As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy. — William Greider 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
Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism. — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
There is so much trouble in coming into the world, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Young people have realised that an artist is in charge of what they're doing - this crazy cynicism that artists were puppets… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
“Better not to find out whether or not the rumors are true, I say. Better find the other bastard and skin him.” — Angelo Tsanatelis Copy Share Image
“I'm getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old… — Charles Sheffield Copy Share Image
Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and… — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
A developer is someone who wants to build a house in the woods. An environmentalist is someone who already has a house… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and… — Mike Zimmer Copy Share Image
But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this that you call… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you observe that today's controversies often reveal not relevance but the clash of the untaught with the wrongly taught, and when… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“How tolerable misfortunes appear when they affect only other people! How strong the human body seems when it's another man's flesh that… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
“When the landed gentry cut up a seed cake for tea it makes no difference to the cake which of them holds… — M. John Harrison 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
When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I think that cynicism is the enemy. Cynicism thinks it knows how things work. "Oh yeah, you know how that works." I… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“I take in his smooth cheeks, his rough chin and jaw, the developing wrinkles at the corners of his eyes. 'We fall… — Jane Lotter Copy Share Image
“The real question I am asking here is the one Marcuse asked in the sixties. How does a way of life break… — Rick Roderick Copy Share Image
Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the… — Richard Holt Hutton Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us. The disappointments of life, the injustices,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them.… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“Curmudgeons speak up because they have to, because it’s become critically important for them to tell the truth as they see it.… — Lionel Fisher Copy Share Image
If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape… — Alain de Botton 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
