You should always be questioning your government, but do not become cynical. — Pete Visclosky Copy Share Image
Sometimes we tend to focus on the negative and forget all the positive there is in the world. — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
If the glass is half empty, it can always be filled, and if the glass is half full, it can always be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not one for reading comments or reading what people say online because, generally, there's a lot of negativity. — Finn Balor Copy Share Image
It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My pessimism (which, by the way, is far from absolute) originated with my despair in the lack of perfection to be found… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
“Of all the pessimistic people, I am the most optimistic. I look forward to looking down on all the people looking up… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
On domestic policy, one of the major stories in American politics has been the growing ideological and political self-confidence of the Democratic… — Peter Beinart Copy Share Image
I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism... I have every confidence that there will be… — Andrew Mellon Copy Share Image
Negativity, in general, is one of the things that holds people back, and you have to see what's holding you back to… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Soldiers fighting a daily battle under frightening conditions can feel their leaders are far removed from their reality. There's no magic cure… — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
“Negativity is simply the devil's language spoken by those who have his perspective." God's language is faith. Nothing is impossible with God… — Robert Morris Copy Share Image
“In trying to make sense of this pessimism, Ridley, like Kahneman, sees a combination of cognitive biases and evolutionary psychology as the… — Peter H. Diamandis Copy Share Image
Germany's Angela Merkel exudes an atmosphere of elderly exhaustion and pooped-out pessimism. Britain's David Cameron, though by nature exuberant, feels he has… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“Science may have alleviated the miseries of disease and drudgery and provided an array of gadgetry for our entertainment and convenience, but… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Summer, with its dog days, its vacations, its distractions, is over. We have had our holidays, our rest, our recreation. The fall… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing,… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness - that is, the improbable - with becoming, and to coerce… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
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