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Letter "P" » pessimist
«I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will»
Author: Antonio Gramsci
(Founder, Politician)
| About:
Optimism,
Pessimism
| Keywords:
optimist, pessimist
«In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.»
Author: Daniel L. Reardon
| About:
Optimism,
Pessimism
| Keywords:
in the long run, long run, optimist, pessimist, proved, running time, The Long, The Long Run, trip
«Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.»
Author: G. B. Stern
| About:
Optimism,
Pessimism,
Society
| Keywords:
Airplanes, contribute, invents, optimist, optimists, parachute, parachutes, parachuting, pessimist, Pessimists
«I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.»
«No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.»
Author: W. R. Inge
| About:
Christianity,
Optimism,
Pessimism
| Keywords:
optimism, pessimist, radical
«Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.»
«Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun--and neither can stop the march of events.»
«I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
bad, came, conclusion, except, excepted, in conclusion, optimist, pessimist, Pessimists, The Conclusion, thought
«No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Secrets
| Keywords:
Heaven To, opened, open secret, pessimist, sailed, uncharted
«Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!»
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