Pessimistic Quotes - Page 8

• I'm pessimistic about the future of the planet. These big guys don't realize for everything they do, there's a reaction. You have to pay. That's karma.

  George Harrison

  Karma, Guy, Pay

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• My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad. If everything is dangerous, then we always have something to do. So my position leads not to apathy but to hyper - and pessimistic - activism.

  Michel Foucault

  Apathy, Activism, Dangerous

  Source: www.nicklewis.org

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• To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, "Ah, that's no longer feminist," is a pessimistic, even masochistic tendency in women, the result of having been habituated to inertia, to pessimism.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Feminist, Done, Pessimism

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• I'm very pessimistic about that, no matter how hard we may try. The Chinese market is huge, but out of last year's $2 billion box office, $1.8 billion was taken in by foreign movies, and just $200 million by our own movies, no matter how much we have learned of their techniques, or their good practices. The Hollywood movies imported into China are all good movies; does the U.S. make lousy movies? Yes, too many lousy movies, but the imports are good films, so how can they not be box office hits? They're all hits.

  Jackie Chan

  Taken, Years, Practice

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• I tend to be pessimistic. I want to believe in hope.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Believe, Want

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Snowpiercer has both [optimistic and pessimistic]. It was essentially optimistic. The most pessimistic was my part, because of his knowledge. He knows how it started. The status quo, he knows, has to be maintained, otherwise there is no chance. He knows that this revolution is completely understandable and is also commendable. He also knows the negatives. In the end, that's not a very positive position to be in.

  John Hurt

  Optimistic, Revolution, Chance

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

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• Anything which retains interest is optimistic. When the characters become disinterested, it's pessimistic. Does that make sense?

  John Hurt

  Optimistic, Character, Doe

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

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• One wonders sometimes, looking at the world, how it's dealing with itself. There are days when you wake up and you feel very optimistic and there are days when you feel pessimistic.

  John Hurt

  Optimistic, Wake Up, World

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

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• I'm not a fearful person, but I'm a pretty pessimistic person. So some of my best times are waiting, anticipating. That's the way it always has been with me, whether anticipating a ball game, anticipating a relationship.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Games, Waiting, Way

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think I'm optimistic, yeah, especially in real life, but I think it's funny to be pessimistic.

  Mike Judge

  Real, Optimistic, Thinking

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is unwarranted.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Littles, Pessimism, Ends

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I certainly think we're losing a lot of our connections with other people. I fear in my most pessimistic moments that the computer is simply another step down the road which we have already taken quite a few steps on. We're talking to each other on computers because we don't talk across the fence.

  Howard Rheingold

  Taken, Thinking, Talking

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• It's interesting to feel the pressure of having to be outgoing, because I think in general, as a human being, I'm pessimistic and introverted. But, it's cool, because it's a whole different side of me, and I impress myself. Even at times when I think that there's no possible way that I can be engaging, I'll suddenly pull it out and impress myself.

  Nate Ruess

  Thinking, Interesting, Different

  "Fun.'s Nate Ruess". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. April 13, 2012.

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• 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. I come from a background where I was never told that I couldn't do something, so I'm very stubborn. I don't know if I believe in fate or destiny, but it kind of feels that way sometimes.

  January Jones

  Believe, Fate, Destiny

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's easy to be pessimistic. Nobody needs to be taught how. You don't need to buy a book on it. You don't need to go to classes to learn how to be pessimistic. But you do read books on how to think positively, and people who write them become very rich because it takes effort.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• That's not saying there's not a bunch of good Democrats. I'm sure there's a lot of people who still haven't figured that out yet or simply don't want to have that pessimistic of an outlook, but I think the Democratic Party is completely worthless.

  Aaron McGruder

  Party, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People can be extraordinarily resilient and show extraordinary grace and humour even in moments of tribulation. I've always found that it's much easier for people who are not terribly, badly off to lose hope and to be pessimistic. I suppose that when you are in a really serious situation, you have to be present, you have to think about it, there's not much scope for self-pity.

  Arundhati Roy

  Thinking, People, Grace

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• At the beginning of the Syrian conflict, I was optimistic. But now, I'm pessimistic, because it's so complicated. It's much worse than before. The whole world is fighting inside of Syria. It will take years and years to resolve.

  Osama Alomar

  Optimistic, Fighting, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic.

  Benjamin Graham

  Optimistic, People, Experts

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Optimistic, Vision, Investing

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• I am pessimistic, I think that's the best way to be, because if you're always expecting the best - the best doesn't always happen. Nine times out of 10 it doesn't. I'm surprised when things go smoothly. I don't know what's wrong with being pessimistic - unless you are such a pessimist that you don't do anything.

  Karl Pilkington

  Thinking, Nine, Way

  Source: www.listener.co.nz

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• No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.

  Price Pritchett

  Price Pritchett (2006). “Hard Optimism: How to Succeed in a World Where Positive Wins”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Optimistic, Dark, Men

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• My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.

  Olivia Wilde

  Optimistic, Parent, Said

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

  Wallace Stegner

  Home, Optimistic, Quality

  "Wallace Stegner, the Rural West, and Me" by John McChesney, web.stanford.edu. July 05, 2011.

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