Caustically Optimistic Quotes & Sayings

To be fucking human, to not put too fine a point on it, and Daniel Boone can kiss my ass. — Terry Pratchett

Be true to your old dreams so that our world will not lose hope. — Miguel Serrano

It is necessary to pray to Him, with a longing Heart. — Ramakrishna

Writing a biography is a delicate - not a reckless - process, where the end result, if done properly, is simply the truth revealed. This delicate and intricate research process has never before been done for Bob Crane, a man with a story worth telling. — Carol M. Ford

Sometimes my hands they don't feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold. — James Vincent McMorrow

We learned that orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names. They are easier to ignore before you see their faces. It is easier to pretend they're not real before you hold them in your arms. But once you do, everything changes. — David Platt

The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile one thing on top of another, without caring if each thing was crushed in turn. People forgot that the human soul can enjoy a thing most when there is time to think about it and be thankful for it. And by crowding things together they lost the sense of surprise; and surprise is the secret of joy. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Providence has ordained that I should be the greatest liberator of humanity. I am freeing man from the restraints of an intelligence that has taken charge, from the dirty and degrading self-mortification of a false vision called conscience and morality, and from the demands of a freedom and independence which only a very few can bear. — Adolf Hitler

Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language. — Joseph De Maistre

Something tells me that Alex has some demons and I can tell you from experience that those suckers don't go down easy. — Mary J. Williams

Having talent is fantastic. Having confidence is even more important. — Robin Sharma

It's a bittersweet feeling because this [filming in Chronicles of Narnia] has been a part of my life for six years - from the age of 15 to 21. For anybody that's a big growing up phase, especially in the unique experience of Narnia. But I feel honoured to have been a part of it but the tools I learned from Narnia I'm now taking forward to my next project. — Skandar Keynes

That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it's not like you actually love getting up there and showing off. — Jacqueline McKenzie

Yoko Ono, quite simply, did things that John Lennon did not dare. — Philip Norman