quotes about Pessimistic
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I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.
-- Adam Savage -
There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.
-- Bill Vaughan -
I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.
-- Claude Chabrol -
The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.
-- Cornel West -
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I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness -- since I am always so bowled over by it -- and am never surprised by injustice, malice or personal attack.
-- Dawn PowellSource : Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books
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I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.
-- Elmer Bernstein -
In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.
-- Emilio Estevez -
I am pessimistic about a picture's power to be the emissary of just one thing. What I hope is that the picture says, "Here I am, this is what I am like," and the person seeing the picture says in return, 'You know a lot but you don't know half of what I know.'
-- Emmet Gowin -
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Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
-- Eugene Ionesco -
I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.
-- Henry Rollins -
Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.
-- Jane McGonigal -
If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last. Maybe I'm a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can't believe it.
-- January Jones -
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Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.
-- Jim Valvano -
Don't be pessimistic Because, today, the sun hasn't shone It probably won't next year And you'll then be 61
-- John Walter Bratton -
Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.
-- Joni Eareckson Tada -
I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.
-- Karel Reisz -
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It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion.
-- Leo Tolstoy -
When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.
-- Marshall Brickman -
American actors are all muscular, tanned, white teeth and they have this indestructible confidence. We British are all... Dare I say it? Pessimistic.
-- Max IronsSource : "Max Irons talks to Stephanie Rafanelli". www.harpersbazaar.com. April 6, 2011.
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If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.
-- Maya Angelou -
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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 get on the podium at least, although I must admit I feel fairly pessimistic.
-- Michael Schumacher -
At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
-- Naguib Mahfouz -
It's interesting to feel the pressure of having to be outgoing, because I think in general, as a human being, I'm pessimistic and introverted. But, it's cool, because it's a whole different side of me, and I impress myself. Even at times when I think that there's no possible way that I can be engaging, I'll suddenly pull it out and impress myself.
-- Nate RuessSource : "Fun.'s Nate Ruess". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. April 13, 2012.
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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
-- Nate Silver -
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I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full.
-- Nigahiga -
My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.
-- Olivia Wilde -
If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic.
-- Paul Hawken -
The thing is with me I look on the brighter side of everything.There's no point being pessimistic or being worried about too many things because frankly life's too short.
-- Prince WilliamSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The boys at school are so degenerate that it makes one feel pessimistic about the future of the male gender in general.
-- Regina Doman -
No issue is so small that it can't be blown out of proportion.
-- Stuart Hughes -
There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.
-- William McFeeSource : William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”
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I'm probably the most pessimistic actor I know. I'm always sure I'll never work again.
-- William SandersonSource : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 11, 2009.
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On the future of the U.S., or of Western civilization in general, I tend to be quite pessimistic. I would say that today I see most of the symptoms of societies on the brink of collapse, not just in the U.S., but in the tightly interconnected societies of Western civilization - now essentially world civilization.
-- Arthur DemarestSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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There is something very quiet and reserved and pessimistic about Obama's temperament that is deeply un-American. There are those people who claim, "Oh, he wasn't born here" - all that is nonsense.
-- Jess RowSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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At the beginning of the Syrian conflict, I was optimistic. But now, I'm pessimistic, because it's so complicated. It's much worse than before. The whole world is fighting inside of Syria. It will take years and years to resolve.
-- Osama Alomar -
I think in general technology always sort of makes some jobs less relevant, or perhaps, even obsolete, but I will say that the idea that sort of workers will find nothing else to do seems like it's way too pessimistic on the capabilities of everyone as human beings, right?
-- Patrick CollisonSource : Source: www.cbsnews.com
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How dare we be pessimistic? Maybe the future is better than it used to be.
-- Peter Schwartz -
I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is unwarranted.
-- Ron Currie Jr. -
I am quite pessimistic about ever achieving interstellar travel.
-- Theodore von Karman -
If [Donald] Trump drags down a bunch of Senate Republicans, the post-election GOP assessment will be much more pessimistic.
-- Mara LiassonSource : Source: www.npr.org
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