If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic.
If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic.
I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.
If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.
Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.
I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.
I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.
If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last. Maybe I'm a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can't believe it.
At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.
When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.
City folk need not feel sorry for themselves or be pessimistic about the soil in which Christianity is planted to live and bear fruit. The Christian faith was made for contest, and its best fruits are always produced out of the harsh soil of difficulty and danger.
Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that.
Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as "uncertain" is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy.
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