You certainly are optimistic.

I still am. But the clock is ticking.

I returned an optimist, but without illusions.

How can that not make you optimistic?

I remain cautiously optimistic about the future.

Well, I'm not an optimist, neither am I a pessimist.

I'd really like to know why you're so optimistic.

But for me, I have another reason to be an incurable optimist.

Candide, however, remains an optimist at heart, since it is all he knows.

The idea was to put out something that was optimistic, that says we can do all these things.

I become a huge digital optimist and I start to think that this wonderful statement from the physicist Freeman Dyson is actually not hyperbole.

And it didn't matter if you're an extreme optimist, a mild optimist or slightly pessimistic, everyone's left inferior frontal gyrus was functioning perfectly well, whether you're Barack Obama or Woody Allen.

But despite this challenge personally, I'm still a huge digital optimist, and I am supremely confident that the digital technologies that we're developing now are going to take us into a Utopian future, not a dystopian future.

I have erred in the past, being on the optimistic side, thinking that by 2004 we would no longer need a peacekeeping mechanism in Timor Leste.

Negotiations are in progress with several other accused persons, and I remain optimistic that some other guilty plea accords will be concluded shortly.

When asked at the Brown seminary in 1973, whether he was optimistic about the future, he answered, Oh, I think I'm basically optimistic about the human prospects in the long run.

Being an optimistic person and a San Franciscan I definitely am very hopeful but it takes leadership and it takes educational systems and communities in order to become successful so in a way

When I was president of the American Psychological Association, they tried to media train me, and an encounter I had with CNN summarizes what I'm going to be talking about today, which is the eleventh reason to be optimistic.

In his 2004 report, the Secretary General strikes an optimistic note It is heartening to note that the number of ratifications of international human rights treaties has continued to increase, moving us closer to achieving one of the goals of the United Nations Millennium Declaration.

The sense in which I can be uplifting and inspiring I mean, there's always been a kind of a certain grim dimension to the way I try to uplift, so if grim inspiration if grim inspiration is not a contradiction in terms, that is, I'm afraid, the most you can hope for. OK, today that's if I succeed.