#pessimistic

I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#clown #gogh #i #like #look

I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies. ↗

— Karel Reisz

#feel #i #movies #now #pessimistic

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#better #better place #concerned #country #excited

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

— Nate Silver

#economists #economy #even #more #most

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#attitude #optimistic #pessimistic #rather #than

If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last. Maybe I'm a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can't believe it. ↗

— January Jones

#ball #because #believe #drop #everything

We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were. ↗

— Mary Shelley

#change

If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#corruption #even #focus #get #institutions

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious. ↗

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

#friendship #pessimistic #reality #wise #friendship

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short. ↗

— Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

#life #paul-and-virginie #paul-et-virginie #pessimism #pessimistic