He and Reagan were not at all alike, because Reagan is an optimist and Dick Nixon wasn't. Yet in some ways they were alike. Neither really liked to talk on the telephone, for instance. And, in a lot of respects, both of them were very much loners.
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
I am an optimist.
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.
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe that the horse and I can do it and that we will do it. And I am always shocked when we actually don't do it. If the analytical mind ever overrode that optimist in me, I'd be in some serious trouble.
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.
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 not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.
I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.
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.
The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I keep showing up and saying, 'No, there must be a way for me to live in this world,' that shows I'm an eternal optimist.
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.
I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think.
All my life, I've been sort of a professional optimist, full of good cheer about matters political and journalistic. I always thought I'd get older and become an unnaturally cheerful old fart. But it's not happening.
I'm an incurable optimist, and I'm a great believer in never looking back. Life is too short, and new challenges are exciting.
In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.
I am an eternal optimist. I always say 'Yihyeh Tov' or 'It'll get better.'
I'm an optimist.
I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
I would say I'm an optimist by nature.
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
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.'
I am, if nothing else, an optimist.
It takes a great deal of strength to be an optimist.
And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.
I have never met an intelligent optimist. That is not to say I think pessimism makes you intelligent, but I have always felt like an Old Testament Jeremiah or Cassandra from ancient Greece. I want to run down the streets warning people.
As a Liverpool fan, I'm an eternal optimist because of what we did in Istanbul in 2005.
Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we've got until 2014. I'm an optimist.
