Cynicism makes you feel smart, I know it, even when you aren't smart. — Richard Ford 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
“If this was cynical, then we must allow that all courtship is cynical.” — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism. — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not… — Christina Stead 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
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've stopped bothering getting my hopes up and watching them die when all of it's just in my head. I expect nothing… — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I think moral outrage is born not of anger but of love. It comes from the highest in us, not from a… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Criticism, maybe cynicism, is just rampant in music, in creativity. Everybody has a perception and a set of opinions based on what… — Rob Halford Copy Share Image
“In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
The church seeks to help form people who can risk being peaceful in a violent world, risk being kind in a competitive… — John Howard Yoder Copy Share Image
Such techniques, including meta-discursive stuff, self-reference, irony, black humor, cynicism, grotesquerie and shock, it would be safe to say that television or… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness - that is, the improbable - with becoming, and to coerce… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been… — Robert Teeter Copy Share Image
All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
There are many different kinds of doubt. When we doubt the future, we call it worry. When doubt other people we call… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The biggest hurdle that our communities have is cynicism - saying it's a done deal, who cares; there's no point to voting.… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
“If you try to convert someone, it will never be to effect his salvation but to make him suffer like yourself, to… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I’ve become arrogant, but simply because I reached a point in my… — José Micard Teixeira Copy Share Image
I realize that idealism is out of sync with the cynicism of our age. Skepticism has come to be synonymous with sophistication,… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
It takes the youth, really; they're the ones that should have the energy, it shouldn't be the old geezers, but the signs… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“To most people any radical change is even more odious than cynicism. The only way between the horns of dilemma is to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Remember what we’re fighting for.” “I’m trying. Today I helped to kill Angel Porrua. What was he fighting for?” “Are you serious?… — J.G. Ballard 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
You happened to me,You scare me to death, you know. When you stormed into my life, you turned everything inside out. You… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
“Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster.” — Noelle Oxenhandler Copy Share Image
Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism. — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
“Don't give up your greatness because of someone's cynicism or narrowness of mind.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
With but a single exception, foxes too enjoy the chase. — The Covert Comic Aka John Alejandro King Copy Share Image
“You're such an optimist Kane -- that's your problem. You only end up disappointed.” — Paul Grist Copy Share Image
