"I've never met a successful pessimist."

-- William O'Neil

#Successful Quotes #Pessimist Quotes #Mets Quotes

“George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.”
“Usually, if I think something is really funny, it doesn't get any reaction whatsoever.”
“I just love math and most people don't.”
“It's a misnomer to say you can criminalize one part of the transaction and not criminalize the entire transaction. For example in Sweden, where the law was passed in 1999. Those laws didn't actually decriminalize people who sell sex; they introduced new criminal penalties for the people who buy sex. Nothing changed in the legal status for the sex workers themselves. It's impossible for them to operate a legal business. When you criminalize part of a transaction, you're creating collateral damage for all those engaged in it. You are now making them work in a criminalized context.”
“I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq.”

Source : "New Strategy Vindicates Ex-Army Chief Shinseki" by Thom Shanker, www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2007.
“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”
“If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that.”
“Forget about writing to Penthouse. This one was going to be a story for their grandkids.”

Source : Suzanne Brockmann (2002). “Out of Control”, p.27, Ballantine Books

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