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
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
Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
“Someone told me I’m a cynical fatalist but I prefer the term realist.” — Wade Kelly 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
“I watched him, sardonic, cynical. A great poet, truly, yet unkind. The gifts of our nature seem not to modify the manner… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Why is it we don’t intervene in the bureaucracy?” asks Chris Bobel, the gender studies scholar, who has noted that many young… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food. — Dean McLaughlin 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
I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I think there's a weapon of cynicism to say, 'Protest doesn't work. Organizing doesn't work. Y'all are a bunch of hippies. You… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
I think utopianism and eschatology are really two sides of the same coin. They both assume that some massively transformative event is… — Phillip Sandifer Copy Share Image
Can-do Americans courageously go about their duty in Iraq - mostly unafraid that a culture of 2,000 years, the reality of geography,… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this: 1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Lay down your cynicism, and believe in the transformational power of love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit. — Cecil B. DeMille Copy Share Image
Never surrender to cynicism, even if you suspect it would get the critics on your side.Never surrender to cynicism, even if you… — Roselyne Bosch Copy Share Image
I think that every moment you succumb to cynicism, you're taking energy away from change. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall, and do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. Don't be a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The increasingly cynical court thought Arthur, "hypocritical, as all decent men must be if you assume decency cannot exist.” — T.H. White Copy Share Image
