I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
The Church of TED is very optimistic. Bulgarians are some of the most pessimistic in the world. There are the Happy, the… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
I'm very pessimistic about adaptations from one medium to another. I've got a very kind of primitive, Puritan view of it. I… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“There is a profound difference between fighting to avoid death and fighting in order to live. Men who fight to avoid death… — Malaparte Curzio Copy Share Image
When I was a very young student I loved and admired the work of Sam Beckett, who is famously pessimistic, and whose… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
“I don’t know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I’m pessimistic, then the adults in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as 'uncertain' is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy. — Bo Bennett Copy Share Image
With a lot of the movies that I've done, they've been both dramas and comedies from Shanghai Noon to Billy Bob Thornton's… — Walton Goggins Copy Share Image
Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void. Not the Jews of… — William James Copy Share Image
The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Very often pessimistic people speak against their own desire. They want to undertake some work, and they say, 'I will do this,… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic. — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
We accept that people are irrational for good Darwinian reasons. But I don't think we should be so pessimistic as to think… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We're an ignorant nation right now. We're not really capable, I do not think, the majority of our people, of making the… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
“We choose the prism that we use to view life. Life can be a mystical tour or an outright bummer. We can… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
This is the best night of my life," Raffy says, crying. "Raffy, half our House has burnt down," I say wearily. "We… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world. — Emilio Estevez 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
