Getting Pessimistic Quotes

#1. We're not spending enough money, but probably we let the teachers unions set curriculas which don't teach them the right things. There's not emphasis on the ... the basic learning that you need if you're going to go on in a college and into post-graduate work.

Rupert Murdoch

#2. A good man is hard to find
but you'll mostly find him asleep.

Mae West

#3. If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell

Philip Henry Sheridan

#4. I think 'The Act of Killing' forced people to look at the problem, but the problem is actually a state run by thugs, or a shadow state, a part of the state that's run by thugs, and a military that enjoys complete legal - not just impunity, but immunity.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#5. I think we're in a very exciting time - visually, I think we are. I've not got a crystal ball. I'm not saying I know what the future is at all. In some ways I'm getting quite pessimistic about the future, but in other ways I think it might get better. We are moving into very big changes.

David Hockney

#6. Go and make yourself useful, since you are too big to be ornamental.

Louisa May Alcott

#7. The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.

Kenneth L. Pike

#8. If I had to pick one scary movie, I'd go with John Carpenter's 'The Thing.' That's probably number one.

Drew Goddard

#9. C gives the programmer what the programmer wants; few restrictions, few complaints... C++ maintains the original spirit of C, that the programmer not the language is in charge.

Herbert Schildt

#10. It's similar to the way you feel cuddling an infant or a kitten, when you want to squeeze it so hard you'd kill it ...

Zoe Heller

#11. Church may be primarily for believers, but the gospel is for all people.

Dillon Burroughs

#12. Everyone wants to be immortal. Few are. Margaret Thatcher is. Why? Because her values are timeless, eternal. Tap anyone on the shoulder anywhere in the world, and ask what Mrs Thatcher believed in, and they will tell you. They can give a clear answer to what she 'stood for.'

Maurice Saatchi