Quotes of: Pessimistic Keyword

These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.

bell hooks

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

Jacques Barzun

My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

Edmond Rostand

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Harry S Truman

An optimist sees the miracles and beauty of life and a pessimist sees the sufferings and wonders, where is the life?

Debasish Mridha

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

An optimist sees a failure as an opportunity to excel, but a pessimist sees a failure as an opportunity to quit.

Debasish Mridha

People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.

James Garner

Know what an optimist is, Major? A pessimist without much experience.

The Embassy House

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

Reflections

The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

Nate Silver

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

Thomas L. Friedman

The pessimist! Whenever something good came along, he knew how to make the worst of it.

Marty Rubin

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

Aldous Huxley

Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.

Ellen Goodman

I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.

Benjamin Franklin

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

George Will

Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.

Joni Eareckson Tada

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

David Eddings

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

William Golding

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.

Chauncey Depew