Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.
I may be an optimist.
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.
I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.
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.
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.
I'm an optimist at heart.
I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.
The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.
It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.
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.
I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.
Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.
My father enabled me to really believe in myself. And yet I've heard very similar stories - from many, many people. It's the way he approached his life. The way he approached his life - he was the eternal optimist. He was the most optimistic person that I've ever known. Even in the face of this diagnosis with cancer, he was filled with optimism about what he could do and what he could accomplish.
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.
. . . fry me an optimist for breakfast.
I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.
I am by nature a worried optimist.
Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
I'm an un-healable positive optimist.