For me, being in shape means, like, not having cynicism out-weigh optimism on a daily basis. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
You see, in this world there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons. — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
“cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any monoprix store. it's built into all poor-quality goods.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy. — Antanas Mockus Copy Share Image
I think if you see that no one is going to laugh at you for it, I think the concept of living… — Mitch Leigh Copy Share Image
“Pick out the mirrored shards from your makeshift mask. Strip away the layers of lies from your ramshackle crown. Cut out cynicism… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“Some people grow older and more cynical. Some people become just the opposite. Life hurts without hope, and cynicism, once a luxury,… — William Norwich Copy Share Image
“It seems all spirits need theatrics, eh? Even Christ himself requires incense and holy water. We're a skeptical people. We need convincing.” — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication,… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're cool. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Maybe I am naive, but I don't think talking about the Holocaust with total and complete cynicism is possible for Israeli politicians.… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
The thing that worries me more than anything else is losing faith in the capacity of politics to change things. I don't… — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
“I believe that you are really a very good husband but that you are thoroughly ashamed of your own virtues. You are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Let's stop hiding behind a pseudo-respect of cultures, in a sickening relativism that's only a mask for our cowardice, our cynicism, and… — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
Be a light, not a judge, be a model not a critic. Little by little, your circle of influence will explode and… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
What all this posturing and fake glamor results in is a vast detachment and cynicism on the part of the artists. Since… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
I feel compelled not to pass on a vision of bleakness, destruction or cynicism. I want to tell the truth as I… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
The old adage, 'If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is' isn't always correct. In fact, the suspicion, cynicism,… — Richard Carlson Copy Share Image
We have to recognize we've got some big problems on race, just like we got still big problems on crime, just like… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I never think I feel cynical in general. Cynical is reality with an alternate spelling. I feel there's a gigantic amount of… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“All Hellenistic schools seem to define [wisdom] in approximately the same terms: first and foremost, as a state of perfect peace of… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
Eating at a new, highly recommended restaurant is like a Very Important Blind Date, a contract with uncertainty you enter into with… — Stuart Stevens Copy Share Image
“I’ve recently discovered what I suspected all along – cynicism is overrated and overvalued. It’s the shield people hide behind in the… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
“More and more, I felt that I was meeting people like Lee who didn't at all seem part of this modern world… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
There are certain reactions that you aren't allowed to show in Berlin, for example that you feel offended. If you do, the… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The cynic and the realist both see people and things for how they are, but the cynic still expects them to conform… — Elle Copy Share Image
The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people;… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
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