Pessimist Quotes
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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!'
Vladimir Bukovsky
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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.
Ben Rector
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To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.
William Arthur Ward
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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.
Craig Venter
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To the optimist, pessimists are neurotic; to the pessimist, optimists are deluded.
David H. Levy
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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.
Christian D. Larson
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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.
Lou Harrison
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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.
Edgar Saltus
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The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
George Will
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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.
Abel Aganbegyan
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The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.
William Arthur Ward
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Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful.
Sean O'Faolain