I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.
Clay Aiken
Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.
Robert G. Allen
I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.
Phil Anselmo
People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.
Joan Baez
I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
Peter Benchley
A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.
William Beveridge
I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.
Nick Cave
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'
Tyler Cowen