Melioristic Optimism Quotes

#1. If you lose 50%, it takes 100% to get back to where you started-and that takes something you can never get back: time.

Tony Robbins

#2. We are what we're made to be.

Tamora Pierce

#3. Open avowal of dictatorship is much less dangerous than sham democracy. The first one can fight; sham democracy is insidious.

Wilhelm Reich

#4. I was shaking when our lips parted and he leaned his forehead against mine, his fingers carding through my hair, my hands on his face.
"I won't let them," Rafael said. "I won't let anyone take you away. I'll protect you. I'll always protect you. I don't care how. I just will.

Rose Christo

#5. There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.'

Charles Francis Richter

#6. The hundred flavors of rare dainties Are no more once you've eaten your fill. You may accumulate private savings But not in your stomach private hoardings!

Wu Cheng'en

#7. Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.

Joseph E. Stiglitz

#8. Nothing in my younger life could have told me I would have needed to know how to speak English.

Omar Sy

#9. It is an altogether wrong idea that the modern product of civilization is less susceptible to love. I sometimes think it is the other way.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#10. Every actress has a line she'll draw, where she'll say, 'This I will do and this I won't.' For me, everything has to be important to the story and the director has to be able to tell me why.

Sheryl Lee