Quotes of: Pessimists Keyword

Pessimists are born, true, but they also can be made.

David Rakoff

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

Elbert Hubbard

I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.

Claude Chabrol

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

J. Paul Getty

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.

Sean O'Faolain

I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.

Elmer Bernstein

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. But if you meet the people who are working...

Paul Hawken

What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.

Candide

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

Gramsci's Prison Letters

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.

Olivia Wilde

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

Peter Benchley

A pessimist is someone who has forgotten the joy of beginning.

Marty Rubin

I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.

Nick Bostrom

Crisis and pressure help foster change - that's why I'm not so pessimistic towards crises.

Wolfgang Schauble

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

Eric Sevareid

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.

Colin Mochrie

In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.

Emilio Estevez

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Jean Rostand

For an optimist life is beautiful, for a pessimist life is beautiful for the fool.

Debasish Mridha

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

Jean de La Fontaine