Pessimist Quotes
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Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.
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To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.
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Most people who work with me can tell you I'm a bit of a pessimist about business stuff. Not because I don't believe in what I'm doing, I just don't like feeling presumptuous. Like, 'This is what's going to happen!' Honestly, I don't know what will happen.
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The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'
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To the optimist, pessimists are neurotic; to the pessimist, optimists are deluded.
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I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.
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I'm a terrible pessimist... I really don't think we're going to make it. But every so often, there's some little ray of hope.
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The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.
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The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
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In the Soviet Union we have a saying, a pessimist is someone who believes things can't get any worse. An optimist thinks maybe they can.
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But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome.
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Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful.
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The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
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Briefly, then, life, to the pessimist, is a motiveless desire, a constant pain and continued struggle, followed by death, and so on, in secula seculorum, until the planet’s crust crumbles to dust.
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“When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.”
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A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill.
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An optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
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The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.
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A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
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I can be a real pessimist. You know that when you win an Oscar, and you walk offstage, and your first thought is: 'Oh God, I've peaked.'
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I am always an optimist. The pessimists are the liars who refuse to admit what is happening. And I'll give you three things we could do this instant to help Mexico: legalize drugs, renegotiate NAFTA so that it pays a living wage, protects unions and protects the environment and stop Plan Merida which gives $500 million a year to the Mexican army, the largest single criminal organization in Mexico.
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An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
