Optimism quotes

“Everything happens for the best. You'll never know if you don't try.”
John Hannah - James

“I didn't invent the rainy day, man. I just own the best umbrella.”
Jimmy Fallon - Dennis Hope

“It wouldn't be terrible at all. It would be a miracle, not to mention the money I'd save on epsom salts and ace bandages.”

Ellen Greene - Audrey

- Candice Paluso: Aren't you guys gonna get really bored out here if society doesn't collapse?
- Donald: I wouldn't worry about that. Wes says society is heading for the big "flush". And we're going to be the ones who are clinging to the rim while everything else goes down.
Kristen Vigard - Candice Paluso
Robin Williams - Donald Quinelle

“- Moe: This picture business is tougher to get into to than I figured.
- Larry: Don't worry, a bad beginning is a good ending.”
Moe Howard - Moe
Larry Fine - Larry

“Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But still, you find reasons to keep living.”

“- Man: How come my dishes are dirty?
- Tony: Dirty?
- Man: Dirty.
- Tony: Well, them poor dumb little bastards. They never learned the power of positive thought.”
Ron Thompson - Tony

“I'll be all right now that I know where I stand. Yes, I'll be fine. Last night for the first time I didn't have to count sheep. I slept like a guilty man.”

Alan Curtis - Scott Henderson

“We've got to laugh in this world, or else we'd shoot ourselves.”
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier

“- Balto: Maybe it's because your looking at the bowl half-empty. See this it's the polar ice caps.
- Jenna: Balto those are broken bottles and they're not half-empty they're all empty.”
Kevin Bacon - Balto
Bridget Fonda - Jenna

“We'll be alright. As long as we're together, we'll be alright.”

Nehemiah Persoff - Papa Mousekewitz

“- Zak: I'm positive.
- Batty Koda: Only fools are positive.”
Jonathan Ward - Zak
Robin Williams - Batty Koda

“- O'Dell: What are the chances a bunch of kids from Coalwood actually winning the national science fair?
- Homer: A million to one, O'Dell.
- O'Dell: That good? Well, why didn't you say so?”
Chad Lindberg - O'Dell
Jake Gyllenhaal - Homer Hickam

“Whatever happens, I can't wind up any worse off than I am now.”
Vivian Lanko - Elizabeth Warren

“- Brett: Maybe tomorrow it will be our world again.
- Bill Robinson: I don't know. Was it ever?”
Laura Harrington - Brett
Emilio Estevez - Bill Robinson

“At least I have potential. It's a wonderful thing, potential. Because as long as I don't do anything, I'll still have it.”
Penelope Ann Miller - Rebecca

- Henri: Are you ready to go find your family?
- Fievel Mousekewitz: Yes!
- Henri: Chantal! Take my little friend to Immigration. You will find your family there. Everyone goes through Immigration. I would take you there myself, but then I would never finish my statue.
- Fievel Mousekewitz: Henri, you said "never"!
- Henri: Oh, so I did!

Christopher Plummer - Henri
Phillip Glasser - Fievel Mousekewitz

“My mother's always telling me I gotta control my anger, channel my energy into something more positive. Makes me want to slap her silly.”
Ned Bellamy - Sidney

“I'll tell you something. Seeing you in love reminded me of what it's like. I never thought I could believe in all this a second time.”

Richard Kiley - Arthur Axelrod

“- Jack Leary: Nothing is alright!
- John Leary: Then we're gonna make it alright.”
Robert J. Steinmiller Jr. - Jack Leary
Danny DeVito - John Leary

“Look, if something works for me I stick with it.”
John Candy - Freddie Bauer

“Unless we're going to have a nuclear attack of some kind, it's hard to imagine what else could go wrong.”
Kathy Bates - Maurine Collier

“Absitively posolutely!”
Billy Joel - Dodger

“- Claudia: You know, maybe next year will be better for you.
- Russell Terziak: Hey, yeah - or worse.”
Holly Hunter - Claudia
David Strathairn - Russell Terziak

“- Piggy: What we need around here is positive people, not people trying to scare people!
- Jack Merridew: What we don't need around here is you shitbrain!”
Danuel Pipoly - Piggy
Chris Furrh - Jack Merridew