Quotes about Optimist

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness. Votes: 4

Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes. Votes: 3

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled. Votes: 3

Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white. Votes: 3

An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. Votes: 3

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Votes: 3

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out. Votes: 3

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. Votes: 3

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. Votes: 3

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. Votes: 3

Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backwards after taking a step forwards is not a disaster. It's a cha-cha. Votes: 3

O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing. Votes: 3

Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play. Votes: 3

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right. Votes: 3

Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look ahead. Votes: 3

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind. Votes: 3

How happy is the Optimist / To whom life shows its sunny side / His horse may lose, his ship may list, / But he always sees the funny side. Votes: 3

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist. Votes: 2

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. Votes: 2

Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists Votes: 2

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. Votes: 2

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. Votes: 2

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. Votes: 2

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. Votes: 2

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! Votes: 2

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? Votes: 2

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. Votes: 2

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. Votes: 2

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. Votes: 2

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events. Votes: 2

Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label. Votes: 2

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. Votes: 2

I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death. Votes: 2

Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist. Votes: 1

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat. Votes: 1

I'm quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley. Votes: 1

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer. Votes: 1

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Votes: 1

I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical. Votes: 1

I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will. Votes: 1

In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination. Votes: 1

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective. Votes: 1

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. Votes: 1

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day. Votes: 1

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after. Votes: 1

The phenomenal thing that happened to me is that I was able to create two memorable men: one is the ultimate optimist, Rocky, and then you have Rambo, the ultimate pessimist. You're going to always be remembered for them, no matter what you do. Votes: 1

It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.' Votes: 1

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven. Votes: 1

Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel. Votes: 1

The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success. Votes: 1

I'm a recovering optimist. Votes: 0

Be a tough-minded optimist. Votes: 0

I may be an optimist. Votes: 0

I'm an optimist at heart. Votes: 0

I've always been an optimist. Votes: 0

I am fundamentally an optimist. Votes: 0

I'm an un-healable positive optimist. Votes: 0

I'm nothing if not an optimist. Votes: 0

I'm a humanist and an optimist. Votes: 0

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist. Votes: 0

But I'm only a cockeyed optimist. Votes: 0

I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful. Votes: 0

...fry me an optimist for breakfast. Votes: 0

Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive. Votes: 0

The optimist regards the future as uncertain. Votes: 0

Now, I happen to be an optimist. Votes: 0

I'm too cynical to be an optimist. Votes: 0

I am by nature a worried optimist ... Votes: 0

The optimist is a pessimist with a plan Votes: 0

An optimist sees the oportunity in every difficulty. Votes: 0

A pessimist is just an optimist with experience. Votes: 0

In choosing a partner, always pick the optimist. Votes: 0

I would say Im an optimist by nature. Votes: 0

I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think. Votes: 0

I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity. Votes: 0

I weirdly do consider myself an optimist about love. Votes: 0

I feel like I'm a relentless, pragmatic, determined optimist. Votes: 0

I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose. Votes: 0

Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic. Votes: 0

I'm not an optimist; I'm a prisoner of hope. Votes: 0

In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist. Votes: 0

I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself. Votes: 0

An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole. Votes: 0

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information. Votes: 0

I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist. Votes: 0

I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities. Votes: 0

I have always been an optimist, perhaps even too much. Votes: 0

I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism. Votes: 0

The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole. Votes: 0

Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality. Votes: 0

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. Votes: 0

Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count. Votes: 0

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts. Votes: 0

I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat. Votes: 0

I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope. Votes: 0

An optimist and a gentleman, I like that in my men. Votes: 0

I remain an eternal optimist about love. I believe in love. Votes: 0

The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay. Votes: 0

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. Votes: 0

An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse Votes: 0

I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope. Votes: 0

Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist. Votes: 0

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. Votes: 0

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. Votes: 0

I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing Votes: 0

If you weren't an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect. Votes: 0

I consider myself a natural optimist. I like the dark side of things. Votes: 0

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better. Votes: 0

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right. Votes: 0

I have to be an optimist and say that it might get better. Votes: 0

A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems. Votes: 0

An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock. Votes: 0

I am an optimist and I always think the good will come out Votes: 0

We are entering an increasingly dangerous period of our history. But I'm an optimist. Votes: 0

An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to. Votes: 0

That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground. Votes: 0

I'm a big believer that there's a reason for everything. I'm a hopeless optimist. Votes: 0

Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you. Votes: 0

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed Votes: 0

I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else. Votes: 0

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed. Votes: 0

I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts. Votes: 0

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal. Votes: 0

It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist. Votes: 0

I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist. Votes: 0

People say 'Bill, are you an optimist?' And I say, 'I hope so.' Votes: 0

Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.) Votes: 0

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist. Votes: 0

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow. Votes: 0

To the optimist, obstacles aare challenges, roadblocks are inspirations, and problems are invitations to achievement. Votes: 0

A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes. Votes: 0

I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you. Votes: 0

Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope. Votes: 0

I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. Votes: 0

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. Votes: 0

When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing. Votes: 0

I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative. Votes: 0

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Votes: 0

By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am. Votes: 0

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are. Votes: 0

I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story. Votes: 0

The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer. Votes: 0

I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature. Votes: 0

I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change Votes: 0

It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people. Votes: 0

A pessimist finds the darkness around the light but an optimist becomes the light in the darkness. Votes: 0

I'm an optimist - I feel like an amazing part of life is that at any moment. Votes: 0

I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change. Votes: 0

The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason. Votes: 0

I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy. Votes: 0

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right Votes: 0

How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake? Votes: 0

I am an optimist. If I ever quit being an optimist, I guess I'll become a Republican. Votes: 0

