Alexandre Dumas Quotes

The optimist regards the future as uncertain.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope.

I've always been optimistic - I always expect the sun to come out.

to hope was to expect

We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities.

I don't have any expectations of anything.

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.

It may be that the seemingly intrinsic attraction that past time has for me is merely a desire for escapism, as I look out at the nation and world with little optimism.

I'm always optimistic.

I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.

I am an optimistic lady.

People don't believe in positive changes anymore.

There's always hope, and there's always despair.

Our choice is between cynicism and hope.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?

Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.

The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?" It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: "Nothing.

Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.

I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.