Baseball, of all sports, and maybe of all human endeavors, has no room for cynicism. — Howard Frank Mosher Copy Share Image
…a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed... — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
“Your every ill-thought, secreted hate, cynical and vicious judgment you carry is meant only for you.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Buying a lie is one thing, giving it away for free is quite another. — Douglas Horton Copy Share Image
Cynicism lost and hope won. For the first time, the government of Quebec will be led by a woman. — Pauline Marois Copy Share Image
Cynicism is no more mature than naïveté. You're no more mature, just more burned. — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy. — Patricia Ireland 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
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
“In English we say: fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. In Naskarian we say: it's not… — Abhijit Naskar 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
The low-hanging fruit is cynicism and pessimism, and it's there if you want it. You can reach out and you can grab… — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
I don't think you can ever be ahead of your time with cynicism about that subject. No, I don't think it was… — Joe Dante 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
My gaze flew to him once more,noting the cigarette he set down even as he exhaled a long plume of white."Why are… — Jeaniene Frost 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
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
Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“What if good institutions were in fact the product of good intentions? What if the cynicism that is supposed to be rigor… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“All I ask of you is one thing: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism — it’s my least favorite quality and… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Now, he told me, I could see what humanity was worth. It could form the conception of justice, but could not trust… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall, and do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. Don't be a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“But if all maximizing models are really arguing is that “people will always seek to maximize something,” then they obviously can’t predict… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving the room.… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
I think that for those of us who come from oppressed backgrounds and who do our work in marginalized communities, recovering our… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“Their cynicism was complete and terrible: details, like the lying signs outside the underground chambers of the crematoriums that announced in seven… — Miklós Nyiszli 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
“Dantes had entered the Chateau d’If with the round, open, smiling face of a young and happy man, with whom the early… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Those were the terms in which my parents, keen for me to grow up well grounded in cynicism, explained things to me.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
