“Skeptics are always marked by their total lack of skepticism towards whatever position they are defending.” — Steve Madison Copy Share Image
Loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering, or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes, it does a… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
A cynic might conclude that the real purpose of the $500 million-a-year implant business is the implantation of fat in the bellies… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.” — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
“You lose a certain type of innocence when you experience this type of kindness. You lose your right to be a jaded… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other… — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be… — Uell Stanley Andersen Copy Share Image
A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
“Cynicism places the cynic at the center seat of judgement with the self appointed authority to criticize and condemn. ” — Jayce O'Neal Copy Share Image
The idea of The Boy Vs. The Cynic is the tension between the wide-eyed optimism in youthfulness where you think nothing can… — John Reuben Zappin Copy Share Image
A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“It all depends on what people you're talking about helping. That's the wonderful think about just about every religion on the planet… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
“A positive person discusses possibilities. A negative person discusses problems. A cynic is oblivious to positivity and negativity.” — Debasish Mridha 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
If you're regularly willing to give a critique, but not willing to take one, you're not a leader, you're a cynic. — Ed Stetzer Copy Share Image
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still… — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
…a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed... — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to. — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
“The truth is, I pretend to be a cynic, but I really am a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something she… — Joanna Hoffman Copy Share Image
