Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

#pessimist

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #pessimist




I’m supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty,” I told her. Without a moment’s hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: “It depends on if you’re drinking or pouring.


Bill Cosby


#grandma #life #optimist #perspective #pessimist

A month ago, Gavin had given his employer four weeks' notice. "I'll get a job around here," he'd told her. "Something low-stress, part-time, maybe. We're not paying rent, and Dad's left us plenty. You should quit, too." A year earlier this news would have filled her with delicious, full fat, chocolate-coated joy. But now, after a grueling routine of shitty work, shitty- weird home life in a house where the shadow of a dead boy walked more solidly than the grownups, shitty headaches, shitty worry about a husband who couldn't keep his dick out of other women, the golden offer just weirded Laine out. She didn't trust it.


Stephen M. Irwin


#distancing-self #distrust #haunted #husband #jaded

People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is. An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist. An idealist focuses only on the best aspects of all things (sometimes in detriment to reality); an optimist strives to find an effective solution. A pessimist sees limited or no choices in dark times; an optimist makes choices. When bobbing for apples, an idealist endlessly reaches for the best apple, a pessimist settles for the first one within reach, while an optimist drains the barrel, fishes out all the apples and makes pie. Annoying? Yes. But, oh-so tasty!


Vera Nazarian


#apple #apples #bobbing #choices #energetic

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.


Carl Rogers


#i #i am #look #optimistic #people

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.


William Ralph Inge


#christianity #optimism #pessimist #radical #system

Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.


Criss Jami


#care #choice #empty #full #glass

I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.


Elmer Bernstein


#america #down #especially #generally #i

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.


Winston Churchill


#every #opportunity #optimist #pessimist #sees

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.


Bill Vaughan


#make #midnight #new #new year #old

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.


Clay Aiken


#even #hoped #i #i think #little






back to top