#pessimists

How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right. ↗

— Robert Mallet

#end #fear #how #many #order

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#future #optimists #past #pessimists #traditionalists

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful. ↗

— Sean O'Faolain

#gay #kind #over #pessimists #pitiful

People don't like to follow pessimists. ↗

— Bob Iger

#like #people #pessimists

And our pessimists think this has taken too long. Our pessimists believe that too many Americans have died. Our pessimists believe that we have lost the war. ↗

— John Linder

#died #long #lost #many #our

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#pessimists #right #superfluous

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#extends #other #pessimism #pessimists #point

If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us. ↗

— Jane Rule

#became #even #gay #inspire #legislation

My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. ↗

— Edmond Rostand

#pessimism #pessimists #point #sincerity #suspecting

Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#because #been #cheerful #creep #errors