The aphorism sometimes casts off cynicism and expresses strong feeling. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
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
Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It's the same cynicism that [Strange]… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At a time of pervasive cynicism about our government, it is more important than ever to invest in restoring confidence in our… — Laphonza Butler 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
It's not often that you get to play somebody that has absolutely no cynicism or is not judgmental in any way. — Paul Rudd Copy Share Image
“After I charge their brains with my own brand of skeptical electricity, I unleash them—the New Cynics—upon a world that is slowly… — Kristopher Jansma Copy Share Image
As I was walking up the stair. I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish, I… — Hughes Mearns Copy Share Image
I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want… — John Lennon 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
That so much of our experience, or the stereotype which passes for it should be dealt with by means of the short… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“Cynicism is overrated, and far too easy. In small doses, cynicism--like irony--provides an essential tempering quality. But to wallow in it, and… — Michael Perry Copy Share Image
“These leaders are like the drug lords who ruled America’s ghettos in the crack age, men (and some women) interested in just… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“Generic cynicism makes us feel hip and alternative even as we slip along with our fellow citizens into a morass of indifference.… — Timothy Snyder 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
“FAITH. Too many people have no faith. They are cynical. “This leadership training and personal development stuff doesn’t work.” Or “I’m too… — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
“When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Don’t cheat people out of loving you, and love them back - right where they stand. And if they turn away, let… — Jenna Brooks Copy Share Image
“We shall, as we ripen in grace, have greater sweetness towards our fellow Christians. Bitter-spirited Christians may know a great deal, but… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself… — Jack Heffron Copy Share Image
“Empire had a clutch of missiles which were generally reckoned to be inoperable, and probably were politically unusable anyway because they were… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his dark monarchy. They are his… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
“One simple answer is that there has been a massive rise in the incidence of sanctimony and smugness among the successful that… — Brian Barry Copy Share Image
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