“JACK: For heaven's sake, don't try to be cynical. It's perfectly easy to be cynical. ALGERNON: My dear fellow, it isn't easy… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids.… — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
“So basically you're sticking around to watch us all fuck up ?" "Yes. It's one of life's few guaranteed constants.” — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
A world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The cynicism doesn't come across in the final; it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
“Idealists and reformers all become executioners in their turn. The road to utopia ends with the steps of the scaffold, the endless… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“Try persuading the world not to cut its throat for half a decade or more...and it'll begin to dawn on you that… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
Everything is cyclical. Historical eras go through times of intense cynicism, broken by periods of intense idealism. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
A deep cynicism is taking hold of the country, with more and more Americans convinced that big money calls the shots in… — John Sarbanes Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word "cynic"… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Each of us must work to become a hardheaded realist, or else we risk wasting our time and energy on pursuing impossible… — Colin Powell 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
The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
“That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
The idea that women are actually getting some jobs - whoopee. I can't say that I celebrate it without a hint of… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
“Now the situation could be resolved, and we could put this behind us -- both the awkward misunderstandings and the misguided attempts… — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
For all the cynicism about the media, it is a noble profession. Most enter it with a strong conviction that sunlight is… — Wes Streeting Copy Share Image
“It's good to be cynical," he said. "That is, if you know when to stop. Most of the things that we're all… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“One-and-twenty sorts of birds,” said Ser Kyle. “One-and-twenty sorts of bird droppings,” said Ser Maynard. “You have no poetry in your heart,… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“We are in a place of deep cynicism, but that is rarely acknowledged, because so many of us residing within this disordered… — Elizabeth Scalia Copy Share Image
Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism. — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow's world can not exist without morals, without faith and memory. Cynicism, narrow interests and cowardice must not occupy our lives.” — King Michael of Romania Copy Share Image
When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then,… — Samuel Ullman Copy Share Image
Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some… — Anna Faris Copy Share Image
It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If I'm jetlagging, and I've missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you're supposed to cry,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“The atmosphere was electrified by the orgasm with which the strong and secure are overcome when confronted with the visible frailty of… — Paul Leppin Copy Share Image
I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Its [Dreams from My Father] also a reflection about how we might start a better conversation in our democracy about how to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A learned County Court judge in a book of memoirs recently said that the overwhelming amount of his time on the bench… — 1st Baron Greene Wilfred Greene Copy Share Image
I think despair and cynicism are two different things. On the flip side of hope is despair. Belief and doubt are the… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Whoever we may be, whatever our immediate interest, however much we carry baggage from our past, however much we have been caught… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The European arguments against the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act demonstrate that "some Europeans have never lost faith in appeasement as a way of… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
“I thought back to Meg’s advice about Hemingway sentences—simple declarative statements that showed the truth and distilled the meaning. My first attempt… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“shall I spend much of your time pointing out the degree to which televisual values influence the contemporary mood of jaded weltschmerz,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no. All you can hope for is to make… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people don't like working with children. I actually adore… — Michelle Forbes Copy Share Image
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