“What's so praiseworthy about entrusting your sense of what's right to someone else?” — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I've stopped bothering getting my hopes up and watching them die when all of it's just in my head. I expect nothing… — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Numbness and cynicism, I suspect, are more often the products of frustrated compassion than of evil intentions.” — David Hilfiker Copy Share Image
What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Closure' - reassurance for the weak-kneed that their futile anguish has been leavened by a minor illusion of being in control …… — Mark Rogerson Copy Share Image
Don't confuse my point of view with cynicism. The real cynics are the ones who tell you that everything's gonna be all… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I have a lot of friends that take that position of extreme cynicism, and I just can't let myself go to that… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“Maybe your empathy's just a comforting lie, you ever think of that? Maybe you think you know how the other person feels… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
In my opinion I think there's a difference between skepticism and cynicism; I tend to avoid cynicism because I feel it can… — Tyler Henry Copy Share Image
“This is some sort of joke, isn't it?" asks Hunt, staring at the flawless blue sky and distant fields. I cough as… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I don't know why there's not more activism today. I do think that your generation is twenty times smarter than our generation… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“I had always believed, and not only out of cynicism, that a man and a woman could tell in the first ten… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
If you're going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like 'Purple Rain' and 'Thriller' and those kind… — Dave Sitek Copy Share Image
Enforced religion breeds precisely what it most fears: rebellion against religion, cynicism about religion, skepticism about its claims, and, as a consequence,… — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
Obasanjo has openly endorsed violence as a means of governance, embraced and empowered individuals whose avowed declarations, confessions and acts are cynically… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“More and more, I felt that I was meeting people like Lee who didn't at all seem part of this modern world… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“All Hellenistic schools seem to define [wisdom] in approximately the same terms: first and foremost, as a state of perfect peace of… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
Eating at a new, highly recommended restaurant is like a Very Important Blind Date, a contract with uncertainty you enter into with… — Stuart Stevens Copy Share Image
“I’ve recently discovered what I suspected all along – cynicism is overrated and overvalued. It’s the shield people hide behind in the… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
“I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature… — Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
You happened to me,You scare me to death, you know. When you stormed into my life, you turned everything inside out. You… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
“Fukuyama’s thesis that history has climaxed with liberal capitalism may have been widely derided, but it is accepted, even assumed, at the… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“Why is it we don’t intervene in the bureaucracy?” asks Chris Bobel, the gender studies scholar, who has noted that many young… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
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