Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Henry Rollins Quote: 'I am an optimist because I ...'

Related Quotes

schladming lake nature landscape
I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.


Henry Rollins
Tags: Change Like Just
I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
A. S. Byatt
Tags: Change You About
I am not very good at sticking to outlines, and I double back all the time to revisit scenes and change things.
Holly Black
Tags: Time Good Change
There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
Vera Farmiga
Tags: Women Change Who
prato piazza dolomites cadini
If you want to change things, it requires bravery.


Naftali Bennett
Tags: Change You Want
overcast sky clouds cumulus nature
I am an eternal optimist. I always say 'Yihyeh Tov' or 'It'll get better.'


Itzhak Perlman
Tags: Get Always Am
dolomites mountains italy
I am, by nature, an optimist.


Martin Heinrich
Tags: Nature Am I Am
clouds dramatic cumulus sky
I am, if nothing else, an optimist.


Mike Barnicle
Tags: Am I Am Nothing
There are those who simply want to live their lives, and feel they cannot live the way they want to in Iran. Others are ideologically motivated: They will stay no matter what and try to change things.
Asghar Farhadi
Tags: Change Who Want
wimbach ramsau forest sunny nature
As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary.


Eileen Myles
I am a very private person. No one ever knows anything about me as I don't think it is necessary. I tell people as much as I want them to know about me.
Priyanka Chopra
Tags: People Me About
I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people; you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul.
Ken Livingstone
lago federa dolomites nature lake
Change in all things is sweet.


Aristotle
fiss ladis tyrol austria mountains
I don't want people to know how I am feeling because it makes you more vulnerable.


Logan Browning
I'm in politics to change things - if possible, for the better. I was a journalist for a long time, but I had a kind of midlife crisis, and I decided I needed to do something to get on the pitch and stop endlessly kicking over other peoples' sandcastles.
Boris Johnson
I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.
Michael Phelps
Tags: Change Like Want
I am a better listener than talker - but that's partly because I believe rows are often caused by saying things you haven't thought through properly.
Greg Wise
Tags: You Because Than
ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.
Robert Sternberg
beach stones sand sea sky clouds
Things don't have to change the world to be important.


Steve Jobs
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
Tags: About Them Will