“Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster.” — Noelle Oxenhandler Copy Share Image
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come. — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it's cynicism. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
It is cynicism, and not idealism, that is generally the mark of youthful immaturity, or rather it is the cynic who is… — Andrew Sarris Copy Share Image
My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
What seems conceit, bad manners or cynicism is always a sign of things no ear have heard, no eyes have seen. You… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
“Some people grow older and more cynical. Some people become just the opposite. Life hurts without hope, and cynicism, once a luxury,… — William Norwich Copy Share Image
“Pick out the mirrored shards from your makeshift mask. Strip away the layers of lies from your ramshackle crown. Cut out cynicism… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
At a time of pervasive cynicism about our government, it is more important than ever to invest in restoring confidence in our… — Laphonza Butler Copy Share Image
It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It's the same cynicism that [Strange]… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
“I believe that you are really a very good husband but that you are thoroughly ashamed of your own virtues. You are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
“The best of myself, that point of light which distances me from everything, I owe to my infrequent encounters with a few… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
On the other hand, with a sense of the sacred, one grows in understanding and truth. The Holy Spirit becomes his frequent… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
“I'm not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to… — Kenneth Cain Copy Share Image
“Politicians.Their first thoughts are always with the loved ones of the British serviceman tragically killed in action. And whether they'll vote New… — William Donaldson Copy Share Image
“Preserve the part of you that's still human. Avoid falling into ecstatic raptures and trying to impose the Light on people when… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
Well, the good news is that there's quite a lot of cynicism about major labels within radio and the press. I think… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
“Uncouth, clannish, lumbering about the confines of Space and Time with a puzzled expression on his face and a handful of things… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
I've done four records now, and your idea of what it's going to be for that record is never what it ends… — Sarah Jaffe Copy Share Image
“The problem, David, is your cynicism only runs one direction. If somebody comes on TV and says everything is great and wonderful,… — David Wong Copy Share Image
I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age. Girls, or a… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Although most people never overcome the habit of berating the world for their difficulties, those who are too weak to make a… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
“His cynicism - a veteran's cynicism - was a thing that disturbed him all the time. It seemed to him after the… — David Guterson 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
“[James M. Buchanan] directed hostility toward college students, public employees, recipients of any kind of government assistance, and liberal intellectuals. His intellectual… — Nancy MacLean Copy Share Image