“What a cynic would call a coincidence, Amy called a clear answer, and more than an answer--a sign of the love of… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle. — Anonymous 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
“It's not a shame to trust another, shame is to grow cynical and bitter.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I know life is not rainbows and butterflies, but I’d rather die delusional than being a mature cynic.” — Abhaidev 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
the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic. — George Berkeley 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
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
“Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
For the cynic, art is defined through money. That, of course, is a very sad statement. But an artist is someone who… — Wolfgang Beltracchi 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
The joy and the pain for me is about tightroping between being a cynic and being a romantic - the tug between… — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
Cynicism was a school in Greece - the Cynics. Diogenes is a famous Cynic. There was a strong belief in nihilism and… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“A thousand years from now nobody is going to know that you or I ever lived. The cynic is right, but lazy.… — Jackson Burnett Copy Share Image
Justice is always naive and self-confident; believing that it will immediately win once recognized. That is the reason why the forces of… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
Essentially, the [New York] Philharmonic is just like any other orchestra-they all have the spirit of kids, and if you scratch away… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
A giant as we hoped, in truth, a dwarf; A barrel of slop that shines on Lethe's wharf', Which at first seemed… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
“No one is a greater schoolgirl in spirit than a cynic. Cynics cannot relinquish the rubbish they were taught as children: they… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Many teachers are concerned about the amount of material they must cover in a course. One cynic suggested a formula: since, he… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
The wise screen writer is he who wears his second-best suit, artistically speaking, and doesn't take things too much to heart. He… — Raymond Chandler 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
“We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers, things standing shall fall, but the moving ever shall stay.” — Basava Copy Share Image
“When did you become a cynic?” Sam asked. Evie smiled. “When I found out I was a little girl.” — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
“I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You're such a cynic," Molly said. "I think cynics are playful and cute. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I always believe that it's better to be idealistic in love than be that cynic. That's the only way to survive a… — Sonam Kapoor Copy Share Image
Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. — Ambrose Bierce 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
A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye. — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
…a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed... — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
“The prosaic fact of the universe's existence single-handedly defeats the pragmatist and the cynic.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“Life was very sad if there were not - and unbearably so if one's experience with romantic love turned one into an… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
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