But optimism foundered over the course of 2013, and frustration soared.

Robert Wright on optimism

So there's the optimism.

The Realism of Global Optimism

This fills our hearts with optimism.

Larry Brilliant makes the case for optimism

Optimism is merely a lack of information.

Instead, there was a litany of astonishing optimism.

But there's also a wonderful case for optimism.

Mr. Maurer (Switzerland) (spoke in French) The major developments that have taken place over the past year make it possible to look to the future with prudent optimism.

Once those limits were removed, Erdoğan s governments embraced economic populism and authoritarian politics. Investors apparent optimism following the AKP s victory recalls Einstein s definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome.

Perhaps we should say the same thing about optimism.

But now let's look at the case for optimism.

Certainly, nothing can give you more optimism than that.

Optimism is sometimes characterized as a belief, an intellectual posture.

And I therefore believe that optimism is what drives architecture forward.

There is room for optimism, but much hard work lies ahead.

There was currently a sense of cautious optimism on the ground.

Secondly, we need to aim off of the optimism of the generals.

All in all, there is room for optimism, but we must be realistic.

Recently, Obama has introduced optimism at a sort of time of global financial crisis.

I leave here today with a profound sense of optimism for the days ahead.

In fact if you look at world history you can see some reasons for optimism.

Those elections heralded a new dawn of optimism, and inspired confidence in our democratic transition.

Optimism is like the lamp of hope. Pessimism or negativity is like a drug of sorrow.

I welcomed the new momentum with cautious optimism, aware there would likely be setbacks and delays.

Mr. Kazykhanov (Kazakhstan) said that the recent summit gave ground for a degree of optimism and called for the full and early implementation of the decisions and recommendations of the conferences and summits held over the past five years.

All of these models assume outcomes on the basis of existing policies. Their consistent over optimism about these policies impact on economic growth validates pursuing them, and enables governments to claim that their remedies are working, when they clearly are not.

So anyway, today we'll talk about architecture a little bit, within the subject of creation and optimism.

And if you put creation and optimism together, you've got two choices that you can talk about.

Despite the doubts and the difficult challenges ahead, the hope and optimism of the past months remain.

The latest developments in the Middle East allow us to maintain a certain level of reserved optimism.

So the key question now is how the world s leaders will respond. There are grounds for cautious optimism.

In the early 1970 s, the flush of technological optimism was over, the Vietnam War was a disaster, societies were in turmoil, and economies were stagnating. Rachel Carson s 1962 book Silent Spring had raised fears about pollution and launched the modern environmental movement

But instead a relationship that can promote respect and hope and this optimism that together we can move forward.

There is a tough road ahead if we are to turn optimism into reality. I see three key milestones.

We welcome with particular optimism the message delivered to the Council by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Haiti.

Another cause for optimism is the promise of the reform of the management and budget of the United Nations.

And I think, as you'll see, there's reasons for optimism, because I believe that the best is yet to come.

The independent expert perceived some calm and optimism to resolving the Sool and Sanaag border conflict between Somaliland and Puntland .

The coming months of campaigning for the US presidency will be spent in petty brawling over what should be cut. The example of recent weeks gives us no cause for optimism that US legislators will rise above partisan politics and ask themselves what is best for America.

He came away with feelings of cautious hope and optimism, but also with the sense that setbacks and delays are inevitable.

In those debates, Argentina and Honduras, which were members of the Council at the time, were filled with optimism and hope.

Today we begin the work of the 2005 session at a time when the international circumstances offer little ground for optimism.

Argentina and Brazil welcome those auspicious and positive developments, which allow us to entertain a degree of optimism about future prospects.