Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness -- since I am always so bowled over… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live. — Claude Chabrol Copy Share Image
“We are not merely more weary because of yesterday, we are other, no longer what we were before the calamity of yesterday.” — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
“I shield to one who is pessimistic and shield to one who is optimistic leaving this in a wandering state.” — Josh Cathey Copy Share Image
Left to my own devices, in the face of the climate change deniers, the madness and the greed-based decision-making, and propaganda that's… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
One wonders sometimes, looking at the world, how it's dealing with itself. There are days when you wake up and you feel… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he can control. — John Kessel Copy Share Image
“I live locked in the prison of my negative attitude. And despite the impenetrable walls that loom above me and about me,… — Craig D. Lounsbrough 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
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
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
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
It is easy to be pessimistic. These are extraordinarily difficult times, and the collective psyche is teetering. But we are closer to… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency,… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
Crisis and pressure help foster change - that's why I'm not so pessimistic towards crises. — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
I have now lived long enough to know that, whatever our situation, our troubles melt and disappear like frost in the morning… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
I went from a very pessimistic person to a very optimistic person sort of overnight, which is very weird. It's not even… — Norman Reedus Copy Share Image
