It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom. — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
“We began in error, so obviously the ensuing events left us in error, too.” — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference. — John Walford Copy Share Image
I've got rid of a lot of cynicism and anger. I feel positive about my development, and I just want to carry… — King Krule Copy Share Image
I don't think being a cynic is necessarily a negative thing. It's a matter of seeing the world with clear and open… — Tom Tomorrow Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
A developer is someone who wants to build a house in the woods. An environmentalist is someone who already has a house… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
“I'm getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old… — Charles Sheffield Copy Share Image
Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and… — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
“Deliberately, she took a long drink. It wasn't as good as she remembered, but then little was. She caught herself in that… — Nevada Barr Copy Share Image
When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and… — Mike Zimmer Copy Share Image
But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this that you call… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you observe that today's controversies often reveal not relevance but the clash of the untaught with the wrongly taught, and when… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
At my years, and with my disposition, or rather, constitution, one gets to care less and less for everything except downright goodfeeling.… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I fight cynicism. It's too easy. It's really boring. It's much harder to be positive and see the wonder of everything. Cynicism… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Enforced religion breeds precisely what it most fears: rebellion against religion, cynicism about religion, skepticism about its claims, and, as a consequence,… — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
“To most people any radical change is even more odious than cynicism. The only way between the horns of dilemma is to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The worst thing about a person, in your eyes, might be the best thing about that person for them in their own… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
I realize that idealism is out of sync with the cynicism of our age. Skepticism has come to be synonymous with sophistication,… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
“I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I’ve become arrogant, but simply because I reached a point in my… — José Micard Teixeira Copy Share Image
“Maybe it's the fact the most of the arts here are produced by world-weary and sophisticated older people and then consumed by… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“If you try to convert someone, it will never be to effect his salvation but to make him suffer like yourself, to… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Home? What is home? Home is where a house is that you come back to when the rainy season is about to… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down. — Collis Potter Huntington Copy Share Image
“He see's the world the way cynics do; Not looking for false Hope.” — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
“There are those who always think the worst of people. That's because they are the worst of people.” — Marsha Hinds Copy Share Image
The only way to do my job without optimism would be as a cynic, and that's not my nature. — Jon Snow Copy Share Image
