Because of the Internet, you're sort of forced to deal with people from very different backgrounds and beliefs. It's a great challenge… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair. To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“Listen to what you tell yourself about your life situation. If you find it's pessimistic or negative, ask yourself, "What's another way… — Lynn A. Robinson 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
And I am an optimistic person. I guess if you want to try to find something to be pessimistic about, you can… — George W. Bush 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 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
We are heading towards catastrophe. I think the world is going to pieces. I am very pessimistic. Why? Because the world hasn't… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
It's hard not to be kind of pessimistic about human beings generally, because we do tend to mess things up. If you… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Developing a cheerful disposition can permit an atmosphere wherein one's spirit can be nurtured and encouraged to blossom and bear fruit. Being… — Barbara W. Winder Copy Share Image
Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of… — Otto Penzler Copy Share Image
I think my movies aren't sentimental. I think my movies are funny and sad and realistic. Not realistic in the sense that… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad. If… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Men will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic or optimistic, as I am.… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
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
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
“Those who make their living flirting with catastrophe develop a faculty of pessimistic imagination, of anticipating the worst, that is often all… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I don't feel that I view things with a pessimistic eye. I should try to say which way events will go rather… — Henry Kaufman 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
“Pessimistic" is a word for "realistic" that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about their unrealisticness).” — Claire Copy Share Image
“While I may be pessimistic about parts of the business that support journalism, I’m optimistic about the robust survival of journalism in… — George Brock Copy Share Image
Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There are two words that I believe could be completely eradicated from our vocabulary – “I can’t.” These two words are so… — Daniel Willey Copy Share Image
If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, you don’t have the correct… — Paul Hawken 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
Nothing can save you from hate, empty all your treasures and give it to people and one out of the multitudes will… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't feel like promising big things to my fans. I'm not thinking about victory at all. I'll do my best to… — Michael Schumacher Copy Share Image
Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The… — Nathan Lane 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
It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“One of the marvels of human psychology is that the people who are thoroughly pessimistic about humankind want to solve our problems… — Wallace Kaufman 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… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on,… — H. R. Giger Copy Share Image
“I ask, ‘Is the cup half-empty or half-full?’ And when I ask that question, I am amazed at how many people have… — Craig D. Lounsbrough 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
