#pessimists

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

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#beings #beneath #better #hope #human

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