In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!' — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
“He didn't want to get his hopes up, but he also refused to be a pessimist about this moment. Everything could go… — Adam P. Knave Copy Share Image
“The great thing about being a pessimist is you’re always either completely right or pleasantly surprised.” — JK Neve Copy Share Image
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
There are some harsh realities about this business, and they've been beaten into my psyche. But I'm more of an optimist than… — Matt Lauer Copy Share Image
“The optimist says, "The glass is half full." The pessimist says, "The glass is half empty." The rationalist says, "This glass is… — Thomas Cathcart Copy Share Image
People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I… — John Grant Copy Share Image
I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of hope in my work. I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess.… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Pessimism is easy. We all can do it. We don't need to read books on how to be pessimists. We don't need… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
You may hear people say that submarines have done away with the battleship, and that aircraft have annulled the mastery of the… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
Only from the perspective of such a utopia is it possible to use the concepts of pessimism and optimism with full justification:… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The fierce poet of the Middle Ages wrote, "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here," over the gates of the lower world.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“A half-naked, betel-chewing pessimist stood upon the bank of the tropical river, on the edge of the still and immense forests; a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
