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Pessimist Quotes by Sydney J. Harris
- The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light…
- Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the…
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- Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race… — James A. Baldwin
- I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand… — Henry Adams
- But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes… — Tony Blair
- The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. — Tom Bodett
- A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. — Winston Churchill
- I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I… — Leonard Cohen
- A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better. — Jean de La Fontaine
- Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing… — Robert A. Heinlein
- I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism — Roberto Rossellini
- Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist. — Jack Welch
- ...the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in… — B. C. Forbes
- After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand? — Robert Breault