I have a very low regard for cynics. I think it's the beginning of dying. — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
“Cynicism is a boring and dull old man’s disease people have no business getting when they’re young.” — Erika Lopez Copy Share Image
I know how tempting such cynicism may be. But I still think the cynics are wrong. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“You know that inside every cynic, there’s just a very disappointed idealist?” — Roe Horvat Copy Share Image
There are no letters in the mailbox And there are no grapes upon the vine And there are no chocolates in your… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I find it actually the height of romance to legally bind yourself to someone because you're really taking care of someone, and… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I've always been optimistic. And I have a feeling that it happened because of going to all those movies with my grandmother… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
The nature of journalism has been the enemy of idealism and the source of cynicism among American reporters and editors throughout our… — Richard Harwood Copy Share Image
However vain our entire political class or organizations are, in the name of cynicism we cannot bend towards authoritarian populism. — Padmapriya Janakiraman Copy Share Image
“I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“So they layered cynicism atop their longing, and it was something like laying laughter over the darkness — self-preservation of an uglier stripe.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
About California... "I thought it was an appalling place. Then I went through a period of being amused by it. Now it's… — Alex Kingston Copy Share Image
Choosing to live a life in a cynical negative matter, doubting every opportunity, and doubting every God-given ability that you possess, is… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
The biggest hurdle that our communities have is cynicism - saying it's a done deal, who cares; there's no point to voting.… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
What's important is how we use our time on this earth, not how conspicuously we give our money away. What's important is… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
Italy is a country which is willing to submit itself to the worst governments. It is, as we know, a country ruled… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
He didn't like very many people any more, or very many things either. He preferred not to be this way, but there… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“Remember what we’re fighting for.” “I’m trying. Today I helped to kill Angel Porrua. What was he fighting for?” “Are you serious?… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“When we try to understand something, more often than not, we kill it, and now I can feel the dangers of this… — Martin Page Copy Share Image
“To most people any radical change is even more odious than cynicism. The only way between the horns of dilemma is to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It takes the youth, really; they're the ones that should have the energy, it shouldn't be the old geezers, but the signs… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
"Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“On revient toujours a son premier amour." It sounds like a cynicism to-day. As if we really meant: "On ne revient jamais… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
