For me, being in shape means, like, not having cynicism out-weigh optimism on a daily basis. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any monoprix store. it's built into all poor-quality goods.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
You see, in this world there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons. — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy. — Antanas Mockus Copy Share Image
Caution and cynicism are safe, but soldiers don't want to follow cautious cynics. — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The way people treat each other in society is cruel but in retrospect history shows the cynicism is evident in all. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
It is a testament to our naïveté about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values.… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
Cynicism is the largest obstacle to social change. Cynicism is dangerous because people throw up their hands and say, "Well it's not… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Say as little as possible, hope some of the undecideds like your teeth better than the other guy’s—that’s usually the way this… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - and hell heaven.… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What appears bad manners, an ill temper or cynicism is… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
“If grass grows and withers, it can only mean that it is part of a greater thing, which is even more real;… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“For a year, Johnny lived the new, brutal truth that he was on his own. But that's the way it was. What… — John Hart Copy Share Image
You wouldn't know it, from some of the things I've said over the years, but I like people... I do... I like… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Millions of small changes can be done, and through that, there can be a bigger impact because anybody can talk to another… — Eugene Hutz Copy Share Image
Be a light, not a judge, be a model not a critic. Little by little, your circle of influence will explode and… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Let's stop hiding behind a pseudo-respect of cultures, in a sickening relativism that's only a mask for our cowardice, our cynicism, and… — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
What all this posturing and fake glamor results in is a vast detachment and cynicism on the part of the artists. Since… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
I'm going to work with Dan Clowes. After Charlie Kaufman, it's hard to fill up the gap. It's hard to find somebody… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
“To be cynical is to be distant. While offering a false intimacy of being "in the know," cynicism actually destroys intimacy. It… — Paul E. Miller Copy Share Image
...for the contingent out there who sneer at heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman and Captain America, those icons who still, at… — Greg Rucka Copy Share Image
Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The wise screen writer is he who wears his second-best suit, artistically speaking, and doesn't take things too much to heart. He… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“[T]he enduring problem for liberals, as for everyone else, is not whether history will judge them wise or foolish regarding the war… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“Didn't Chains tell you about the Golden Theological Principle?" "The what?" "The single congruent aspect of every known religion. The one shared,… — Scott Lynch 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
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