“It is possible for things to get worse without limit.” — U.S. National Bureau of Standards Dr. Herbert R.J. Grosch Copy Share Image
When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
The opposite of a leader isn't a follower. The opposite of a leader is a pessimist. — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come. — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
“The optimist and the pessimist both die in the end, but each lives is life in a completely different way.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I think the cynicism that you have when you've just gone through a break-up is a luxury that you allow yourself for… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
“The attraction of cynicism was that it so often put you in the right, as if being right led directly to happiness.” — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“When you've been struck by lightning as many times as I have, you start to expect the worst pretty much all the… — Jennifer Bosworth Copy Share Image
When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and… — Mike Zimmer Copy Share Image
“Walk in faith. Do not let your doubts take the lead ahead of you; they will show you the wrong path. Being… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
I can UNDERSTAND pessimism, but I don't BELIEVE in it. It's not simply a matter of faith, but of historical EVIDENCE. Not… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I never think I feel cynical in general. Cynical is reality with an alternate spelling. I feel there's a gigantic amount of… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What choices are you making in your perception of the events around you? We choose how we view our times. There is… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“They were a remarkable company, each one of them a unique person, yet characterized to some extent by his particular national type.… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Though I am alive now, I do not believe an old man's pessimism is nessessarily truer than a young man's optimism simply… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“Sex is not about reproduc-tion, gender is not about males and females, courtship is not aboutpersuasion, fashion is not about beauty, and… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“We have reached the end of one era, and now we don't know what is all around us. Because we're already in… — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
“Negativity has never been a friend to anyone" -Hollister” — Jennifer Chambliss Bertman Copy Share Image
