#pessimist

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#am #anew #day #every #every day

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

Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#ago #although #been #behind #biggest

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#being #danger #depressing #life #pessimist

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#much #optimist #pessimist #worse

The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.' ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#birth #gave #land #optimistic #pessimistic

It is easy to be pessimistic. These are extraordinarily difficult times, and the collective psyche is teetering. But we are closer to righting the wrongs that got us into this economic mess than most of us believe. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#closer #collective #difficult #difficult times #easy

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#before #believer #freedom #lunch #man

People don't like to follow pessimists. ↗

— Bob Iger

#like #people #pessimists

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist. ↗

— Robert G. Allen

#buying #many #optimist #out #pessimist