Colum McCann Quotes

I'm such a fan of the glass being half full.

I'm an optimist - very glass half-full.

An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?

I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.

I just look at the high and bright side of things.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

I'm an eternal optimist.

I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.

I've always been a glass-half-full as opposed to a glass-half-empty, and the day that changes is the day I should leave.

I'm annoyingly optimistic.

I'm not Pollyanna.

There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?

It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.

In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.

Cheer up, things will get worse.

Please don't look at the part of the glass that is only half full.

I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.

I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.

In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.

I'm an optimist by nature.

To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.