A Quote by Madeleine Albright

I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference... I am an optimist who worries a lot.

Madeleine Albright

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Madeleine Albright
American - Statesman
Born: May 15, 1937

I'm a fatalist.... I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding.

Arthur Miller

I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.

George MacDonald

I think if I were reading to a grandchild, I might read Tolstoy's War and Peace. They would learn about Russia, they would learn about history, they would learn about human nature. They would learn about, "Can the individual make a difference or is it great forces?" Tolstoy is always battling with those large issues. Mostly, a whole world would come alive for them through that book.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.

Bette Lord

I had always been a fatalist about my career. What was to be was to be.

Randolph Scott

But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome.

Tony Blair

I'm a fatalist.

Lech Walesa

I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do.

Oded Fehr

I'm a fatalist. I believe things happen for a reason, that you attract people and situations that are meant to fulfil your path.

Isabel Lucas

I'm not a fatalist; even if I were, what could I do about it?

Emo Philips

nothing makes one so easily a fatalist as indifference.

Sylvia Thompson

Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.

John Bayley

I have become a fatalist in life, so I don't try to set goals.

Ajith Kumar

Or maybe I'd do what I always do - hang out and see what develops. Fatalist to the core.

Dennis Lehane

There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history's rule, nor is it a passive surrender to the status quo. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one -- an activity that occurs most naturally, most often in the reading/writing world we live in. Accessible as it is, this particular kind of peace warrants vigilance.

Toni Morrison

A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.

Beau Willimon

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