“Just because you say inspirational quotes does not make you inspirational.” — Jesse Gaag Copy Share Image
“Food always sounds optimistic when you have it and pessimistic when you don’t.” — Boris Zubry Copy Share Image
From 8 A.M. until noon, I am pessimistic. Then from 1 P.M. until 4, I feel optimistic. — Eduardo Galeano 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
Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Optimistic parents raise resilient children, but pessimistic parents raise broken offspring. Wherever there is darkness, show your children the light. — Shmuley Boteach Copy Share Image
If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: Don't be economic girlie men! — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy. — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
If people were super-optimistic about technology there would be no reason to be pessimistic about the future. — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last.… — January Jones Copy Share Image
What makes us feel pessimistic about the world, ultimately, is the way the media encourage us to believe that our fate hangs… — Matt Taibbi 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
I am pessimistic about a picture's power to be the emissary of just one thing. What I hope is that the picture… — Emmet Gowin 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
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. A… — Nhat Hanh 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
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
Snowpiercer has both [optimistic and pessimistic]. It was essentially optimistic. The most pessimistic was my part, because of his knowledge. He knows… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
“Know what you can change from what you can’t, and you’ll live a happier, more peaceful life. This view is not pessimistic—it… — Dominique Francon 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
“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'm not pessimistic, because poor people tend to bounce back. We've been through worse than this - working people been through worse… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries,… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
People can be extraordinarily resilient and show extraordinary grace and humour even in moments of tribulation. I've always found that it's much… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies. — Karel Reisz Copy Share Image
I admit that some of my ideas may have turned out to be pessimistic in nature. — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
When a pessimistic person wishes to be wrong, s/he becomes optimistic. — Mohammad MUSTAFA Copy Share Image
If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own. — David Eddings Copy Share Image
“I can’t think of a more misused phrase than ‘I can’t,’ except in this instance.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image