At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
quote by Naguib Mahfouz
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There are no optimistic or pessimistic personalities. There are only single, individual choices for optimistic or pessimistic thoughts.
quote by Steve Chandler
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I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.
quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
quote by Carl R. Rogers
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I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.
quote by Claude Chabrol
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If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.
quote by David Eddings
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I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.
quote by Karel Reisz
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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
quote by Aldous Huxley
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I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.
quote by Elmer Bernstein
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To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.
quote by Albert Schweitzer
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It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.
quote by Steve Allen
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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.
quote by H.R. Giger
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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.
quote by Titus Livius
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Light-Years Apart
I am looking for someone to win my heart
But why it still seems we are light-years apart?
I am not pessimistic in anyway:
I keep on looking for you day after day.
My eyes are tired of looking for you –
How shall I find you I don’t have a clue.
When I will meet you I really don’t know
Although if I am the moon you are my glow.
poem by Asif Andalib
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I'm horribly pessimistic. Wherever you turn, it's a catastrophe, a nightmare. It makes me sick to my stomach. At night I wake up and obsess about it.
quote by Maurice Bejart
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If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.
quote by Hazel Henderson
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
Shadows and light
In an unseemly embrace
Foolish April Dance
haiku by Jan Oskar Hansen
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When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.
quote by Charles R. Swindoll
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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.
quote by Paul Hawken
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