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I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.
I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism.
I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts.
I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
I'm always naturally a bit of a pessimist. And my mom is sorta the opposite.
A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.
I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
They say in the Middle East a pessimist is simply an optimist with experience.
I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way.
I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.
Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.
I think a pessimist is just an optimist who has had their heart repeatedly broken.
Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful.
I refuse to use terms like 'optimist' or 'pessimist' and instead prefer 'realist.'
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.
I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.
[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.
When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.
Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.
I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.
A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems.
I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.
What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.
I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?
People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.
Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem.
That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.
Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
I'm a bit of a pessimist, oh yeah, and I always think the film I'm about to make is going to be a disaster.
The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each.
Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.