#pessimist

I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#pessimist #responsibility #sense

I’m supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty,” I told her. Without a moment’s hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: “It depends on if you’re drinking or pouring. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#grandma #life #optimist #perspective #pessimist

Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea. Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice crackle and clink. Is the glass part full or part empty? Take another sip. And now? ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#cool #drink #drinking #empty #full

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. ↗

— William Golding

#optimist #pessimist #nature

I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies. ↗

— Elmer Bernstein

#america #down #especially #generally #i

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#correct #events #ever #fun #march

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#been #intimately #optimist #person #pessimist

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

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#about #adjusts #change #complains #expects

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? ↗

— Rene Descartes

#blow #light #may #must #none