Stephen Fry Quotes

That is the true genius of America-a faith in simple dreams, an insistence on small miracles.

We Americans have always felt a special kinship with the future.

I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great

In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.

In Americana, the facts and the dreams seem to be all the same to me.

I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is. I got the chutzpa or whatever you want to say to believe that if I write a really good about it, it's going to make a difference.

Americans are not afraid of the future.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.

Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.

Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.

The American is by nature optimistic.

Beyond independence, Americans had no consensus on what being an American meant.

America is a nation with many flaws that only the stupid would deny, but with hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.

Optimism - even, and perhaps especially in the face of difficulty - has long been an American hallmark.

I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.

There's no question I am an idealist, which is another way of saying 'I am an American.'

I don't really know what Americans are like. I've no idea. I know a few things about them. In my imagination, they have warm peachy hearts, whereas the English have horrible spiteful withered hearts - success in England inspires envy - in America, it inspires hope.

What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism.

I have never lost faith in America's essential goodness and greatness.

God bless the America we are trying to create.

I think America is still a bright, shining city on the hill - not because we're perfect but because we struggle in our imperfections every day.

I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head. I think that's the dialectic we all need to be in.

It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition of Europe which enabled us to seize his gift.