!
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#44. I'm a positive thinker and actor. I look at a glass; a negative person sees the glass and says: too bad it's half empty ... I look at the same glass and say: Hallelujah!! It's half full!!!
Maya Angelou
#45. It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.
Joey Comeau
#46. My head is full of fire
and grief and my tongue
runs wild, pierced
with shards of glass.
Federico Garcia Lorca
#47. I clink my glass against hers and we drink without toasting. The aged cognac tastes like history. Not the kind taught in schools, full of wars and politics and cultural revolution - the smaller, softer history of a world with only two people in it.
Isaac Marion
#48. Cognitive therapists focus on getting patients to see the glass as half-full rather than half-empty. Being positive has become rather a fetish. A more radical tactic would be to abolish the need for evaluation and just accept the glass as it is, whether it be cracked or brimming.
Gwyneth Lewis
#49. Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas.
James Alan Gardner
#50. I went into the house. I put on Jimi Hendrix's 'Red House' at full volume, filled the glass to the brim with rum, without ice, and went back to the terrace. To gaze at the night and the dark sea and the night.
Pedro
#51. Under my head till morning; but the rain, Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh, Upon the glass and listen for reply ...
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#52. Surely, he was all real things to us: our blue-striped unicorn, our double-lensed burning glass, our consultant genius, our portable conscience, our supercargo and our one full poet.
J.D. Salinger
#53. Libraries were full of ideas - perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.
Sarah J. Maas
#54. I am very fortunate. I am a glass-half-full eternal optimist type to the point of being a moron. But I would never presume to know how hard it goes for others. How, for some people, just getting though the day is an incredible effort that can hardly be borne.
John Niven
#55. You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting the light, shifting into an infinite universe of flowers and rainbows and insects and planets, magical dividing cells, pictures no one else knew ...
Francesca Lia Block
#56. Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.
Nora Roberts
#57. Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.
Mark Cuban
#58. The war mages might have been running a full-on offensive, but she'd been right there with them. She'd sent them screaming in terror. She'd imprisoned one like a bug under glass. She'd run one the hell down.
Mom, I realized in shock, had been kind of a badass.
Karen Chance
#59. This is the kind of writer who gets the ball rolling in his search for the holy grail, but finds that it's neither magic bullet nor a slam dunk, so he rolls with the punches and lets the chips fall where they may while seeing the glass as half-full, which is easier said than done.
Steven Pinker
#60. That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking glass and a large one may be equally full, but the large one holds more than the small.
Samuel Johnson
#61. Many people believe that introversion is about being antisocial, and that's really a misperception. Because actually it's just that introverts are differently social. So they would prefer to have a glass of wine with a close friend as opposed to going to a loud party full of strangers.
Susan Cain
#62. Egg whites are full of protein." "So is jizz. You don't see me harvesting yours so I can drink a glass of it.
Helena Hunting
#63. The glass is neither half full or half empty but merely too large for the contents.
Chris Byrd
#64. I've always been a glass-half-full as opposed to a glass-half-empty, and the day that changes is the day I should leave.
John Key
#65. Glass half empty, glass half full, glass too small?
David Mitchell
#66. Mom said when she brought us beachcombing? She told us to always believe in something more. She told us to look at what was right in front of us, and we'd see that even a grain of sand was a miracle. That even a bit of glass was a message, that the universe was full of tricks and clues and signs.
Nancy Thayer
#67. Genes, I have learned, do not make a family. Families are the people that stick around through good and bad times. Sadness is a part of life. Choosing to be happy and see the glass half full is a struggle we all must make.
Jaycee Dugard
#68. It's not whether your glass is empty or full, it's what you do with it that really matters.
Sue Nelson Buckley
#69. I tend to think the good outweighs the bad. Then again, I try to be a glass-half-full person. Although I stand by my theory that if you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid in your glass, you are either a cliche or an alcoholic.
Caprice Crane
#70. I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have to budget everything. I have to take on the role not just as a designer but a business. But I'm a glass half-full kind of guy.
Prabal Gurung
#71. It would probably strip my flesh while giving me vocabulary lessons. I'd be dead but smarter. How's that for glass half full?
A&E Kirk
#72. Whether the glass seems half full or half empty depends on how thirsty you are.
Marty Rubin
#73. I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full.
Nigahiga
#74. My glass is not only half-full, it holds five-hundred-dollar-a-bottle Dom Perignon champagne.
Suzanne Brockmann
#75. Half full or half empty, just be thankful if your glass has anything in it at all.
D.E. Sievers
#76. She loved him that much, in a way that made no space for herself, as though he were a full glass of tea and she was the piece of ice that would cause an overspill onto the tablecloth.
Kathy Hepinstall
#77. We are all of us - well, with the exception of people who have just fallen in love and those lucky demented few who see life's glass as three quarters full - we are just getting by.
Juliann Garey
#78. I always see the glass as half full and prefer to look on the bright side of life.
Alli Simpson
#79. I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass is much more than half full.
Hamilton Jordan
#80. Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.
Bill Cosby
#81. The glass is always completely full-half air and half liquid.
Mark Miller
#82. I'm afraid my glass is no longer half full because I drank most of it.
Lawrence Fagg
#83. In Canada pianos needed water. You opened up the back and left a full glass of water, and a month later the glass would be empty. Her father had told her about the dwarfs who drank only at pianos, never in bars.
Michael Ondaatje
#84. Walker liked to joke that, together, he and his wife owned the entire glass. He took the half-full part, while she usually claimed the empty half.
Alan Orloff
#85. I've not been able to avoid periods of time where I felt super-lonely. Luckily, I have a side that is able to always see the glass as half-full.
Will Ferrell
#86. Drain your drink, come on. You don't leave a full glass in a pub. Charles II outlawed it.
Harriet Evans
#87. Whether your glass is half full or half empty there's still room for more wine.
Trish Jackson
#88. There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.
Goldie Hawn
#89. Stop asking if the glass is half full or half empty. Instead ask "What's in it? How did it get there? What can I do with it?"
David Kaufman
#90. A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full.
Josiah Stamp
#91. I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?"
Damon Lindelof
#92. Your glass seems like it will always be half full even it falls down and shatters to pieces
Kevin Jared Hosein
#93. We did some soul-searching. Was the cable industry obsolete? Was it an opportune time to get out? Our conclusion was that if you rebuilt your system with this new fiber-optic coaxial hybrid - which we now call broadband - the glass was half full, not half empty. We could compete.
Brian Roberts
#94. There are lots of things, including changing the kind of inner dialog, that can mitigate anxiety. And yes, there are people who have the glass half full and glass half empty, and I'm afraid the glass is going to break and I'll cut myself on the shards.
Scott Stossel
#95. Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones. It seems to Kristina you gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in. Bree throws rocks at the feeble glass, laughs
Ellen Hopkins
#96. Just as a balloon too full of air eventually bursts, a person too full of sadness eventually breaks. Fractures like a cracked bone. Shatters like glass. Snaps like a rubber band.
Anoosha Lalani
#97. I was 16 before I met another passionate collector. One summer, I visited England; a new friend took me calling on his dotty, brilliant old aunt. She occupied a quaint house in Kent. Its walls were lined with glass-fronted cases full of what? Ancient shoe buckles.
Allan Gurganus
#98. I see the glass half full and thank God for what I have.
Ana Monnar
#99. She stared at the dark shimmer of glass that faced the street. The Clares never pulled curtains. They were comftorable with the dark. But there was another kind of dark. The darkness of minds full of hate.
Caroline B. Cooney
#100. Looking at the glass half full seems to help others do the same and help fill their glasses too.
Emilyann Girdner
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