An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it. Votes: 0

In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse. Votes: 0

To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches. Votes: 0

I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic. Votes: 0

I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind. Votes: 0

I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win. Votes: 0

An optimist is a man who sees everything half as bad and twice as good as it is. Votes: 0

I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself. Votes: 0

I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved. Votes: 0

And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me. Votes: 0

I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams. Votes: 0

I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument. Votes: 0

At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass Votes: 0

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. Votes: 0

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it. Votes: 0

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist. Votes: 0

The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision. Votes: 0

He had high hopes for society, and though his hopes were too often dashed, he remained a raging optimist. Votes: 0

An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice. Votes: 0

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. Votes: 0

The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall. Votes: 0

The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each. Votes: 0

Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better. Votes: 0

You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one Votes: 0

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. Votes: 0

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. Votes: 0

In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. Votes: 0

To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move! Votes: 0

It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed. Votes: 0

I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect. Votes: 0

an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet. Votes: 0

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else. Votes: 0

An optimist sees a failure as an opportunity to excel, but a pessimist sees a failure as an opportunity to quit. Votes: 0

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. Votes: 0

I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind. Votes: 0

Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country. Votes: 0

A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist. Votes: 0

Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist--while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist! Votes: 0

An optimist is presented with a problem and sees an opportunity. A pessimist is presented with an opportunity and sees a problem. Votes: 0

I am an eternal optimist. Being happy is a choice. And you can make that choice every day, if you want to. Votes: 0

I'm an incurable optimist, and I'm a great believer in never looking back. Life is too short, and new challenges are exciting. Votes: 0

The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!' Votes: 0

For the record, I am not a nut. I am an optimist. That's exactly like a nut except with a better attitude. Votes: 0

You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer. Votes: 0

I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist. Votes: 0

Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far? Votes: 0

The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. Votes: 0

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness. Votes: 0

I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself. Votes: 0

The optimist, as you probably know, is a person who, when he wears out his shoes, just figures he's back on his feet. Votes: 0

Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt. Votes: 0

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. Votes: 0

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist. Votes: 0

A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full. Votes: 0

An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country. Votes: 0

I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations. Votes: 0

I've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist. Votes: 0

Leave no room for fear and excuses. Be strong in spirit and possess unwavering convictions. Choose to be an optimist and commit to succeed. Votes: 0

Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm. Votes: 0

PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. Votes: 0

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic. Votes: 0

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity. Votes: 0

Here's hoping all the days ahead, won't be as bitter as the one's behind you. Be an optimist instead, and somehow happiness will find you. Votes: 0

It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance? Votes: 0

I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening. Votes: 0

To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair. To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back. Votes: 0

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist. Votes: 0

If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more. Votes: 0

I'm an incurable optimist and a go-getter - it's in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous. Votes: 0

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist. Votes: 0

I do believe, in the long term, we will either get back to the principles that built America or we lose this country. And I'm an optimist. Votes: 0

I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world. Votes: 0

I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance. Votes: 0

I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the contrary, is pre-eminently an optimist. Votes: 0

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be. Votes: 0

There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway? Votes: 0

I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds. Votes: 0

I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it. Votes: 0

Like all biologists I simply acknowledge the gravity of the current situation. There are scenarios under which things work out well and to that extent I'm a cautious optimist. Votes: 0

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist. Votes: 0

The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives. Votes: 0

The political writer, then is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives. Votes: 0

I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist. Votes: 0

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals. Votes: 0

The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are. Votes: 0

An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere. They learn from mistakes and failures, and are not afraid to fail again. Votes: 0

To be a member of the Labor Party is to be an optimist - optimistic about the future of Australia, optimistic about the ability of government to make a difference. Votes: 0

I am neither a pessimist nor an optimist. I am a realist, and the reality in Iraq is that it has been very hard and it continues to be hard. Votes: 0

Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that bad and are bound to get better anyway. Votes: 0

The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel. Votes: 0

Ibsen is at heart an optimist. He could not close his life's work with a note of negation. When We Dead Awaken is a clear, ringing call to the future. Votes: 0

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that. Votes: 0

My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window washers heard him say, 'So Far, so good.' Votes: 0

Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. The pessimist tends to hold back people of vision from pushing ahead. Votes: 0

The most radical political act there is is to be an optimist. The most radical political act there is is to believe that, if I change, other people will follow suit. Votes: 0

I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant. Votes: 0

The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times. Votes: 0

I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too." Votes: 0

I am a natural optimist but there were times when (it seemed like) I was doing nothing but adding up on the back of envelope what I had to pay this month. Votes: 0

Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay. Votes: 0

I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too. Votes: 0

A dangerous fire retardant chemical is being found in women's breast milk. My wife's breastfeeding, but you know, you gotta be an optimist. I'm like, well, maybe it's making my child fireproof. Votes: 0

The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way. Votes: 0

I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad. Votes: 0

I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head. I think that's the dialectic we all need to be in. Votes: 0

Nothing that's ever happened has taken away the optimist in me. It's always, "Whatever-let's go to Disneyland." Yes, I have my bleak, tortured-artist moments, but you have to hold on to what's positive. Votes: 0

Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship. Votes: 0

I'm basically an optimist because I do think there's this historical modernisation process, and by and large it's been very beneficial to people. But there are blips. History doesn't proceed in a linear way. Votes: 0

I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference... I am an optimist who worries a lot. Votes: 0

Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. Votes: 0

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way. Votes: 0

I think of myself as a doom person. I'm a worrier. But I like the idea of being an optimist. Maybe I'm the kind of optimist who deep down knows it's not going to work. Votes: 0

I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart. Votes: 0

It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed. Votes: 0