A Quote by Roger Scruton
I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised.
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Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.
One of the questions I often get asked is, "Were you surprised that Trump won?" I always answer the same way: "I was surprised, I am surprised and I will never stop being surprised."
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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.
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I just wanted to make it clear that I was saying that the possibility is there and I would've been fine with it, the network would have been fine with it, but we ultimately didn't do that. I can make it official - Daryl Dixon is actually straight.
Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look ahead.
Of course you can never say zero possibility or 100 per cent possibility in football, because you never know what will happen because football changes so rapidly.
I'm an optimist. I have always been, and I will continue to be. So I believe there's always a possibility of transforming or changing or doing something different.
I am an optimist. If I ever quit being an optimist, I guess I'll become a Republican.
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.
And our pessimists think this has taken too long. Our pessimists believe that too many Americans have died. Our pessimists believe that we have lost the war.
There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me.
Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.
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