#pessimistic

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

Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as "uncertain" is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#economy #every #pessimistic #referring #uncertain

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

— David Eddings

#general #going #hold #opinion #own

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own. ↗

— Titus Livius

#fear #influence #leads #magnified #men

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

— Karel Reisz

#feel #i #movies #now #pessimistic

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

— Nate Silver

#economists #economy #even #more #most

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

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