“Optimism is in short supply in the Middle East, but what I do think is the administration needs to step up its act. We should use military strikes against ISIS when they threaten the Shia areas or Baghdad. We need to accelerate very rapidly, and we have ways to do it, aid to the Syrians, and we need to be more active, with results, not simply inputs. That is absolutely important right now, because people are questioning our will, not our capabilities.”
Optimistic feeling
Optimistic Quotes — page 192 of 204
“I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true. To what good I open the doors of my being, and jealously shut them against what is bad. Such is the force of this beautiful and willful conviction, it carries itself in the face of all opposition. I am never discouraged by absence of good. I never can be argued into hopelessness. Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.”
“People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.”
“Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.”
“I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.”
“My optimism is grounded in two worlds, myself and what is about me. I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true.”
“Donald Trump is an "America first" guy. He said, "We protect everyone else's borders but our own."”
“I think Donald Trump is gonna do great. Because I've worked with him and known him a long time. He's a guy who is not programmed to fail.”
“We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.”
“These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.”
“Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.”
“Anything’s possible, almost.”
“Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.”
“We live in a free country. While patriotism is important, liberty of thought and liberty of expression are even more important.”
“The great # conversion called for by Jesus is to move from belonging to the world to belonging to God.”
“No fight is hopeless till it has been fought.”
“The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. - Lord Commander Mormont”
“I've been very lucky. There were times when I was afraid I would never sell another book, but I never doubted I'd write another book.”
“You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.”
“Bear Island knows no king but the King in the North, whose name is STARK.”