Pessimist Quotes
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Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.
William Beveridge -
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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The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'
Vladimir Bukovsky -
To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.
William Arthur Ward -
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 -
I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.
Craig Venter -
To the optimist, pessimists are neurotic; to the pessimist, optimists are deluded.
David H. Levy -
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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The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
George Will -
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill -
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.
Tony Blair -
Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful.
Sean O'Faolain -
The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.
William Arthur Ward -
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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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw -
“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.”
Amos Tversky -
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 -
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Harry S Truman -
The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.
William Arthur Ward -
A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill.
Mike Royko
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Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.
Will Harvey -
An optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
Ada Leverson -
I always look on the black side of life. That way, you won't be disappointed and I'm cheerful if it doesn't work out. I'm a cheerful pessimist.
Paul Davies -
I've never met a successful pessimist.
William J. O'Neil