Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Vaughan

There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.

David Eddings

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

Eugene Ionesco

Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.

Mark Twain

Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

Nate Silver

The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.

William Sanderson

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

Sean O'Faolain

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.

Bill Vaughan

There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.

David Eddings

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

Colin Mochrie

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole.

Eugene Ionesco

Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.

Mark Twain

Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

Mark Twain

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

Nate Silver

The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

Carlos Ghosn

I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.

Carlos Fuentes

I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.

Charlie Crist

I'm here tonight, not as a Republican, not as a Democrat, but as an optimistic American who understands that we must come together behind the one man who can lead the way forward in these challenging times: my president, our president, Barack Obama!

Charles Stanley

Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy.

David Miliband

"I think the wonderment of seeing my two sons developing makes me incredibly optimistic about human potential. It makes you think: 'My goodness. It's a miracle that's going on here. What could the human race do together?"'

David Rakoff

There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

Carl Sagan

The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

Byron Katie

For me, the future lives only here in my mind, as thoughts and images, just as the past does, and I love those thoughts and the world that it produces. I am entirely optimistic about the future.

Jared Diamond

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.