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… — Nicholas Hoult Copy Share Image
I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but as we know, that's not always… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis… — Vinton Cerf Copy Share Image
I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change — Ron Silver Copy Share Image
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. — William Golding Copy Share Image
“I'm used to being invisible these days. But I couldn't get what she'd said out of my head, about ordinary people doing… — Sarah Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed… — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff,… — Amanda Holden Copy Share Image
I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but that's not always true, just because… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I asked her, "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" She looked at her watch and said, "I'm optimistic." "Then I have… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
But America was built by optimists. Optimists like my friend Amanda, who recently started a small business. When she went to buy… — Eva Longoria Copy Share Image
Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Like all biologists I simply acknowledge the gravity of the current situation. There are scenarios under which things work out well and… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
