Ian Mcewan Quotes

Things will get better - despite our efforts to improve them.

I want to show you an optimistic sign that things are beginning to turn around.

The worst is likely to be behind us.

What people want is a sense of a better future to come.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.

In a phrase: I always hope it keeps getting better.

I think we just need to keep moving forward in a positive way.

A lot of great things are going on. In many ways, the past 30 years have been the best in world history. But we can do much better. I prefer the word hope over optimism.

Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing - but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears.

I think, you know, the people that have seen my work, I think it speaks to the possibility of getting better, and, I'm sorry, I'm still on the last caller.

I feel like I came through this year stronger and wiser, and I can go into 2015 in a much better place.

I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call myself an optimist. I want to say that I've always been full of hope. I've never lost that. I have a lot of hope for this country and for the entire world. . .

I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that every-thing will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive.

Look forward. Turn what has been done into a better path.

Hope has never trickled down, it has always sprung up.

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.

Let's keep refusing to accept the world as it is and insisting on building the world we dream of. Don't let the haters have the last word.

. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better.

Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.