Pessimistic Quotes - Page 6

• Besides, many Islamic movements will change as soon as they gain political responsibility. I'm not at all pessimistic in this regard. Just think of Turkey, where the Islamists are now behaving like a sort of Christian Democratic party in Europe.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Christian, Islamic, Party

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get a grip on this town. It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down. But you must stop being so pessimistic, Hannah, and learn to trust those around you. So I do. One more time.

  Jay Asher

  Letting Go, Hands, Mountain

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.79, Penguin

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• People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.

  Michael Robotham

  Hard Work, Thinking, People

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• It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.

  Isabel Allende

  Thinking, Silence, Going Away

  "Isabel Allende: Despite Terrorism, the World Is a Better Place Now Than Ever Before". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• Men will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic or optimistic, as I am. More interesting discoveries than we can imagine will be made, and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.

  Linus Pauling

  Optimistic, Knowledge, Science

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• A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic.

  Gough Whitlam

  Optimistic, Government, Expectations

  "The Whitlam Government, 1972-1975". Book by Gough Whitlam, 1985.

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• I'm sort of optimistic about what we could do, but I'm very pessimistic about what we will do. I can't tell you that Al Gore's 10-year plan is impossible. I'm old enough to remember the Second World War - if we had a World War II-type mobilization, we might accomplish Gore's plan. In 1940 we were making tens of thousands of automobiles, and in 1941 we were making tens of thousands of airplanes. We mobilized as a nation. If we get that kind of mobilization as a nation or globally, then we could solve a lot of these problems.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  War, Airplane, Optimistic

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• We all have negative days, but that doesn't mean we are pessimistic. We all do stupid things, but that doesn't mean we are stupid. It's important to be able to distinguish between what happens to us and who we are, and look forward with hope for new and better days ahead!

  Lindsey Stirling

  Stupid, Mean, Important

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• Developing a cheerful disposition can permit an atmosphere wherein one's spirit can be nurtured and encouraged to blossom and bear fruit. Being pessimistic and negative about our experiences will not enhance the quality of our lives. A determination to be of good cheer can help us and those around us to enjoy life more fully.

  Barbara W. Winder

  Happiness, Determination, Cheer

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• Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of the book and my longtime working understanding and definition of it, noir stories are bleak, existential, alienated, pessimistic tales about losers--people who are so morally challenged that they cannot help but bring about their own ruin.

  Otto Penzler

  Art, Book, People

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• Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening around us today, you can't help but feel that life is a terrible complexity of problems. But if you look back a few thousand years, you realize that we have advanced fantastically. If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of mankind.

  Robertson Davies

  Life, Future, Views

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• If it's not one thing, it's your mother.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mother, Psychology, Nine Months

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• The Church of TED is very optimistic. Bulgarians are some of the most pessimistic in the world. There are the Happy, the Unhappy and the Bulgarians.

  Ivan Krastev

  Optimistic, Unhappy, Church

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• Why will someone sell you a dollar for 50 cents? Because in the short run, people are irrational on both the optimistic and pessimistic side.

  Peter Cundill

  Running, Optimistic, People

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• The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the ingenuity of science and no limit to the deviltry of human beings.

  I. F. Stone

  Optimistic, Technology, Men

  I.F. Stone (1972). “Polemics and prophecies, 1967-1970”, Vintage Books USA

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• I'm probably the most pessimistic actor I know. I'm always sure I'll never work again.

  William Sanderson

  Actors, Knows

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 11, 2009.

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• I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are with it, the less likely you are to have a breakdown when it occurs. You become more reflective of its purpose, you understand God's reason for it, and are then able to make the best of everything that you are handed. The darkness is only frightening after constant sunshine.

  Criss Jami

  Fear, Writing, Adversity

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.110, Criss Jami

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• And I am an optimistic person. I guess if you want to try to find something to be pessimistic about, you can find it, no matter how hard you look, you know?

  George W. Bush

  Optimistic, Trying, Looks

  George W. Bush's Remarks with President Karzai of Afghanistan in a Press Availability, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 15, 2004.

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• Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable. For people of science, he is a hero. Denying man a privileged place in creation, .. he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man.

  Primo Levi

  Hero, Men, Views

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• I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day to day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.

  Alain de Botton

  Laughter, Optimistic, Laughing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's hard not to be kind of pessimistic about human beings generally, because we do tend to mess things up. If you just look at the history of extinctions, we've killed off an awful lot of animals - and I don't think we're doing a very good job of looking after the planet.

  Bill Bryson

  Jobs, Animal, Thinking

  "Bill Bryson answers your questions". www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2005.

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• In being realistic we do not always have to be pessimistic. Christ never blinked his eyes at bad things. But he never became so obsessed with human evil that he lost faith in man.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Eye, Men, Worry

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• I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.

  Jon Anderson

  Optimistic, Thinking, Optimism

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• I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility. There's hope in the wilderness.

  Paul Theroux

  Heart, Cities, Green

  "Author Paul Theroux on His Final African Journey". Interview with Veronica Gould Stoddart, www.usatoday.com. May 23, 2013.

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• Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.

  Jane McGonigal

  Energy, Capability, Despondent

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