My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times. — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
No, I'm not that optimistic, I'm just less pessimistic than most of my peers. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
When women are pessimistic about their political strength and feel hopeless about changing the conditions of their lives, it is almost as… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
I'm quite pessimistic about climate change. This is an urgent problem, and much of the world is only now waking up to… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I think I'm a person that's very pessimistic about, like I'm not a luddite but I don't think we need to crack… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
I'm pessimistic about the future of the planet. These big guys don't realize for everything they do, there's a reaction. You have… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking. — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
On one hand, I am very pessimistic, but on the other hand, if I didn't believe that speaking up would do something,… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
It is a nonsense to me when people come along and tell me not to be pessimistic; or that culture has always… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Most people have desires that are great and they want to do great things, and they don't want to be negative people… — Kirk Franklin Copy Share Image
I think in general technology always sort of makes some jobs less relevant, or perhaps, even obsolete, but I will say that… — Patrick Collison Copy Share Image
When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I am long term optimistic and short term pessimistic on immigration. Long term, I'm optimistic because there's a lotta bipartisan agreement outside… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Psychologists even have a term for this: they talk about 'mean world syndrome'. People who have just seen too much of the… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
It's easy to be pessimistic. Nobody needs to be taught how. You don't need to buy a book on it. You don't… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about… — Armond White Copy Share Image
Be a balanced optimist. Nobody is suggesting that you become an oblivious Pollyanna, pretending that nothing bad can or ever will happen.… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Karma is not something pessimistic. If you think of karma as something wrong, you are seeing karma only according to what happened… — DAININ KATAGIRI Copy Share Image
The military profession, especially is the long-established great powers, is deeply pessimistic about the likelihood that people and countries will behave well… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
“A month ago, Gavin had given his employer four weeks' notice. "I'll get a job around here," he'd told her. "Something low-stress,… — Stephen M. Irwin Copy Share Image
“Pessimism is a very easy way out when you’re considering what life really is, because pessimism is a short view of life.… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I try as hard as possible not to be pessimistic because I have never thought or believed that creating a Nigerian nation… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view… — Walpola Rahula Copy Share Image
“The emergence of pessimistic philosophies is by no means a sign of great and terrible misery. The emergence of pessimistic philosophies is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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