The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I know we journalists have a reputation for being cynics. We do. It's our job to question - everything. — Brooke Baldwin Copy Share Image
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“High above the noise and fear mongering of critics and cynics softly speaks your true self.” — Mollie Marti Copy Share Image
“Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“optimistic people didn’t write Pulitzer Prize-winning material—grumpy, pessimistic cynics did.” — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
“Yes, you will feel like giving up. Yes, your competitors will copy you. Yes, your critics will attack you. Yes, your cynics… — Sravani Saha Nakhro Copy Share Image
Romantics might like to think of themselves as being composed of stardust. Cynics might prefer to think of themselves as nuclear waste. — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed… — Stephen Colbert 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
It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The cynics are correct the sense of freewill is only that feeling which we have when we take the necessitated option that… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
“Cynics fooled themselves into thinking they had sussed out the worst-case scenarios and were invariably surprised by how life trumped them. Dreamers… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
“The Cynics emphasized that true happiness is not found in external advantages such as material luxury, political power, or good health. True… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Each of us must work to become a hardheaded realist, or else we risk wasting our time and energy on pursuing impossible… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Scratch the surface of any cynic, and you will find a wounded idealist underneath. Because of previous pain or disappointment, cynics make… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Cynics build no bridges; they make no discoveries; no gaps are spanned by them. Cynics may pride themselves in being realistic in… — Paul L. McKay Copy Share Image
He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Don't let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Cynics always say no. Saying yes leads to knowledge. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
“Perhaps he did not know himself - like all these intellectual cynics...” — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall. — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“He see's the world the way cynics do; Not looking for false Hope.” — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
To me the cynics are the ones in the boardrooms with the reports from the focus groups. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance. — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“So, leave the cynics be. Out-cynic them. Step into that elsewhere. Believe that your story is bigger than yourself. In” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
The cynics were watchdogs terrifying malefactors. They tried to expose falseness and conceit. That's why their name is still spoken with a… — Petr Skrabanek Copy Share Image
“Love doesn't always make sense. And that's the great beauty of it, the great mystery–the thing cynics who scoff at so-called 'insta-love'… — Brooke Cumberland Copy Share Image
Trying to prove yourself to cynics is an absolute waste of your time. Making time with people who care about you is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Cynics know the answers without having penetrated deeply enough to know the questions. When challenged by mysterious truths, they marshall 'facts. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
