The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'
A. N. Wilson
In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
Abbie Cornish
Climbing in the Olympics would be my dream, but I'm not so optimistic that it will make it in 2020.
Adam Ondra
I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.
Adam Savage
Be the optimist in the room.
Adena Friedman
My kids are resilient, I'm resilient, and I guess I am an optimist.
Adina Porter
I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.
Ahmed Ben Bella
I am overall optimistic about India's growth.
Ajay Piramal
I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.
Al Gore
I think there's a lot of interesting stuff on TV. I feel much more optimistic about TV than I do about movies. There will always be good movies but I think, for the most part, it's always going to be a huge fight to get those movies made. TV is the best place to be as a writer, I think.
Alan Ball
Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person.
Alana Stewart
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.
Albert Schweitzer
We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, that he will be confirmed.
Alberto Gonzales
I'm optimistic but I'm also not stupid.
Aldous Harding
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
Aldous Huxley
The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity. So every night I come on Madrid TV and read a piece of good news.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
At the end of 2000, most investors were optimistic that a return to quick gains could not be far off.
Alex Berenson
Today, I don't have any psychological scars, because I am a realist and an optimist. After all, I can't lose my legs twice.
Alex Zanardi
Live constructively and live optimistically.
Alfred A. Montapert
We need to stop being so profligate with fossil fuels, to rein back climate change and protect biodiversity. We need to work together, globally, and I'm optimistic that we will.
Alice Roberts
I'm an optimist. I'm hopeful.
I am an optimist of the first order.
I'm a generally optimistic person.
One mistake, your winning streak is over and you've got to start over again. But you have to be optimistic in life, and I find that it's also beautiful, because if things are too predictable, that sucks, too, right?
I am always optimistic.
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.
It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Jamaican-Americans - they feel American. It's a huge success story.
I wanted to do something about a really optimistic character: a character who was so optimistic, no one could burst her bubble.
I'm more optimistic than most.
I've been criticised for being an eternal optimist.
I'm an optimist about NAFTA merely being updated.
I'm an un-healable positive optimist.
I see myself as, one, an optimist, and two, a member of a huge family, and that's important to me.
I remain, however, fairly optimistic for the future of period drama because it's just such a popular thing.
I am super optimistic about the near-term prospects of AI because every time there is a technological disruption, it gives us the opportunity of making the world a little different.
Perhaps America works like this: Presidencies swing, as reactions to each other, like a pendulum. My optimistic belief is it is how we keep our country in balance.
I love America - I'm not saying that I love Americans. I don't know. It just seems a bit more optimistic. I don't know - in England, if you do something successful, people hate you. Whereas in America, if you do something successful, people will pat you on the back and say, 'Hey, well done.' People are jealous and negative in England.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is such a powerful book, and 'Love in the Time of Cholera' is so strangely, brilliantly optimistic.
I am pessimistically optimistic.
I remember when cable happened and everyone said broadcast was dead, and then satellite happened and everyone said cable was dead, and then DVDs happened and everyone said everything was over. Nothing was over. I'm very optimistic about the future.
I have an unreasonably optimistic view of the world.
I'm a born, cautious optimist.
I am an optimist about America.
I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.
I'm an optimist.
I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical.
Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist.
At the end of the day, my optimistic personality always takes over.
