Catherine Tate Quotes

I'm such a fan of the glass being half full.

I'm not by nature a cynical person. But sometimes your expectations are different from reality.

There is a good side to every situation.

You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.

Pull the good out of it and not worry about the drawbacks.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

The optimist says, ‘this is the best of all possible worlds.’ The pessimist considers that statement for a while and then says, ‘Yes, you are right.’

I only take the positives, and I don't take the negatives.

I'm counting every silver lining I can get.

Our thoughts about an event can have a dramatic effect on how we go through the event itself. When our expectations are low, it's easy to be pleasantly surprised. When they're not, we're vulnerable to painful disappointment. Because of this, many people spend a good deal of effort trying to avoid developing high hopes about anything.

I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

'I know this is going to end bad, but I'm going to pretend it's going to end good.' My life's philosophy.

Most of us...are naturally more sanguine and hopeful than logic would justify. We seem to be so constituted that in the absence of any facts to go upon we are happy and self-satisfied; so that the effect of experience is continually to contract our hopes and aspirations

Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.

A lot of life is about trying to turn bad experiences into something good. Usually if you work at it, you can figure out a way to do it. Even our worst misfortunes are gifts.

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

I'm not Pollyanna.

I try to make everything a positive, even if it comes off negative.

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

The grass is always greener on the other side, unless Vince Russo has been there in which case the grass is most likely dead.