Cynicism is the easiest of all reactions, right? But it's also so disappointing and self-defeating. — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
“If you're always worried about crushing the ants beneath you... you won't be able to walk.” — Kentaro Miura Copy Share Image
All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails." — Yuri Orlov Copy Share Image
“It seems all spirits need theatrics, eh? Even Christ himself requires incense and holy water. We're a skeptical people. We need convincing.” — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Maybe I am naive, but I don't think talking about the Holocaust with total and complete cynicism is possible for Israeli politicians.… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're cool. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication,… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The thing that worries me more than anything else is losing faith in the capacity of politics to change things. I don't… — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
“Saturday is the mightiest day of the week. It's unshakably, overwhelmingly superior. Not only is it a day off of school, the… — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
“She would put her “naïve American optimism” toward making herself indispensable to him, and she’d win him. Because naïve American optimism beat… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
“Cynicism is extremely contagious, and the most pious among us cannot long endure its potency. The gullible should be on their guard,… — Mike Corbett Copy Share Image
I feel compelled not to pass on a vision of bleakness, destruction or cynicism. I want to tell the truth as I… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
The old adage, 'If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is' isn't always correct. In fact, the suspicion, cynicism,… — Richard Carlson Copy Share Image
People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“Results are their own propaganda. The vast majority of the people are free, prosperous, and safe under the Phoenix Society's rule. They… — Matthew Graybosch Copy Share Image
Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's leaders to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Why is it that with women, some kink, some vulnerability of the sex, is always presumed to lie at the heart of… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
I never think I feel cynical in general. Cynical is reality with an alternate spelling. I feel there's a gigantic amount of… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
We have to recognize we've got some big problems on race, just like we got still big problems on crime, just like… — Barack Obama 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
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
I love things that are brave enough to be nakedly about what our lives are actually built of, when you're wild about… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
People confuse the word cynicism with the word skepticism. One is “you’re not gonna pay attention to anything, think everything’s screwed up,… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are… — Jean Anouilh 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
