A Quote by Fay Vincent

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

Fay Vincent

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Hopeful Optimistic

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Fay Vincent
American - Lawyer
Born: May 29, 1938

I'm a very hopeful person. I mean, I'm an optimistic person, sometimes stupidly optimistic.

John Lithgow

When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.

John Lewis

I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.

Eddie Vedder

The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.

Chaka Fattah

I'm not always optimistic, but I am hopeful.

Greg Boyle

Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you can't be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing. So while I'm not optimistic, I'm always very hopeful.

William Sloane Coffin

Be hopeful. Be optimistic. Never lose that sense of hope.

John Lewis

So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.

Jack Layton

I think all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic.

John Lewis

I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic.

Helen Suzman

My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

Deana Carter

There is not a new hopeful, optimistic vision of the future that I am currently aware of. Certainly, not one that has penetrated pop culture awareness in the way 'Star Trek' has.

Ronald D. Moore

My sweet spot, the stuff I like the most, is hopeful melancholy. Optimistic melancholy.

Paul Rust

I'm very hopeful. I am very optimistic about the future.

John Lewis

Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

Jack Layton

In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I'm very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.

John Lewis