"Optimism is when you're not sure where life is going to take you, so naturally you anticipate the best possible outcome"

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Source : Hilary Thayer Hamann (2010). “Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel”, p.89, Spiegel & Grau

Hilary Thayer Hamann

#Optimism Quotes #Outcomes Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.”
“Things flow better and everyone is in a better mood because they're like, 'I got my point across and it sounds like I want it to sound'”
“It is regrettable that Senator Kennedy has chosen Veteran's Day to continue leveling baseless and false attacks that send the wrong signal to our troops and our enemy during a time of war. It is also regrettable that Senator Kennedy has found more time to say negative things about President Bush then he ever did about Saddam Hussein. If America were to follow Senator Kennedy's foreign policy, Saddam Hussein would not only still be in power, he would be oppressing and occupying Kuwait.”
“If you look closely you'll find all my lovers inscribed on my skin.”

Source : Jill Ciment (2007). “The Tattoo Artist: A Novel”, p.33, Vintage
“America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a sadness for us all.”

Source : "The Joke's Over". Book by Ralph Steadman, 2006.
“The years 1781 to 1793 are crucial for many reasons, but chiefly because they pose in an especially clear way the main problem of German philosophy for the next century. This is the old conflict between reason and faith which recurred during the pantheism controversy between Jacobi and Mendelssohn.”

Source : "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.
“Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom.”

Source : Petra Karin Kelly, Glenn D. Paige (1992). “Nonviolence Speaks to Power”, Matsunaga Inst for Peace
“As long as we are alive, we feel fear. It is an intrinsic part of our makeup, as natural as a bitter cold winter day or the winds that rip branches off trees. If we resist it or push it aside, we miss a powerful opportunity for awakening.”

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