"Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable."

-- Voltaire

#Optimistic Quotes #Optimism Quotes #Madness Quotes

“I believe we've... we've worked very hard with the Iraqis to build a better place ever since the fall of Saddam's government.”

Source : Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.
“I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.”
“A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.”
“I have never intended in any of my films to sell violence or to glorify it. Even in the most intense action sequences in my films, there is a message about how evil violence is.”
“I never saw a mob rush across town to do a good deed.”

Source : Quoted in John Burke, Rogue's Progress: The Fabulous Adventures of Wilson Mizner (1975)
“I love most things in my life. I feel it's important to try and live life through adventure, colour and love.”
“My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.”
“I’d always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth.”

Source : Alma Katsu (2012). “The Taker: Book One of the Taker Trilogy”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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