Mark Twain Quotes

It's a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

Monaco was my first race of the season and I spoke with a number of people and all seemed to be very optimistic.

It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.

I'm not as optimistic as Gene Roddenberry was. I fall somewhere in the middle. But as a romantic, I like to think things are going to get bigger rather than worse.

I'm not any different than anybody else. But I do see a world, for me, that's getting better and better, not worse and worse. And I believe that world peace is coming quicker than we think. And I believe that people are not only yearning for it but will see a way to get it and help that way to come sooner. And it's going to be beautiful.

optimism is a disease

The hope of science is the perfection of the human race. The hope of theology is the salvation of a few, and the damnation of almost everybody.

It must not be true when the left tell us what they really want is to help and assist and elevate the little guy, 'cause they don't elevate anybody. The people I'm talking about try to make things fair by punishing and penalizing people at the top. They seek equality and fairness by reaching for the lowest common denominator they can find. Equally shared misery seems to be what their utopia is.

Oh now that's a blueprint for an impossibly rosy future

But while I'm realistic about our challenges, I'm optimistic about our future. There are a few things, and if we do them, we're going to have the greatest era in our history. And I have detailed what those things are specifically.

Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous.

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

Education is the single most important job of the human race.

I want to be representative of my race-the human race. I have a chance to show how kind we can be, how intelligent and generous we can be.

Excited. In a good way. I've been training my whole life for this.

I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate. As if the sorrows and stupidities of the human condition could overwhelm me, now that I realize what we all are. And if only everybody could realize this! But it cannot be explained. There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.

Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.

Heal the World, make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race, there are people dying, if you care enough for the living, make a better place for you and for me.

Too often we jump to the conclusion that something is impossible simply because we cannot see the solution. No one knows enough to be a pessimist.

I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people. I crazily see the way out of a terrible situation. I crazily try to be the diplomat. If there are two warring factions in my life, I want them to agree to disagree at the very least.

And I am an optimistic person. I guess if you want to try to find something to be pessimistic about, you can find it, no matter how hard you look, you know?

Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones

There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race.

Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

She's a wonderful, wonderful person, and we're looking to a happy and wonderful night - ah, life.