I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.
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. '
I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think.
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.
PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.
I remain an eternal optimist about love. I believe in love.
I have to be an optimist and say that it might get better.
And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.
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.
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.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
The optimist regards the future as uncertain.
On one hand, I'm an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I'm a pessimistic optimist. But while there's life, there's still hope, and I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if I didn't think there was still hope.
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.
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.
An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock.
A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.
I'm a technological optimist in that I do believe that technology will provide solutions that will allow the world in 2050 to support 9 billion people at an acceptable standard of living. But I'm a political pessimist in that I am concerned about whether the science will be appropriately applied.
I am fundamentally an optimist.