Pessimistic Optimist Quotes

#1. On one hand, I'm an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I'm a pessimistic optimist. But while there's life, there's still hope, and I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if I didn't think there was still hope.

Helen Caldicott

#2. I want to be around people who dream and support and do things.

Amy Poehler

#3. Pessimists try to convince you the world sucks, optimists already know it does and smile anyway.

Jonathan Harnisch

#4. She accused me of wearing pants from the salvation army."
"Rose, your pants ARE from the salvation army."
"That's SO not the point!

Richelle Mead

#5. The optimist is a pessimist with a plan

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#6. Skylar's obviously into that Chris dude, I saw them in his sorry excuse for a truck, should have totaled it when I had the chance,

Heather Demetrios

#7. [T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and lost freedom, just waiting for us to pick the whole thing up and heave it away. It has to happen. Free people can put up with such laws only for so long.

Dick Armey

#8. Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#9. The pessimist may call the optimist a fool; but who is more foolish, the happy individual who expects more happiness or the one who fills his life with bitterness and has only more despair to look forward to?

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#10. My training makes me uneasy with a happy mystery.

Jonathan Rottenberg

#11. I was too pessimistic for an optimist to live with

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.

Edwin Morgan

#13. The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

Albert Schweitzer

#14. Wednesday: Do none of these cartoon kids have parents? Max and Ruby - do they live alone? And why won't she EVER listen to what Max says? Damn goody-goody know-it-all. Reminds me of Cece.

Amber L. Johnson

#15. To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair.
To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back.

Munia Khan

#16. The naked female body is treated so weirdly in society. It's like people are constantly begging to see it, but once they do, someone's a hoe.

Lena Horne

#17. Grant us the wil1 to fashion as we feel, Grant us the strength to labor as we know, Grant us the purpose, ribbed and edged with steel, To strike the blow.

John Drinkwater

#18. Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

Mark Twain

#19. I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.

Nicholas Hoult