“One of the great attractions of patriotism”
Optimistic feeling
Optimistic Quotes — page 51 of 204
“When a lot of things are going the wrong way for a country, for a people, when you can't really think of anything worse than a war, you always try to take life on the brighter side and that's how I grew up with my parents.”
“Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.”
“The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces.”
“You'll see it when you believe it.”
“I settle into their pace. The uniform pounding of feet in my ears and the homogeneity of the people around me makes me believe that I could choose this. I could be subsumed into Abnegation’s hive mind, projecting always outward.”
“Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.”
“To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the purpose of providing for the general welfare.' For the laying of taxes is the power, and the general welfare the purpose for which the power is to be exercised. They are not to lay taxes ad libitum for any purpose they please; but only to pay the debts or provide for the welfare of the Union.”
“Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years.”
“Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands look for something, will find it.”
“I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure --will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets, to the stars, and beyond, carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage --and his noble essential decency. This I believe with all my heart.”
“And if the City falls and one survives he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile he shall be the City”
“He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage.”
“Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure”
“As a nation, I believe we've acquired faith in ourselves.”
“Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.”
“I am interested in garnering the white vote, and the black vote, and the Latin vote, and the Asian vote, and the business vote, and the labor vote.”
“Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.”
“The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.”
“The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.”