Cynicism makes you feel smart, I know it, even when you aren't smart. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
The aphorism sometimes casts off cynicism and expresses strong feeling. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
There's a lot of cynicism. Let's really enjoy Christmas, with all that's going on in the world. — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
“Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster.” — Noelle Oxenhandler Copy Share Image
“It appeared as if the whole world was one elaborate system, opposed to justice and kindness, and set to making cruelty and… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“I hate the world. Everything comes into it so clean and goes out so dirty. (from COVER CHARGE - currently not listed)” — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“...[we] has left nothing durable to signalize his stay upon this planet. [we]eventually dies to the honest regret of [our] associates.” — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Just know that it is impossible to feel joy while you are feeling cynicism. It is like wearing tight shoes and trying… — Suzanne Finnamore Copy Share Image
I always feel the cynicism is reality with maybe an alternate spelling or something because I feel that I have real perspective… — Woody Allen 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
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, risking… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is… — Alan Thicke Copy Share Image
Big Brother is not the only danger facing the country. Another is the rising tide of distrust, the corrosive spread of cynicism,… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether… — Russell Lynes 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
“I dreamed about the future because that's what people persuade you to do when you're a kid, but that's the biggest lie… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Speaking as someone who bought the party line for far too long, you would be amazed what you can believe if you… — John Cole Copy Share Image
“As for the belief that humanity is mostly good, Secular humanism, when in that alignment, always presumes the existence of a higher… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“I’m consciously shedding the assumption that a skeptical point of view is the most intellectually credible. Intellect does not function in opposition… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed,… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“Uncouth, clannish, lumbering about the confines of Space and Time with a puzzled expression on his face and a handful of things… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Golf cannot be played in anger, or in any mood of emotiional excess. Half the golf balls struck by amateurs are hit… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
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